The twenty-third in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, October 20, 2005, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, at the SAS Institute in Toronto.
Title: Do Numbers Lie? A Data Mining Practitioner’s Viewpoint
Speaker: Richard Boire, Boire Filler Group
The twenty-second in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Friday, April 22, 2005, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, at the SAS Institute in Toronto.
Title: Stratum Canada Clustering System
Speaker: Ken Krzywicki, TransUnion
The twenty-first in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars wase held on Friday, February 11, 2005, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the SAS Institute in Toronto.
Title: The 11th Commandment: Know thy Customer
Speaker: Michael Hurwich, The Foundation Group
The twentieth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Center in Toronto.
Title: Mathematical technologies in marketing models
Speaker: Victor Zurkowski, Generation5
The nineteenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Center in Toronto.
Title: Applications of Advanced Customer Behaviour Modelling Techniques
Speaker: Grigoris Karakoulas, infoAgora Inc.
The seventeenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, January 29, 2004, 10:00 - 11:30 am, at the SAS Canada Executive Briefing Center in Toronto.
Equifax Canada's Decision Solutions group presented their clustering tool, Equifax Credit Behavior Segmentation (ECBS).
Speakers: Craig MacSweyn & Thomas Higgins, Equifax Canada
The sixteenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto.
Title: "Decision Tree Predictive Models / Recent developments in OLE DB DM scripting for data mining models within databases."
Speaker: Dr Mamdouh Refaat, ANGOSS Software Corporation
The fifteenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Monday, June 2, 2003, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto.
Title: "A Hybrid Predictive Modeling Technique for Database Marketing"
Speaker: Zhen Mei, Principal, Analytics & Modeling, Manifold Data Mining Inc.
All statistics and biostatistics graduate students were invited to attend the Southern Ontario Statistics Graduate Student Seminar Day (SOSGSSD) held at the University of Western Ontario on May 26-27, 2003. This seminar day was co-sponsored by The University of Western Ontario, the Fields Institute, and the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada /
The fourteenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto.
Title: "Collateralized Debt Obligations Modelling"
Speakers: Anthony Vaz & Robert Kowara, Capital Markets Division, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
The thirteenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto.
Title: "Latent Variable Methods and their use in the Analysis of Large Databases"
Speaker: Dr. John MacGregor, Professor of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
The twelfth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, December 12, 2002, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the SAS Executive Briefing Centre, BCE Place, 181 Bay Street, Suite 2220, in Toronto.
Topic: "Fuzzy Data Mining System Modeling"
Speaker: Dr. I. Burhan Türksen, Professor, University of Toronto, and President, Information Intelligence Corporation
The eleventh in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, October 17, 2002, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto.
Are you interested to know the Outlook for Borrowing in Canada in Uncertain Times? Have you ever wondered how your property assessment value is generated? Would you have thought that statistical inference would have been used in the development of this value?
Special Topic: "Consumer Credit: A New Context. The Outlook for Borrowing in Canada in Uncertain Times"
Speaker: Alberta Cefis, Executive Vice President, Retail Lending Services, Scotiabank
Keynote Topic: "AVM: How to value over 3 million properties . . . every month!"
Speaker: Anthony Percaccio, Manager Research, Product Development - Property Values, Municipal Property Assessment Corporation
All statistics and biostatistics graduate students were invited to attend the Southern Ontario Statistics Graduate Student Seminar Day (SOSGSSD) at the University of Guelph on Wednesday, May 22, 2002. The guest speaker was Prof. Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University. This seminar day was co-sponsored by the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada / Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association (SORA).
The tenth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, February 14, 2002, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto. Rick Miller, Customer Relationship Management Leader, Amicus, and Vice-President, Electronic Commerce, CIBC, discussed "Customer Relationship Management and Customer Profitability".
The ninth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, September 27, 2001, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, at the SAS Canada Executive Briefing Centre in Toronto. Naeem Siddiqi, Business Solution Specialist - Risk, SAS Canada, discussed Smoke, Mirrors and Reject Inference.
The eighth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Wednesday, June 6, 2001, 2:00 - 4:30 pm, at the Royal bank Training Centre in Toronto. Alison Burnham, Risk Analyst, GE Capital Mortgage Insurance Canada, discussed Mortgage Scoring, Automated Underwriting, and the impact on underwriting process and portfolio risk.
All statistics and biostatistics graduate students were invited to attend the Southern Ontario Statistics Graduate Student Seminar Day (SOSGSSD) held at the University of Waterloo on May 11, 2001. This seminar day is co-sponsored by the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada / Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association (SORA).
Do you present statistical analysis results to senior management?
Do you sometimes have problems understanding your statisticians' technical jargon during presentations?
If so, you are invited to attend the seventh of a seminar series of Applied Financial Statistics and Marketing seminars sponsored by SORA (the Southern Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association). Co-sponsorship for these seminars is provided by Scotiabank and Royal Bank.
This practical seminar is targeted towards business people who would like to upgrade their skills and knowledge in Statistics. The examples used in this seminar will relate directly to the banking industry. For example, tests for differences due to gender, age, and card types among VISA card customers will be discussed.
The effectiveness of your presentation is important in capturing an audience's attention. Our speaker, Tamara Arenovich, will teach us some simple yet powerful statistical methods to design and develop useful models for decision making, and to present the results in an effective and intuitive manner.
The seventh in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto. Tamara Arenovich presented "Statistics 101", an introduction to statistical methods for the benefit of non-statisticians.
The sixth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Thursday, October 5, 2000, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at the Royal Bank Training Centre in Toronto. The speaker was Hugh Chipman, University of Waterloo; the topic was "Tree models: Roots and Recent Branches."
All statistics and biostatistics graduate students are invited to attend the Southern Ontario Statistics Graduate Student Seminar Day (SOSGSSD) to be held at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, September 6, 2000. This seminar day is co-sponsored by the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada / Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association (SORA), the Department of Statistics, and the Biostatistics Program in the Department of Public Health, University of Toronto.
The fifth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 2:00 - 4:30 pm at the National Trust Boardroom in Toronto. The speakers will be Chris Ralph, Senior Manager Market Segmentation, Bank of Montreal and Rogan Vleming, Senior Research Analyst Market Segmentation, Bank of Montreal; the topic was be "Evolving Segmentation Solutions with Genetic Algorithms."
The fourth in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 2:00 - 4:30 pm at the National Trust Boardroom in Toronto. The speaker was Mr Steve Earwaker, VP, Custom & Analytical Services, The NPD Group; the topic was "Brand Equity and Brand Loyalty Modeling - Modeling brand loyalty as a means of strategically building brand equity."
The third in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars was held on Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 2:00 - 4:30 pm at the National Trust Boardroom in Toronto. The speaker was Dr Alison Burnham of the McMaster Control Consortium, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, the topic was "Using latent variable methods to reduce dimensionality in large datasets."
The Bank of Nova Scotia hosted the second in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars on Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at the National Trust Boardroom in Toronto. The speaker was Tony Lea of Compusearch Micromarketing Data & Systems.
The Bank of Nova Scotia hosted the first in a series of Financial Statistics/Marketing seminars on Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at the National Trust Boardroom in Toronto. The speaker was Gary Saarenvirta of The Loyalty Group. Click here for more information. You can get copies of some of Gary's work online at http://www.db2mag.com/ . "The Intelligent Miner for Data Applications Guide" is at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/.
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