Agenda

Day 1

8:30am-9am: Check-in and Breakfast
9am-10:15am: Technical Session 1 - Overview; Foundations, equations, techniques, and terminologies
10:15am-11:15am: Technical Session 2 - Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
11:15am-11:30am: Break
11:30am-12:30pm: Guest Speaker; Yoav Freund - Mapping Big Data
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-2:30pm: Guest Speaker; Tamara Sipes - Temporal Data Mining
2:30pm-3:45pm: Technical Session 3 - Probability Graph Models and Bayesian Nets
3:45pm-4pm: Break
4pm-5pm: Technical Session 4 - Random Forests™

8:30am-9am: Check-in and Breakfast
9am-10am: Guest Speaker; James Fowler - Social Network Analysis
10am-11:15am: Technical Session 5 - Matrix Factorization and Collaborative Filtering
11:15am-11:30am: Break
11:30am-12:30am: Technical Session 6 - Support Vector Machines (SVM)
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-2:45pm: Technical Session 7 - Visualization
2:45pm-3pm: Break
3pm-4pm: Guest Speaker; Dean Abbott - Overview of Text Mining
4pm-5pm: Hands-on Session 8 - Hadoop on Gordon and Closing Technical Session