The Predictive Analytics World Conference is taking place Feb 18-19, 2009 in San Francisco, CA and seems to have an interesting lineup of speakers (including one of the winners of this years Netflix Progress Prize). I’m going to be in the bay area during the week of Feb 15th, so I’m planning on checking out some of the talks. Data Wrangling readers can register using this code: datawranglingpaw09 and get 15% off the conference registration fee. Drop me a line if you are attending and want to meet up.

It also might be worth stopping by if you are an R user, as Mike E. Driscoll at Data Evolution mentioned:

The Bay Area R UseRs group is doing a free, co-located event on Wed evening of the conference — so if you’re interested in mingling with some PAW folks as well as some R users — you can sign up at: http://ia.meetup.com/67/calendar/9573566/

The organizers of the conference are coordinating a nice media blitz across several machine learning blogs; check out the post by Brendan O’Connor and John Langford’s interview at Machine Learning (Theory). I thought I would join in the fun by interviewing Eric about a few topics related to the conference, mostly focusing on customer modeling and machine learning in the business world.

Read on for the transcript of our email interview: (more…)

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