Announcing a new Meetup for The Chicago Web Analytics Meetup!

What: Chicago ASA 2009 Conference, honoring Avinash Kaushik

When: May 15,[masked]:00 AM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meetup Description: Announcing the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association's 2009 Conference, featuring amazing headliners such as Avinash Kaushik accepting the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year Award, Seth Grimes speaking on text mining, Kristen Nomura of Google, and Jim Sterne of the Web Analytics Association. Below is the conference program link and details: Please register directly at the Chicago ASA link below.

Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Time: 9:00am ? 5:00pm
Location: Leo Burnett Building, 35 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
(Corner of Wacker and Dearborn ? sign in at reception desk)



Registration Fees:
$95 for Chicago ASA Student members
$175 for Chicago ASA Chapter members
for Web Analytics Association members

$225 for non-members


Online Registration: https://www.123signup.com/calendar?Org=chicagoasa


http://www.chicagoasa.org/Workshops/e051509.htm

Conference Program

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Conference Welcome by John VanderPloeg, Conference VP
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Session One: Data Democracy - How Google is Bringing Math to the Masses Presenter: Kristen Nomura (Google)
10:45 a.m. ? 11:00 a.m Morning break
11:00 a.m. ? 12:00 p.m. Session Two: Measuring the Success of a Website - a Practical Application Presenter: Jim Sterne (Web Analytics Association)
12:00 p.m. ? 2:00 p.m. Lunch : Statistical Advocate of Year Award Ceremony Award Recipient: Avinash Kaushik (Google Analytics Evangelist and Author of Occam?s Razor analytics blog)
2:00 p.m. ? 3:00 p.m. Session Three: NetFlix Recommender Competition: Lessons Learned Presenter: Ces Bertino (NetFlix Competition Participant)
3:00 p.m. ? 3:15 p.m. Afternoon break
3:15 p.m. ? 4:15 p.m. Session Four: Statistical Applications in Text Analytics Presenter: Seth Grimes (Alta Plana Corporation)
4:15 p.m. ? 5:00 p.m. Question and answer session

Learn more here:
http://web.meetup.com/114/calendar/10354224/