Beating the Best in the Santander Bank Customer Value Prediction Competition

Beating the World's Best in the Santander Bank Customer Value Prediction Competition

Dr. Alastair Muir has been using advanced analytics in management consulting engagements around the world for over fifteen years.

He will show how to make a presentation to the executive on the project, to be followed by how to do the detective work necessary to create high performance, useful, and explainable models for an online banking application. The journey includes R, Keras, LIME, and TensorFlow.

From the Kaggle challenge, "According to Epsilon research, 80% of customers are more likely to do business with you if you provide personalized service. Banking is no exception."

1 hour with questions and discussion (and a door prize!)

Bio - Alastair Muir, PhD, MBB

He combines operations research, customer demand patterns, product and supply chain design, process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, data science, and Business Intelligence. His business improvement process begins with an understanding of your most important business problems and ends with a meaningful and implementable plan for process change.

He has delivered operational excellence, business solutions and strategies to Energy, Resource and Manufacturing companies in diverse, multicultural and international settings.

• Over 20 years of experience in Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, R&D, Fraud Detection, Risk Assessment, Engineering, Nuclear
• Lead development of Operational Excellence programs and governance for Fortune 50 companies
• Cost reductions and revenue enhancement >450$M
• Coached, mentored, and trained over 4,000 GE leaders. Instructor at GE’s corporate training facility in Crotonville, NY.
• Business Strategy Development – restructuring analysis of 300,000 people quoted by CEO in Wall Street Journal
• Conducted briefings and strategic planning meetings with federal cabinet ministers and C-level executive.
• Project management with global teams in 14 countries worldwide
• “Lean Six Sigma Statistics”, McGraw-Hill 2006, defines the organizational requirements of a successful operational excellence program at the executive level. It includes the lessons learned for conducting successful transactional improvement projects.
• Patented EDGE AI for solid state toxic gas detection

This event is supported by Cenovus Energy and Pacific Institutes for the Mathematical Sciences.