Representing Predictive Solutions with PMML

Speaker: Dr. Alex Guazzelli

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Registration, pizza, networking
7:00 – 7:10 Announcements, job openings, book drawing for members
7:10 Talk

Event Details

Data mining scientists work hard to analyze historical data and to build the best predictive solutions out of it. IT engineers, on the other hand, are usually responsible for bringing these solutions to life, by recoding them into a format suitable for operational deployment. Given that data mining scientists and engineers tend to inhabit different information worlds, the process of moving a predictive solution from the scientist’s desktop to the operational environment can get lost in translation and take months. The advent of data mining specific open standards such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) has turned this view upside down: the deployment of models can now be achieved by the same team who builds them, in a matter of minutes.

In this talk, I will not only provide the business rationale behind PMML, but also describe its main components. Besides being able to describe the most common modeling techniques, as of version 4.0, released in 2009, PMML is also capable of handling complex pre-processing tasks. As of version 4.1, released in December 2011, PMML has also incorporated complex post-processing to its structure as well as the ability to represent model ensemble, segmentation, chaining, and composition within a single language element. This combined representation power, in which an entire predictive solution (from pre-processing to model(s) to post-processing) can be represented in a single PMML file, attests to the language’s refinement and maturity.

For more information on more information see http://www.dmg.org and http://www.zementis.com

Speaker Bio

Dr. Alex Guazzelli has co-authored the first book on PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language. Entitled “PMML in Action”, the book is now on its 2nd Edition and is currently available on Amazon. As the Vice President of Analytics at Zementis, Inc., Dr. Guazzelli is responsible for developing core technology and analytical solutions for UPPI (the Universal PMML Plug-in) and ADAPA, a PMML-based predictive decisioning platform that combines predictive analytics and business rules. Prior to joining Zementis, Dr. Guazzelli was involved in not only building but also deploying predictive solutions for large financial and telecommunication institutions around the globe. In academia, Dr. Guazzelli worked with data mining, neural networks, expert systems and brain theory. His work in brain theory and computational neuroscience has appeared in many peer reviewed publications. At Zementis, Dr. Guazzelli and his team have been involved in a myriad of modeling projects for financial, telco, health-care, gaming, chemical, and manufacturing industries.

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