HR.com and the Institute for Human Resources (IHR)

Webcasts and online HR certification in your specialty of HR. Select your program track and attend webcasts and virtual events for free. IHR focuses on education, online certification, and career development in the HR profession and currently covers 20 key HR verticals ranging from Workforce Planning and Analytics, Technology Enabled Learning, Social Media and Employee Communications, and others. ...

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Optimizing Customer Value by Analyzing Application Navigation Behavior

Vineet Singh is the engineering leader in Intuit’s Business Intelligence & Optimization organization. He leads teams working on data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, web analytics and advanced analytics. He has 30 years of experience in services and software/systems R&D with 14 years in industrial research labs (HP Labs, IBM Research, MCC, Hitachi America, and ...

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The Future is Different: Non-Stationarity and Regime Change

In the real world, predictions assuming that the past is a good predictor of the future are often wrong. History is only a rough guide. This talk will describe how one might model relevant possible futures at various levels of stress, and some approaches to calibrating such models including the effects of parameter drift (non-stationarity), jumps (regime changes), long histories, intended use of th...

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Predicting The Housing Market With Buyer & Seller Psychology

What if we could predict housing market movements before homes are sold or foreclosed? What can we learn by watching buyers and sellers during or even before the buying and selling process? And did you know that while FICO score is the most important determinant of mortgage approval, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you pay back your loan? There are hundreds of real-time housing mar...

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Uncertainty and Projections of the Demand for Mail

Projections for the demand for mail are important drivers of business decisions in the postal sector. For example, they support investment decisions and help determine the nature of regulatory controls. However, given the long term nature of such decisions and, in many instances, their "irreversibility", it is important to assess the uncertainty inherent in projecting mail volumes.

This pres...

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Big Data Decision-Making

The wonders of what data can do for an organization is measured in the productivity and competitiveness of their team's decisions. Some believe that more data is the key. I agree, but good decisions require more than just deriving intelligence from big data.

In this competitive and dynamic market, the need to socialize ideas with other teams, quickly correlate information across sources, and te...

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