Full Name
John Elder
Job Title
Founder & Board Chair
Company
Elder Research, Inc.
Speaker Bio
Dr. John Elder founded Elder Research, America’s largest and most experienced data science consultancy in 1995. With offices in Charlottesville VA, Baltimore MD, Raleigh, NC, Washington DC, and London, they’ve solved hundreds of challenges for commercial and government clients by extracting actionable knowledge from all types of data. Dr. Elder co-authored three books — on practical data mining, ensembles, and text mining — two of which won “book of the year” awards. John has created data mining tools, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular workshop and keynote speaker.
Dr. Elder earned Engineering degrees from Rice and UVA, where he’s an Adjunct Professor. He was named by President Bush to serve 5 years on a panel to guide technology for national security. Lastly, John is grateful to be a follower of Christ and the father of five. https://www.elderresearch.com/people/john-f-elder-iv-ph-d/
Dr. Elder earned Engineering degrees from Rice and UVA, where he’s an Adjunct Professor. He was named by President Bush to serve 5 years on a panel to guide technology for national security. Lastly, John is grateful to be a follower of Christ and the father of five. https://www.elderresearch.com/people/john-f-elder-iv-ph-d/
Speaking At
Abstract
Andrew Barron got me into Data Science -- way before it was cool. That led to my starting – ~30 years ago – a consulting firm that now has ~150 scientists solving tough analytics problems. I’ll reveal 1) what it’s like to live off data, 2) the massive value statistical inference is delivering to essentially every field, and 3) practical issues that can derail our work. (Tales include: detecting tax fraud, timing the stock market, discovering a drug, assessing health, and predicting gas well failure.)
