Cogent Company Event
The Center for Decision and Information Technologies at the University of North Texas, along with its sponsors, including Cogent Company, will host its Spring Seminar at Las Colinas Country Club on Friday, May 17th. Join us to hear from specialists in using algorithms and work flow to make new information from old data. We'll discuss the newest concepts in applying mathematics and statistical concpets in multiple industries. We will hear from several speakers, including...
- Utilizing Dynamic Data for Supply Chain Management. Mark Schwartz. Bloomberg. Bloomberg is news, data, analytics, and insight. Learn how Bloomberg, a global information company involved in many aspects of international business — has used data and technology to create a product to help manage and mitigate risk in managing many companies’ very crucial activity – the Supply Chain.
- Actionable Text Analytics: Leveraging Unstructured Text for Competitive Advantage. Nick Evangelopolous, Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, University of North Texas. Ph.D. in Business - Decision Sciences, Washington State University, In addition to high-Volume and high-Velocity, Big Data is also characterized by Variety of data types. After being overlooked by analysts for years, unstructured text is now emerging as a usable data type in Big Data Analytics. Methods for Text Analytics are continuously evolving and related software solutions are becoming increasingly available. But to what extent are Text Analytics results actionable? This presentation will explore the potential of Latent Semantic Analysis, a method for topic extraction from unstructured text data, to produce actionable results that offer competitive advantage. Two case studies will be presented, including (i) customer segmentation from open-ended customer survey data, and (ii) identification of competitors' advantage from unstructured notes taken by CRM employees.
The Seminar will be held at Las Colinas Country Club
located at 4400 N. O'Connor Road in Irving, TX (Directions below). Check-in will begin at 8:00am with the first presentation beginning at 8:30am.
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