Prescriptive analytics: from data to action planning

on June 19, 2017 at 2:00 pm

Speaker : Catherine PLAISANT

The new frontier of visual analytics is prescriptive analytics, designed to present and explain recommendations and guide user actions. We will discuss an example of such interface, using the scenario of students mapping their academic plans. We explored the challenge of finding similar students, explore potential outcomes, review recommended temporal sequences of events that might help achieve users’ goals, and interactively assist them as they define a personalized action plan. Other usage scenarios include medical treatment formulating, customer retention, or sports coaching. I will demonstrate EventAction and present early evaluation activities, then together we can discuss the value of opening the blackbox of recommendation systems.

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