Dean Abbott

-- Co-founder and Chief Data Dcientist at SmarterHQ, a Wunderkind Company. -- Internationally recognized expert and innovator in data science and predictive analytics, with more than three decades of experience solving problems in customer analytics, fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, survey analysis, and many more. He is frequently included in lists of top pioneering and influential data scientists.-- clients have included dozens of Fortune 500 companies, small companies, Public Sector (IRS, Revenue Canada, DFAS, U.S. Navy)-- Author of Applied Predictive Analytics (Wiley, 2014, 2nd edition forthcoming) and coauthor of The IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2013). -- keynote speaker and workshop instructor at conferences worldwide, including Predictive Analytics Worl...