Jackson is the communications manager for MinneAnalytics and serves as webmaster.
We’ve got some really cool events planned for the coming months, including:
Interested in sponsoring an event? Have a great idea for a speaker? Contact us!
Date Night! How Data Science Leads to ‘I do’ was a huge success. We had a sold-out crowd at the Carlson School of Management and a great discussion from the panel. Two of our panel members, Christian Rudder and Chris McKinlay, were featured on MPR’s Daily Circuit on the morning of the event! You can listen to the audio here.
We’d like to thank the attendees, panel members and our event partner, SOBACO, for making Date Night such an excellent event. We have several more events planned for 2015, including healthcare analytics, marketing analytics and financial services conferences. Do you have a great location idea for an event? Interested in sponsoring an event? Get in touch!
Christian is cofounder and CEO of OKCupid. In his new book, Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), Rudder examines what online data reveal about people’s romantic lives and beyond. According to Forbes, “Dataclysm is all about what we can learn about human minds and hearts by analyzing the massive ongoing experiment that is the internet.” @christianrudder
Chris is postdoctoral researcher in the Knights Lab at the University of Minnesota. While working on his dissertation, McKinlay famously reverse-engineered OKCupid’s algorithms in order to match with more potential dates. As a result, he met the woman who would become his fiance. Wired magazine told his story “How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love” in January 2014. @cem3394
