ID Analytics wins prestigious international Predictive Technology and Data Mining Competition
Paris, France (Business Wire) 29 June 2009
ID Analytics, the leading provider of on-demand identity intelligence, today announced that the company won the team to second place among the Award Top data analysis company in the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Competition (KDD Cup organized) by the ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, the most important and most prestigious competition in data mining and analysis in the world.
KDD Cup is the oldest and toughest data mining competition in the field of predictive technology and data mining. Every year thousands of people from a wide range of industries to the complex mathematical models to complex analytical problems from different disciplines such as medicine, marketing and environmental sciences. solve
createID Analytics team placed in the KDD-Cup “challenge quickly, and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge’s Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD), second ID Analytics officially presented with the award on 28 June 2009, at 15 Annual Meeting of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Paris, France.
The 2009 KDD Cup
challenge was “almost scoring on a large database.” Teams working on major marketing databases in the French telecommunications company Orange to switch customers to the inclination of the provider, purchase new products or services, or register for upgrades that predict the increased profitability of the sale. The overall goal was to beat in the House of Orange Analytics system currently.
4732 completed valid entries, each team had to download and pre-process the data, selecting the right modeling algorithm to build the best model, and present the results in a short period of time (within five days for the “quick challenge “).
2009 ID Analytics effort was led by senior scientist Dr. Jianjun Xie, comprised with a team of scientists Dr. Victoria Rojkova and Dr. Siddharth Pal, and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Stephen Coggeshall.
“ID Analytics deserves this recognition for its superior technology and advanced analytical modeling skills. Our analysis organization an exceptional group of talented professionals with different skills in engineering, physics, computer science and mathematics. They create ever expanding analytical technique that offers companies with the predictions of the likelihood of identity risk and provides customers with an individual, by MyIDScore.com place, with a fast and simple way to estimate their risk of identity theft, “said Coggeshall.
ID Analytics offers industry-leading telecommunications, financial services, retail, utility, e-commerce and healthcare companies, and major government agencies and unprecedented insight into individual identities. This enables companies to reduce to drive new revenue opportunities, financial losses and government with relevant regulations.
Past winners of this competition are companies with worldwide recognition and prestige in the research, such as the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the ATT Laboratories, IBM, Carnegie Mellon, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
For more information about ID Analytics visit, ID Analytics, Inc.
About ID Analytics, Inc.
ID Analytics, the leading provider of on-demand identity intelligence, protects both businesses and consumers by providing unprecedented insight into fraud and credit risk exposure. Building on the success of ® its industry-standard ID result has ID Analytics pioneered a new generation of solutions for risk management by combining the ID Network ® – the nation’s only real-time, cross-industry compilation of identity information; Personal Topology ™ – patented technology to dynamically interpret a person’s identity and its relationship with other properties, and proprietary Advanced AnalyticsSM. Leading telecommunications, financial services, retail, utility, e-commerce and healthcare companies, and major government agencies trust ID Analytics to protect their customers new revenue opportunities, reduce financial losses, and comply with federal regulations. ID Analytics is CA in San Diego.
For more information contact:
Scott Love
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
781.684.0770
IDAnalytics (at) Schwartz-pr.com
Lisa Luczyk
ID Analytics, Inc.
858.312.6284
lluczyk (at) idanalytics.com
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