The Atlanta Chapter of INFORMS, the national society for Operations Research and Management Science professionals, will meet on Thursday, September 27th, at 6:00 PM. Our meeting location is the Executive Classroom of Georgia Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. A reception will precede the meeting at 5:30. Dr. Peter Oburu, Senior Statistician with Equifax, will be our guest speaker. Dr. Oburu's presentation topic will be How Predictive Analytics Can be Used for Data Quality Work. Peter's BIO is below for your review.

The meeting is open to all interested parties, and is free of charge. Refreshments will be served, and there will also be time to network with fellow OR/MS and other professionals in the Atlanta community. Please pass this email along to any associates whom you think might be interested. Please let me know if you plan to attend the meeting and your number of invited guests. I want to try and make sure I have the proper amount of food and drinks. The meeting will be in the Executive Classroom (Room 228) of the ISyE main building located at 755 Ferst Drive. This is the same location as most of our previous meetings. Here's a link to a map of the campus and the ISyE Visitor Parking Lot: http://www.isye.gatech.edu/visitors/maps/isye-map.php. There is plenty, but no longer free, parking. We look forward to seeing you there.

Bio:

Dr. Oburu has over 9 years of analytics and consulting experience with the telecommunication, insurance and retail industries specializing in predictive modeling, CRM analysis, design of experiments and data mining. He is currently a senior statistician with the Strategic Data Analytics group of Equifax. Dr. Oburu was graduated from Georgia State University with a PhD and MA in economics and from Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya) with a BA in economics.