LatentView adjudged as one of the winners at the INFORMS Data Mining Contest 2008

Sept. 26, 2008 - PRLog -- New York, NY, Chennai India - LatentView Analytics (LatentView), a leading Predictive Analytics and Decision Management services firm, has secured the runner up position at the INFORMS Data Mining Contest 2008.

The business challenge was to be able to identify patients in a hospital, with high risk of contracting nosocomial pneumonia during a surgical procedure. The LatentView team developed a predictive model which would score patients on the risk of contracting nosocomial pneumonia. After evaluating different techniques, Logistic regression was the chosen technique to develop the predictive model, which had an AUC of .8304.

“Our success at the INFORMS data mining competition is a testimony to our talented team and reflects our passion to benchmark ourselves against the very best in the Industry. The ability to blend business knowledge, with deep understanding of statistics and modeling techniques, helps us to deliver actionable insights to complex business problems”, says Venkat Viswanathan, CEO of LatentView Analytics.

The 3-member LatentView team was led by Srividhya Kannan and ably supported by Sai Kameswara Rao Vadrevu and Gowrishanker Muthyala. The team secured the runner’s up position overcoming stiff competition from leading data analytics organizations, research organizations and universities. The 7-member team from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center was adjudged the winner.

"The team enjoyed the challenges posed at every step in the contest. Optimization algorithms, Bayesian networks, CART, etc were explored over and above the usual predictive modeling techniques.  Overall, this contest was an invigorating experience for me and the team", says Srividhya Kannan.

About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.).  It was established in 1995 with the merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS).

About LatentView Analytics
LatentView provides predictive analytics solutions with a focus on data analysis and modeling that help with decisions around marketing, risk and customer management for consumer intensive businesses. We blend our business knowledge, expertise in quantitative methods, and data management to derive actionable insights for effective decisions. For more information, please visit us as http://www.LatentView.com

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LatentView provides predictive analytics solutions that help with decisions around marketing, risk and customer management.. We blend our business knowledge, expertise in quantitative methods, and data management to derive actionable insights.