The email message earlier today said “Please note that the official schedule will be released tomorrow, February 6th, so please do not share your schedule until that time.” Well, what does that mean, exactly? It means that it’s midnight right now and time to tell the world…. We are going public, people! The PASS Business Analytics 2013 session schedule has been completed, the speakers are working on their presentations, feverously practicing their demo material and rehearsing in the mirror, to no one in the car, to the kids and to the dog who already knew you were crazy before all this mad ness began. Yep, we take this stuff pretty seriously.
The Chicago conference will be unique. Heck, it’s not really anything we’ve done before… exactly. Sure, we’re talking about the same great tools and products that we all know and love so well but we’re showing people how to use Office; Word and Excel to behave in ways that a business leader or company business analyst did even think was possible. Well, we’re gonna blow the cork off this thing and make the tools you are already using singe like Beyoncé at the presidential inauguration – (with or without a prerecorded backtrack.)
The conference is held downtown in the Windy City, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers on Aril 10 through the 14th. Preconference sessions on the first day include:
Wednesday, April 10 (Pre conference sessions)
Advanced Analytics and Insights
A Best Practices Cookbook for Data Mining
Mark Tabladillo (MarkTab Consulting)
Artus Krohn-Grimberghe (Analytic Information Systems and Business Intelligence in Germany)
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros
Andrew J. Brust (Blue Badge Insights)
Data Analytics and Visualization
Power to the Business Analyst: Self-Service Microsoft BI
Peter Myers (Bitwise Solutions)
Strategy and Architecture
Architecting the Next Generation Information Analytics Platform
Robert Skoglund (Microsoft Corporation)
Collecting and Defining Users’ Analytical Requirements
Mark Whitehorn (Penguinsoft Consulting Ltd.)
Thursday, April 11 (Standard Sessions)
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60-Minute Demo: Microsoft BI Tools on SAP Data
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Did you know there are many innovations in SQL Server 2012, SharePoint 2010, and Office 2010 that…
- Michael Raheem (Neudesic)
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Advanced Dashboards Using Excel, Excel Services, and PerformancePoint
Data Analytics and Visualization
Learn more about exciting new ways to build dashboards in Excel, Excel Services, and…
- Leif Brenne (Microsoft)
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Advanced Data Visualization with SQL Server Reporting Services
Data Analytics and Visualization
With the standard SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) engine, you can quickly and easily deliver…
- Oliver Engels (oh22data AG)
- Tillmann Eitelberg (oh22informaton services GmbH)
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Advancing Analytics at Microsoft Advertising
Data Analytics and Visualization
Millions of users spend time on Microsoft consumer properties every day. Advertisers that run…
- Naga Krothapalli (Microsoft)
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Analytics for Business Strategy
Advanced Analytics and Insights
Strategy has remained one of the few areas of business activity not completely under the spell of…
- Cristian Vava (Innovatorium Technologies Corp.)
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Big Data – Top Ingredient to Improve Healthcare
Big Data Innovations and Integration
As healthcare undergoes a major shift toward outcome-based payment and financial models, hospitals…
- Paul Bradley (MethodCare)
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Big Data Analytics with Excel 2013
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Interested in learning more about big data? New to self-service data modeling with PowerPivot, and…
- Peter Myers (Bitwise Solutions)
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Big Data: Threat or Opportunity?
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Big data is everywhere. We see it on commercials. We hear it in conversations over coffee. It is an…
- Shaun Connolly (Hortonworks)
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Strategy and Architecture
You’re a DBA, and your boss asks you to determine if a data warehouse would help the company. So…
- James Serra (Serra Consulting Services)
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Building the Business Case for Big Data
Big Data Innovations and Integration
The sheer scale and hype of big data is grabbing companies’ attention across industries, but what…
- Hyoun Park (Nucleus Research)
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Business Intelligence on Mobile Devices
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Get mobilized! Learn how to leverage Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server technologies…
- Carolyn Chau (Microsoft)
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Charting Collections of Social Media Connections with NodeXL
Data Analytics and Visualization
We live in a sea of tweets, posts, blogs, and updates. Social media can be a bewildering stream of…
- Marc Smith (Connected Action)
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Creating an End-to-End Power View Reporting Solution
Data Analytics and Visualization
Power View lets you create eye-popping visualizations and provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting that…
- Devin Knight (Pragmatic Works)
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Crossing the Last Mile with Predictable Hospital Readmissions
Advanced Analytics and Insights
Hospital readmissions is a $20 billion annual problem in the US. Recent Medicare changes have…
- Jamie MacLennan (Predixion Software)
- Bogdan Crivat (Predixion Software)
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Data Analysis with R and Julia
Advanced Analytics and Insights
R is a free, open-source environment for statistical analysis and graphing. In its almost 20 years…
- Mark Tabladillo (MarkTab Consulting)
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Data Discovery and Transformation Experiences for Excel and PowerPivot
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Microsoft is creating a new set of experiences that enable analysts and business users to discover,…
- Faisal Mohamood (Microsoft)
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Data Visualization with Power View and the Tabular Model
Advanced Analytics and Insights
SQL Server 2012 introduces us to data visualization in the form of Power View and new in-memory…
- Jen Stirrup (Copper Blue Business Intelligence)
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Deep Dive into PowerPivot in Office and SharePoint
Data Analytics and Visualization
Don’t miss this deep dive into the Microsoft BI stack, exploring Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and…
- Diego Oppenheimer (Microsoft)
- Kay Unkroth (Microsoft)
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Delivering Agile BI Solutions
Strategy and Architecture
Many business intelligence teams work within traditional software development life cycles. These…
- Dave DuVarney (SolidQ)
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Drab to Dynamite! Managed Self-Service BI Using Real-World Data
Data Analytics and Visualization
Not every business has perfectly structured data. But with managed self-service business…
- Sean Boon (Microsoft)
- Sandy Rivas (Microsoft)
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Drive Smarter Decisions with Microsoft HDInsight
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Microsoft HDInsight helps you embrace Hadoop – Microsoft’s big data platform for helping you enrich…
- Tim Mallalieu (Microsoft)
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Ensuring Compliance of Patient Data with Big Data and BI
Big Data Innovations and Integration
To help meet HIPAA and HealthAct compliance, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is…
- Denny Lee (Microsoft)
- Ayad Shammout (BIDMC)
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Excel Charting Tips
Data Analytics and Visualization
Join this session to dig into cool and little known Excel charting tips that will help your charts…
- Wayne Winston (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business)
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Feed Your Data! OData Data Feeds for PowerPivot Users
Data Analytics and Visualization
You may have seen the option in PowerPivot or Excel 2013 to import data from a data feed, but do…
- Chris Webb (Crossjoin Consulting Limited)
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From Data to Insight – Views from Microsoft Finance
Data Analytics and Visualization
In today’s economic climate, your business faces greater challenges than ever before. By providing…
- Marc Reguera (Microsoft)
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From Data to Insights with Microsoft’s Big Data
Big Data Innovations and Integration
There has never been a more exciting time in the world of data as we watch the convergence of…
- Eron Kelly (Microsoft)
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GeoSpatial Analytics Using Microsoft BI
Data Analytics and Visualization
In this age of big data, location matters more than many people imagine. Almost every set of data…
- Jason Thomas (Mariner)
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Hailing Frequencies: Analysis Services Terms and Concepts
Information Delivery and Collaboration
In this Star Trek-themed presentation aimed at non-technical folks, we will explain the terms and…
- Mark Vaillancourt (Digineer)
- Doug Lane (University Physicians, Inc.)
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How Intel Integrates Self-Service BI with IT for Better Business Results
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Learn how Intel has worked across organizational boundaries to successfully blend self-service,…
- Cindy Gross (Microsoft)
- Eduardo Gamez (Intel Corporation)
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Inside Atento: Strategies for a Corporate Data Warehouse
Strategy and Architecture
Atento is a call center company with offices in 16 countries. Each country has its own systems to…
- Javier Torrenteras (SolidQ)
- «Make Cloud BI Work for You
- Strategy and Architecture
Not all business intelligence needs are the same; if they were, this world would be a very boring…
- Chuck Heinzelman (Microsoft)
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Mastering the CUBE Functions in Excel 2013
Data Analytics and Visualization
Join this session to explore the seven CUBE functions natively available in Excel 2013. Unknown to…
- Peter Myers (Bitwise Solutions)
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Mastering Time-Based Analysis in DAX
Data Analytics and Visualization
So much analysis that a business typically performs on its data involves dates and/or times. Many…
- Dan Clark (PragmaticWorks)
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MDS and DQS – Beyond the TLAs to Data Quality
Strategy and Architecture
Many three-letter acronyms (TLAs) adorn our database world. This session focuses on two recent…
- Neil Hambly (Confio Software)
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Measuring the Subscription Economy
Data Analytics and Visualization
In today’s mobile landscape, many companies – including Spotify, Dropbox, XBox Live, and Audible –…
- Angel Abundez (DesignMind)
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Mobile Business Intelligence, Apprentice Style!
Information Delivery and Collaboration
How can you implement mobile Business Intelligence at your organisation – right now. During the…
- Jen Stirrup (Copper Blue Business Intelligence)
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Modern Data Warehousing Strategy
Strategy and Architecture
The recent introduction of new technologies such as PowerPivot, the BI Semantic Model, and…
- Marco Russo (SQLBI)
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My Brain Hurts: Presenting Data with Microsoft Tools
Information Delivery and Collaboration
There is an old saying, “May you live in interesting times.” But interesting times can be both a…
- Craig Utley (CTS)
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NoSQL: An Analysis
Big Data Innovations and Integration
NoSQL is often mentioned in the same breath with big data and analytics. At other times, NoSQL is…
- Andrew J. Brust (Blue Badge Insights)
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Office as Your BI Platform
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Learn about leveraging Office 365 and SharePoint as your business intelligence platform to deliver…
- Ashvini Sharma (Microsoft)
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PDW Architecture Gets Real: Customer Implementations
Strategy and Architecture
Dive into the world of SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), and discover the power of the…
- Brian Walker (Microsoft)
- Murshed Zaman (Microsoft)
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Power to the Pivot – Practical Intro to PowerPivot 2012
Data Analytics and Visualization
Want to create snazzy reports to impress the boss but aren’t a BI expert? Don’t climb the clock…
- Hope Foley (Perpetual Technologies)
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Present and Futures: Roadmap and Strategy
Strategy and Architecture
Join this session to learn the latest about Microsoft’s platform for business analytics, showcasing…
- Kamal Hathi (Microsoft)
- Eran Megiddo (Microsoft)
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Recommender Systems – A Walkthrough
Advanced Analytics and Insights
Join this session to learn about recommender systems, which use a nifty predictive analytics…
- Artus Krohn-Grimberghe (Analytic Information Systems and Business Intelligence in Germany)
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Self-Service Business Analytics in 2013
Information Delivery and Collaboration
On its own, self-service analytics struggles to give business users the insights they need. But…
- Rod Colledge (StrataDB)
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Self-Service Data Modeling
Data Analytics and Visualization
Self-service business intelligence looks promising, empowering information workers to grab amazing…
- Marco Russo (SQLBI)
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Social Text, Sentiment, and Tone Analysis
Advanced Analytics and Insights
People’s sentiments and opinions are written in social networks. There are tweets, Facebook posts,…
- Ruben Pertusa Lopez (SolidQ)
- Paco Gonzalez (SolidQ)
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Sports Analytics: Big Data in the Big Time
Data Analytics and Visualization
How do baseball, football, and basketball teams use Excel and data analytics to improve player…
- Wayne Winston (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business)
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SQL Server Predictive Analytics: Customer Stories
Advanced Analytics and Insights
SQL Server provides a rich predictive analytics platform as part of Analysis Services that you can…
- Raman Iyer (Microsoft)
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Structured and Unstructured Data Living in Peace and Harmony
Big Data Innovations and Integration
Can you mash structured and unstructured worlds together and still make sense of it all? The answer…
- Igor Stanko (Microsoft)
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Taking BI to the Next Level: Collaboration
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Self-service business intelligence is usually an independent activity. But when individuals…
- Stacia Misner (Data Inspirations)
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The ABCs of Scoring: Why, How, and Getting a Good Grade
Data Analytics and Visualization
Scoring models are a valuable and popular analytical technique. The FICO credit score used in…
- Dan Bulos (Symmetry Corporation)
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The Essential 8: Narrative Reporting Techniques
Data Analytics and Visualization
Boring static reports are no longer acceptable in today’s business culture. Analytics should be…
- Josh Fennessy (BlueGranite)
- Julie Koesmarno (LobsterPot Solutions)
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The Future of Apache Hive and Hadoop 2.0: Bigger, Faster, Stronger
Advanced Analytics and Insights
Apache Hive, a SQL-like interface for Apache Hadoop, is used for reporting and analysis over huge…
- Carter Shanklin (Hortonworks)
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The Unrealized Power of Data
Advanced Analytics and Insights
Business metrics do a fine job summarizing the past. But to predict how customers will respond in…
- Roger Barga (Microsoft)
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UBS: Analytics Is the New Mission Critical
Information Delivery and Collaboration
Effective analytics solutions are core business drivers. This session focuses on a risk-management…
- Kamal Hathi (Microsoft)
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Using Power View and Hadoop to Unlock Hidden Markets
Data Analytics and Visualization
A practical way to derive business value from big data is to micro-target customers, but where do…
- Stacia Misner (Data Inspirations)
- Joseph D’Antoni (Comcast)
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Visualization Choices: What, When, and How?
- Data Analytics and Visualization
When do you use a sparkline, column, or line chart? How do you create a business scorecard – and…
- Paul Turley (SolidQ)
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What Is Data Science?
Advanced Analytics and Insights
According to the Harvard Business Review*, data scientist is “The sexiest job of the 21st Century.”…
- Mark Whitehorn (Penguinsoft Consulting Ltd.)
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Why BI Projects Fail (And What You Can Do About It)
Strategy and Architecture
Is your organization planning to build a data warehouse or BI solution? While it’s obviously…
- Craig Utley (CTS)
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- Igor Stanko (Microsoft)
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- Ashvini Sharma (Microsoft)
- Javier Torrenteras (SolidQ)
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So, go! Register for the conference and attend. Learn, grow and make something of your self. There is so much you can do!