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Vincent Granville
Seattle, WA
currently: Job hunting
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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?
Vincent Granville is a leading expert in data mining, text mining, predictive modeling, business intelligence, fraud detection, technical analysis, keyword and web analytics. Over the last ten years, he has worked in real-time credit card fraud detection with Visa, advertising and web analytics with CNET, A/B testing with LowerMyBills, online user experience with Wells Fargo, query intelligence with InfoSpace, click fraud detection with major search engines and large advertising clients. He founded Data Shaping Solutions in 1999 and recently partnered with Authenticlick to further develop patent-pending click fraud solutions. Vincent is a former post-doctorate of Cambridge University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was among the finalists at the Wharton School Business Plan Competition and at the Belgian Mathematical Olympiads.
e-Mail:
+ vgranville@authenticlick.net for inquiries about click fraud detection, web analytics, scoring
+ vincentg@datashaping.com for networking, job posting
Specialties:
data mining, six sigma, web analytics, text mining, pattern recognition, crm, sas, predictive modeling, splus, jmp, perl, web mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery, ai, sql, large data sets, data analysis, survey analysis, customer profiling, churn, user retention, search engine, query intelligence, credit card fraud, click fraud, scorecards, clustering, decision trees, logistic regression, advertising mix optimization, pareto analysis, business intelligence, design of experiments... 
Posted @ 12:33PM, January 12, 2008
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Work history
Principal
tags:
crm
• analytical
• six sigma
• forecasting
• text mining
• biostatistics
• correlations
• computer science
• artificial intelligence
• bioinformatics
• customer segmentation
• large data sets
• algorithms
• mathematics
• data mining
• knowledge discovery
• variance
• splus
• recruiting
• operations research
• risk management
• loyalty
• data warehousing
• clustering
• computational
• web mining
• customer profiling
• data analysis
• statistical
• quant
crm
• analytical
• six sigma
• forecasting
• text mining
• biostatistics
• correlations
• computer science
• artificial intelligence
• bioinformatics
• customer segmentation
• large data sets
• algorithms
• mathematics
• data mining
• knowledge discovery
• variance
• splus
• recruiting
• operations research
• risk management
• loyalty
• data warehousing
• clustering
• computational
• web mining
• customer profiling
• data analysis
• statistical
• quant
• time series
• user retention
• sql
• spss
• information retrieval
• decision trees
• marketing databases
• machine learning
• fraud detection
• sas
• econometrics
• multivariate
• statistician
• pattern recognition
• logistic regression
How would you describe your time at Data Shaping Solutions - #1...?
Creation of the leading and most visited data mining meta directory and analytical job board with 500,000 yearly page views. Statistical consulting until 2005. Past clients include Visa (credit card fraud detection), LowerMyBills (A/B testing, web analytics), Wells Fargo (web analytics), InfoSpace (click fraud detection, text mining, data mining, web analytics).
Starting in 2006, strategic partnerships with Arbita and other job ad networks. Creation of the first blog exclusively focused on statistical jobs. Attracted advertisers such as Amazon, Yahoo, Chase, Facebook and hedge funds in US and abroad.
The DataShaping network now includes AnalyticBrain.com (blog for recruiters), AnalyticTalent.com (blog for job seekers), AnalyticResumes.com and AnalyticGroup.com (Google group)....
Chief Science Officer
tags:
click scoring
• advertising mix
• roi optimization
• data mining
• botnet detection
• web analytics
• adsense
• text mining
• adwords
• artificial intelligence
• web mining
How would you describe your time at Authenticlick?
Authenticlick offers the most sophisticated solutions for Internet traffic scoring, optimization, and measurement, including click fraud and botnet detection. Authenticlick combines state-of-the-art technology, deep domain expertise with years of experience in fraud detection, risk management, web mining, text mining, web analytics, statistical science, financial auditing, ROI optimization and business intelligence.
I prototype patent-pending scoring and ROI optimization algorithms, blacklists / whitelists and methodology to detect bogus conversions, bogus impressions, bogus clicks, as well as CTR and ad relevancy gaming both in real time and with end-of-day algorithms. I develop the rule engine (including rule discovery), the machine learning platform, the validation process, and web analytics in general....
Web Mining, Web Analytics, Data Mining, and Click Fraud Expert
tags:
keyword taxonomy
• query intelligence
• clustering algorithms
• data mining
• text mining
• search engine
• impression fraud
• click fraud detection
• click quality
• web crawler
• web analytics
• design of experiments
How would you describe your time at Infospace?
Click scoring technology, query intelligence, web analytics, business intelligence related to mobile search. Designed click fraud detection algorithms to process billions of clicks. Created rule selection and rule discovery system for fraud detection, based on machine learning (unsupervised clustering), design of experiments, robust cross validation and linkage with external data sources (Google search results) to discover additional fraud patterns. Enhanced keyword taxonomies using data driven algorithms to detect keyword associations. Defined and tested metrics for keyword correlations. Developed multi-threaded web crawler to feed text mining algorithms with rich, targeted data sources related to local search and / or yellow pages....
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