Complete list of Presentations
Keynote Speaker: “Business in the Digital Age” International Conference on Innovative Trends in Business
and Technology, Virtual/Lahore, Pakistan, October 2022 (forthcoming).
“Twitter-Patter: How Social Media Drives Retail Foot Traffic”
- Placekey Seminar Series, Virtual, May 2021.
- Big Data Ignite, Virtual, October 2021.
“Evaluating Collinear Economic Variables with Machine Learning: A Case Study on Retail Visits and Tax
Returns” Midwest Regional Graduate Symposium, Virtual/Toledo, OH, April 2021.
- 2nd place Best Graduate Presentation.
“The Peanut Butter Problem: Building an Out of Stock Product Recommender” Big Data Ignite,
Virtual/Grand Rapids, October 2020.
“Big Data Hubris: Limitations in Aggregating Uber and Google Data.” Data Science & Analytics West
Michigan, Grand Rapids, March 2020.
“Economic Lessons from the #ChickenSandwichWars.” Three Minute Thesis Competition—Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February 2020.
- WMU 1st place winner & voted People’s Choice. Finalist at Midwest regional competition.
Keynote Speaker: “Is a Recession Coming? The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Economic Trends.” Great Lakes
Ice Cream and Fast Food Association Trade Show, Battle Creek, Michigan, February 2020.
“Predicting Brand Sales with Twitter Text Analysis.” International Conference on Big Data Analytics and
Data Science, Las Vegas, November 2019.
“Flexible Ubers and Fixed Taxis: The Effect of Fuel Prices on Car Services.”
- Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, March 2019.
- Ohio Association for Economics and Political Scientists Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio,
September 2019.
- Grand Valley State University Seminar, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 2019.
“Appalachia: Overview of the Region and Economy.” Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice, Washington
DC, November 2012.
“The Impact of Domestic and International Immersion Experiences on Students.” Wheeling Jesuit University
Research and Scholarship Symposium, Wheeling, West Virginia, April 2012.
“Crisis Mapping: Conflict and Disaster Response in the Digital Age.” John Carroll University Celebration
of Scholarship, Cleveland, April 2011.