The New York Predictive Analytics World (PAW) conference was a very successful event, with dozens of presentations in three tracks, and the parallel PAW for Financial Services and PAW for Healthcare events. Rexer Analytics President, Karl Rexer, moderated one track and gave a highly rated joint presentation with SmarterHQ Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Dean Abbott – an open discussion and Q&A session focused on best practices in predictive analytics, techniques for data preparation and creating derived variables, and communicating modeling results.