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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Fraud Detection

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Anasse Bari, New York University

  Wall Street and the New Data Paradigm In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Wall Street and the New Data Paradigm at Predictive Analytics World for Financial in New York, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2017, we asked Anasse Bari, Clinical Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University, a few questions about his work in predictive analytics.

Big Data Already Paying Off in Insurance Fraud Detection

 There’s a lot of talk right now about how big data is going to change insurance. Artificial intelligence and prescriptive analytics are definitely coming, and they will definitely change the insurance industry. To get a better idea...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Robin Thottungal at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference keynote presentation, 21st Century Data-Driven Environmental Protection at Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016, we asked Robin Thottungal, Chief Data Scientist/Director of Analytics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Miguel Castillo at U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference co-presentation, Words that Matter:  Application of Text Analytics at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, at Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016, we asked Miguel Castillo, Assistant Inspector General...

Call for Speakers Open Predictive Analytics World 2017 Spring/Summer

 Save the date—speaker submissions are now open for spring/summer 2017 Predictive Analytics World events. Share how predictive analytics impacts your organization at the leading cross-vendor event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. As a speaker,...

The Real Reason the NSA Wants Your Data: Predictive Law Enforcement

 The NSA can leverage bulk data collection with predictive analytics to target law enforcement activities. But this little-known capability both intensifies and redefines the debate over how much data governments should be collecting. About this article. This...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Dae Park and Vijay D’Souza at Government Accountability Office (GAO)

 In anticipation of their upcoming conference co-presentation, Characteristics for Those Claiming Social Security Benefits Early, at Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016, we asked Dae Park, Assistant Director at Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Vijay...

Wise Practitioner – Text Analytics Interview Series: Michael Dessauer and Justin Kauhl at The Dow Chemical Company

 In anticipation of their upcoming conference co-presentation, Understanding our Customers’ Customers’ Customers’ Needs – Text Analytics for B-to-B Businesses at Text Analytics World Chicago, June 21-22, 2016, we asked Michael Dessauer, Data Scientist at The Dow Chemical...

Wise Practitioner – Text Analytics Interview Series: John Herzer and Pengchu Zhang at Sandia National Laboratories

 In anticipation of their upcoming conference co-presentation, Enhancing search results relevance using Word2Vec Language Models at Text Analytics World Chicago, June 21-22, 2016, we asked Pengchu Zhang, Computer Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, and John Herzer, Enterprise...

The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection

The recent leaks about the NSA's use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and has resulted in hours of discussions with family, relatives, friends and reporters about what predictive analytics can...