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Three Best Practices for Unilever’s Global Analytics Initiatives
    This article from Morgan Vawter, Global Vice...
Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
 Originally published in Harvard Business Review Machine learning might...
Eric Siegel on Bloomberg Businessweek
  Listen to Eric Siegel, former Columbia University Professor,...
Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...

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Measuring Invisible Treatment Effects with Uplift Analysis

  Models make predictions by identifying consistent correlations in what has been observed, but we usually require more than predictions to know what action we should take. For example, knowing that older people are more likely to have heart disease is a good first step, but knowing behaviors or treatments that will reduce the risk

Election Analytics Falacies: “Moneyball” Doesn’t Always Win

 Originally published in CivicHall.org For the past week or so, an article titled “The Data That Turned the World Upside Down” has been following me around like a bad headcold. The article tells a compelling “whodunit” story...

Numbers Game: Will Predictive Analytics Decide September’s Federal Election?

 A week after November’s United States presidential election and Nate Silver was everywhere. Already an established member of the American political commentariat via his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver’s name went into the stratosphere after he correctly predicted the...