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Hot Video: More Accuracy Fallacies – Predicting Criminality and Psychosis
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Check out this topical video from Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel: https://youtu.be/ui3VkecTX3Y Can AI "tell" if you're a criminal? Or whether you'll develop psychosis? These are perfect examples of...
The Precondition for Machine Learning Success: Bridge the Quant/Business Culture Gap
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Over the last few years, I poured thousands of working hours and 25 years of consulting and teaching experience into making the online course Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery. Why? I developed...
Hot Video: The Accuracy Fallacy – Bogus Machine Learning Results
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Check out this topical video from Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel: https://youtu.be/81Vv0J2Vw-Y Can AI "tell" if you're gay? When machine learning practitioners claim their model achieves "high...
Explainable Machine Learning, Model Transparency, and the Right to Explanation
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Check out this topical video from Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel: https://youtu.be/XDonDVGWhAE A computer can keep you in jail, or deny you a job, a loan, insurance coverage, or housing – and yet you...
Machine Learning’s Missing Link: Business Leadership
Machine learning. Your team needs it, your boss demands it, and your career loves it. After all, LinkedIn places it as one of the top few “Skills Companies Need Most” and as the very top emerging job in the U.S. But this number-crunching craze tends to, tragically,...
Six Ways Machine Learning Threatens Social Justice
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Originally published in Big Think When you harness the power and potential of machine learning, there are also some drastic downsides that you've got to manage. Deploying machine learning, you face the risk that it be...
Coursera’s “Machine Learning for Everyone” Fulfills Unmet Training Requirements
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World My new course series on Coursera, Machine Learning for Everyone (free access), fulfills two different kinds of unmet learner needs. It’s a conceptually-complete, end-to-end course series – its three courses amount to the...
How Machine Learning Works – in 20 Seconds
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E57_7an0cY This transcript comes from Coursera’s online course series, Machine Learning for Everyone with Eric Siegel. In 57 words, here's why machine learning’s important: Business needs...
Seven Reasons Budding Data Scientists Need a Machine Learning Course That’s Not Hands-On
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World From Coursera's "Machine learning for Everyone" My new course series on Coursera, Machine Learning for Everyone (free access), is for any learner who wishes to participate in the business deployment of machine learning, no...
Watch 3 Videos from Coursera’s New “Machine Learning for Everyone”
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World I’m pleased to announce that, after a successful run with a batch of beta test learners, Coursera has just launched my new three-course specialization, “Machine Learning for Everyone.” There is no cost to access this program...
More Examples of the Media’s Bogus Claims of “High Accuracy” AI
By: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., Predictive Analytics World This article covers additional examples of the “accuracy fallacy” – it follows up as an addendum to my article published by Scientific American, “Accuracy Fallacy: The Media's Coverage of AI is Bogus”. I strongly...
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Sara Golas, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs & Jorn op den Buijs, Philips Research
By: Jeff Deal, Conference Chair, Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare In anticipation of their upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2019, we asked Sara Golas, Senior Data Specialist at Partners...
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Nathan Susanj at Wells Fargo
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World for Business In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Business Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2019, we asked Nathan Susanj, Vice President and Data Science Manager at Wells...
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Bob Nisbet at University of California, Irvine
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World for Business In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Business Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2019, we asked Bob Nisbet, Instructor at University of California, Irvine, a few...
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Leslie Barrett at Bloomberg LP
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World for Business In anticipation of her upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Business Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2019, we asked Leslie Barrett, Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP, a few...