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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...
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Dan Sarkar at Insight Que Solutions
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World for BusinessIn anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Business Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2019, we asked Dan Sarkar, Director of Data Science at Insight Que Solutions, a...
Dr. Data Video: The Persuasion Paradox – How Computers Optimize their Influence on You
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World How do computers optimize mass persuasion – for marketing, presidential campaigns, and even healthcare? And why is there actually no data that directly records influence, considering it's so important? In this season finale...
Dr. Data Video: Five Ways Your Safety Depends on Machine Learning
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World In this episode of The Dr. Data Show, Eric Siegel tells you about five ways your safety depends on machine learning, which actively protects you from all sorts of dangers, including fires, explosions, collapses, crashes,...
Five Reasons to Go to Mega-PAW, the Premier Machine Learning Conference
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World When deciding on a machine learning conference, why go to Mega-PAW Vegas 2019? This five-conference event – June 16-20, 2019 at Caesars Palace – delivers brand-name, cross-industry, vendor-neutral case studies purely on...
Dr. Data Video: A.I. Is a Big Fat Lie
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Is AI legit? In this must-see episode, Dr. Data delivers a treatise that ridicules the widespread myth of artificial intelligence. His impassioned soliloquy is enlightening and actually pretty funny. It's time for the term...
Dr. Data Show Video: Why Ice Cream Is Linked to Shark Attacks – Correlation/Causation Smackdown
By: Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOB6vcwFL-I Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? Watch this episode of The Dr. Data Show, which delivers the final word on what people mean by "correlation does not imply...