Last Chance – Free Online Training with Preorder of My Book

This offer expires Wednesday so I'm reposting:     To drive early orders for my about-to-launch book, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die (published by Wiley Feb. 18), we're providing the following...

Newsmax TV: Digital Analytics Helped Obama Get Re-Elected

Newsmax TV interviewed me regarding, in their words: The Obama campaign’s use of computerized data in deciding which potential voters to target helped the president win in November, says Eric Siegel, a former computer science professor at Columbia University....

Team Obama Mastered the Science of Mass Persuasion — And Won

This blog post was also distributed on Big Think, Truthout, The Moderate Voice. Last October, a colleague and I speculated on how a special, powerful form of predictive analytics would revolutionize presidential campaigning—and, if successful, how it might be...

The Obama Camp Persuaded Millions of Voters with Uplift Modeling

  The Fiscal Times is running an excerpt from my book, Predictive Analytics, about the Obama campaign's use of uplift modeling (aka net lift or persuasion modeling). ARTICLE: The Real Story Behind Obama's Election Victory  By Eric Siegel Elections...