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Artificial Intelligence(AI) continues to be the next great topic of debate. In fact, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google and Facebook announced on Thursday,Sept.29 the formation of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. Within the predictive analytics discipline, though, we tend to use the term “machine learning” as our reference point for artificial
The future is the ultimate unknown. It’s everything that hasn’t happened yet. Prediction as a capability is booming. It reinvents industries and runs the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and...
Data is the world’s most potent, flourishing unnatural resource. Accumulated in large part as the by-product of routine tasks, it is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations churn away. Surprise! This heap of...
This article is excerpted from Eric Siegel’s foreword to the recently released book, Mining Your Own Business: A Primer for Executives on Understanding and Employing Data Mining and Predictive Analytics, by Jeff Deal and Gerhard Pilcher....
It’s no secret that there’s a shortage of data scientists in America’s workforce. Many companies look to hire overseas to help ease the domestic talent shortfall (in fact, one in three data scientists are born outside the...
In this article, I provide evidence that Hillary for America is employing uplift modeling for per-voter persuasion—which Trump’s campaign may not be taking advantage of—and I pose questions about the 2016 presidential race to a leading...
Continuing on our discussion from last month on toolkits for practitioners, you will note that I purposely do not make reference to specific brand names and companies. By googling data science software, the user can easily obtain...
Predictive analytics is increasingly becoming the object of value within many so-called traditional industries like manufacturing. While historically data generated by and in manufacturing is mostly structured, today unstructured data is also becoming a source that cannot...
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,...
For more on government applications of predictive analytics, see Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016 in Washington, DC. Governments have much to gain from applying algorithms to public policy, but controversies loom For frazzled teachers...
