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By: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Originally published in Harvard Business Review For more than 250 years the fundamental drivers of economic growth have been technological innovations. The most important of these are what economists call general-purpose technologies — a category that includes the steam engine, electricity, and the internal combustion engine. Each one catalyzed waves of complementary innovations and opportunities.
Originally published by Harvard Business Review If the video is not showing, click here to view linked to: https://hbr.org/webinar/2017/09/putting-predictive-analytics-to-work Prediction is reinventing industries and changing our worlds. Companies, governments, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, and universities are using the...
Originally published in Wired.com Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. Not in the martial arts — she’s already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. This time it’s...
Originally published in KDNuggets.com More than a decade back while joining a large US Credit Card company, it was surprising to see that Predictive Analytics was limited to multivariate regression and...
Several scientific disciplines have been rocked by a crisis of reproducibility in recent years . Not long ago, Bayer researchers found that they were only able to replicate 25% of the important pharmaceutical papers they examined , and an...
Originally published in The New Yorker Editor’s note: Keep in mind that the high “accuracies” such as 81%, as reported by this research up front, are misleading. The model is effective, with a lift around 7 at...
In anticipation of her upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare New York, October 29 – Nov 2, 2017, we asked Anna Kondic, Executive Director, Predictive Economic Modeling at Merck, a few questions about incorporating predictive...
In my last article, I discussed the increasing impact of automation and its actual impact in creating the analytical file. As any data scientist knows, this component or stage of the data science process can typically represent...
By: Daniel Tunkelang
This article originally appeared as an answer on Quora. As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means learning from data; AI is...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Data Alchemy at Predictive Analytics World for Business London, October 11-12, 2017, we asked Lukas Vermeer, Data Scientist, Booking.com, a few questions about his work in predictive analytics. Q: Hi...
