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Incoherent AGI Hype Spurs An Industrywide Pivot To Hybrid AI
  Originally published in Forbes Recently on The Dr. Data Show,...
The AI Paradox: More Humanlike Means Less Autonomous
  Originally published in Forbes The AI executives are at...
How To Overcome The Confidence-Killer That Destroys Most Predictive AI Projects
  Originally published in Forbes When Henry Castellanos first presented...
You Must Address These 4 Concerns To Deploy Predictive AI
 Originally published in Forbes Most predictive AI projects fail to launch into production. The...

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A Good Business Objective Beats a Good Algorithm

 Predictive Modeling competitions, once the arena for a few data mining conferences, has now become big business. Kaggle (kaggle.com) is perhaps the most well-known forum for modeling competitions, using a crowd-sourcing mentality: if more people try to solve a problem, the likelihood that someone will create an excellent solution to that problem increases. The participants,

The Role of Analysts After Model Deployment

Last month I made the case for discussing model deployment. One of the mistakes I see organizations make related to deployment is this: after the model is deployed, there is little or no thought about that model...

Why Don’t We Talk about Deployment?

The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) is the leading published methodology for Data Mining (DM), and by extension, Predictive Analytics (PA). I use it routinely as I lead PA projects and when I...

Why (some) Predictive Analytics will Move to the Cloud

A 2012 Gartner survey of over 1300 IT managers and business users already use or plan to use cloud-based or SaaS (Software as a Service) products in the next twelve months. Cloud-based computing is still...

The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection

The recent leaks about the NSA's use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and has resulted in hours of discussions with family, relatives, friends and reporters about what predictive analytics can...