By Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets Originally published in KDnuggets The popular job site Glassdoor published a list of 50 Best Jobs in America, and Data Scientist is again the no. 1 job in USA, with Job score 4.8 out of 5, $110,000 Median Base Salary, and 4,000 job openings. Half of the top 10 jobs are
Originally published in CivicHall.org For the past week or so, an article titled “The Data That Turned the World Upside Down” has been following me around like a bad headcold. The article tells a compelling “whodunit” story...
Everyone is wanting to learn more about how Machine Learning can be used in their business. What’s interesting though is that many companies may already be using Machine Learning to some extent without really realising it. The...
Businesses today are constantly generating enormous amounts of data, but that doesn’t always translate to actionable information. Over the past several years, my research group at MIT and I have sought answers to a fundamental question: What would...
There’s a lot of talk right now about how big data is going to change insurance. Artificial intelligence and prescriptive analytics are definitely coming, and they will definitely change the insurance industry. To get a better idea...
The three presidential debates during the 2016 election year were of historical importance. This election campaign is likely to shape the political discourse for the country by unprecedented proportions. The stakes are high and candidates unique. For the...
At the intelligence community’s research and development agency, the wisdom of the crowd is often more important than that of experts. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is running several simultaneous research expeditions into how crowdsourced...
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...
With the ever-rising expectation of getting whatever we want, whenever we want it, companies are no longer waiting for orders to be placed. Instead, they are moving towards predictive fulfillment – using data and machine learning to...
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,...