“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in the city, was created with a predictive algorithm that focused on factors including, per the Chicago Tribune, “his or
Too many big data initiatives fail because companies, top to bottom, aren’t committed to the truth in analytics. Let me explain. In January 2015, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Teradata (full disclosure: also my employer) released...
There has been a lot of hype around predictive analytics over the past few years, with few real-world applications worth discussing. Industries including manufacturing and logistics, retail and hospitality, financial services and telecommunications, are all beginning to...
How do you catch a crime gang that operates across 36 states, is constantly on the move, and operates by recruiting locals to carry out the dirty work while the ringleaders hide out in motels and safe...
HR technology has hit two critical tipping points this year: more than half of companies are now hosting their human resources management system on the cloud, and more than 60 percent of companies now use mobile for...
As the big data industry continues its incredible upward trajectory, a veritable flood of enlistees are wondering how they can get the training and education necessary to take a foothold in this exciting field. Many are coming...
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CVS Health and IBM say they’ve formed a partnership designed to better predict deteriorating health of the pharmacy giant’s customers through predictive analytics. IBM’s Watson, the computer giant’s artificial intelligence system, hopes to bring better care coordination...
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