Electricity theft is estimated to cost the energy industry approximately $6 billion each year. Analytics can help them recoup a significant portion of those losses. People go to all kinds of lengths to steal electricity. Some simply turn their meters upside down so they run backwards. Others break into their meters and pour glue over
While heaps of big data exist in the travel sector – from how seasonality affects bookings to the types of travel packages that receive the highest conversion rates among consumers – leveraging some of the more unstructured...
Watch the interview with the PAW Founder, Eric Siegel. In the opening keynote session at the 2013 Predictive Analytics World conference in Boston, only two attendees raised their hands when speaker Eric Siegel asked how many people...
We ask five industry experts including heads of marketing and big data analytics to share their tips on how to get your team and organisation behind data analytics For the few stragglers who haven’t managed to be...
The analytics market has expanded. Where there was once only reactive analysis, prescriptive options have arrived, which are able to identify midsize issues and suggest timely correction. Predictive analytics has seen an upswing in adoption thanks to...
C-suite executives are at once enamored and afraid of big data. The notion of information created moment-to-moment and with every action of a company hints at massive analytics opportunity, but it can seem simultaneously overwhelming. Increasingly, IT...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) knows there are two sides to every coin. The company has achieved new power by predicting employee behavior, a profitable practice that may raise eyebrows among some of its staff. HP tags its more than...
CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data. As more organizations hire data scientists–especially for predictive analytics projects–IT leaders are discovering that managing people who can turn data into ideas...
How can the actions and reactions of proteins so small or stars so distant they are invisible to the human eye be accurately predicted? How can blurry images be brought into focus and reconstructed? A new study...
Privacy by Design, an outlook toward software development developed in the 1990s, urges companies to bake privacy protection features into its analytic systems and processes from their conception. While many executives have supported the notion of anonymizing...
