KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At the request of his probation officer, Tyrone C. Brown came to a community auditorium here in June and sat alongside about 30 other mostly young black men with criminal records — men who were being watched closely by the police, just as he was. He expected to hear an admonition
So many data scientists select an analytic technique in hopes of achieving a magical solution, but in the end, the solution simply may not even be possible due to other limiting factors. It is important for organizations...
In the past decade, Big Data solutions have become the most impactful breakthrough in the data science industry. There has never been a better time to pursue a data career to help organizations wade through the Big...
There’s conflicting opinions on when the term Big Data really came onto the scene, but it is undeniable that its notoriety has skyrocketed in the past few years. Big Data has become the hot topic buzzword around...
Are you using predictive approaches to truly leverage customer analytics? If not, I highly recommend this webinar where we’ll review predictive analytic approaches to common customer analytics tasks such as predicting likelihood to purchase or expected near-term...
If big data has reached a point where it has simply become essential to everything else, why are so many companies still struggling to put their data to good use? The big data furniture Big data used...
Editorial note: The story of a teen’s pregnancy being discovered as a result of analytics has been essentially refuted – see this article The retail sector is no stranger to change and transformation. In the early days,...
Big Data and text analytics are all the rage in the field of law today. However, there is a dearth of precise definitions of these technologies and of the understanding of what they do. This is the...
Many companies investing in advanced talent analytics are seeing the payoff, according to High-Impact Talent Analytics: Building a World-Class HR Measurement and Analytics Function, a Bersin by Deloitte study. Based on a survey of 436 North American...
In June, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced “the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.” More than 240 people were arrested and charged with stealing $712 million from Medicare. The...
