As you might have heard before if you read McKinsey reports, the New York Times or just about any technology news site, data scientists are in high demand. Heck, the Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. But landing a gig as a data scientist isn’t easy — especially a
Expanded rules for data sharing in the U.S. government will need more oversight as predictive algorithms are applied. Last winter, around the same time there was a huge row in Congress over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
Eric Siegel, author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, talks about data mining and predictive analysis. What do these terms mean, and how accurate are they in determining people’s...
Predictive analytics is technology that not only gives organizations the power to predict the future but also to influence the future. And the reason it has that difference is because predictive analytics predicts for you, me, everyone...
Technological advancements are helping financial institutions and law enforcement combat bank fraud and money laundering more efficiently, according to Jennifer Shaskey Calvery, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department....
What do we see in Predictive Models? Predictive Analytics is one of the hottest careers on the tech scene these days and with good reason: data is being collected in ever greater amounts, and this data, it...
Miami-Dade County has turned to predictive analytics to catch crooks, slash costs, improve transparency across agencies and provide better service for residents Over the last few years, government organizations have been squeezed from two sides: They’re under...
This video answers the question of predictive analytics invading your privacy and the power of predictive analytics. (more…)
If you’ve ever watched Jeopardy! you’ll be impressed with what predictive analytics achieved on this show. Eric Siegel describes the coolest thing predictive analytics has done. (more…)
The Obama campaign’s chief data scientist Rayid Ghani will once again keynote at Predictive Analytics World in Chicago, June 10-13, 2013 Much has been written about the Obama campaign’s technological advantage in the last election and...
