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 greater pressure than ever to perform at a high level, and many have faced harsh budget cuts. Miami-Dade
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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...
Some of the key figures responsible for the digital strategy behind President Barack Obama’s successful 2012 campaign are taking their battle plans to the private sector. Joe Rospars, chief digital strategist for Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns,...
The art of putting Big Data to practical use is still young, but it’s already more pervasive than you probably realize, says a new book. FORTUNE — Early last year, you might recall, Target found itself at...
At Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, predicting the future is the business. Using a combination of big data and scoring analytics, the company helps insurers assess their risk and streamline their underwriting. Eighteen months ago, CMO Lisa Agona...
For years, savvy shoppers have turned to the newspaper to find the best deals at the local grocery store. But new technologies are taking a bite out of the printed coupons, and a Kirkland company by the...
Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math? Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations, integrals, multiplies and adds are the core of what predictive...
