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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 turns out, is useful for improving decisions and efficiencies of organizations. No surprises here for this audience...
By: Dr. Eric Siegel, Executive Editor, Predictive Analytics Times
There's a surprising twist. While some question whether the prescient machines that drive decisions by way of induction and prediction are trustworthy, an emerging problem is that they often predict too well. Predictive technology is so powerful,...
We live in an era of Big Data and predictive analytics, and Nate Silver's not the only one who's noticed this. I recently sat down with Dr. Eric Siegel to talk about new book, Predictive Analytics: The...
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 modeling algorithms do. Even rule-based approaches need...
By: Dr. Eric Siegel, Executive Editor, Predictive Analytics Times
Good morning. It's January 2, 2020, the first workday of the year. As you drive to the office, the only thing predictive analytics doesn't do for you is steer the car (yet that's coming soon as well)...
By: Tom Reamy, chair, Conference Program Chair, Text Analytics World
At the Boston Text Analytics World, held on October 3-4, one of the themes of the conference was the future of text analytics. The program chair, Tom Reamy, gave a keynote presentation on that theme,
Elections hang by a thinner thread than you think...
Why should one go to a predictive analytics conference? What should one take home from a conference like PAW? There are lots of reasons conferences are valuable including interacting with thought leaders and practitioners during sessions and...
We all know that given reasonable data, a good predictive modeler can build a model that works well and helps make makes better decisions than what is currently used in your organization (at least in our own...
