Dean Silverman keynoted at Predictive Analytics World for government, September 15-18, to see more on the conference click here. Dean Silverman, head of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Compliance Analytics, leads the charge to transform taxpayer data into actionable intelligence about fraud, underpayment by filers, overpayment of refunds by the Treasury and identity theft,
Data mining techniques come in two main forms: supervised (also known as predictive or directed) and unsupervised (also known as descriptive or undirected). Both categories encompass functions capable of finding different hidden patterns in large data sets....
From clean water supplies to the polio vaccine, the most effective public health interventions are typically preventative policies that help stop a crisis before it starts. But predicting the next public health crisis has historically been a...
Many utilities are realizing that the huge amount of granular data coming at them can be leveraged to tackle their biggest challenges, such as distributed generation and engaging consumers beyond traditional power delivery. A growing number of...
For more case studies in HR analytics, see Predictive Analytics World for Workforce, March 31-April 1, 2015 in San Francisco. A good deal of HR analytics is about studying trends and investigating the driving forces behind those...
This New York Times article addresses what most predictive analytics practitioners refer to as data preparation. Although it uses other terms to refer to that, it draws a good birds-eye-view vantage on the topic, and covers an...
In 2009, Alexander S. White, a former Universal Music Group intern, co-founded a company called Next Big Sound that analyzed vast amounts of data about musicians — from Twitter activity to Wikipedia searches to radio appearances —...
To learn more about talent analytics, attend Predictive Analytics World for Workforce As the economy improves, demand for new hires is rising as more departing and retiring employees leave openings to fill. With increased voluntary turnover, organizations...
With massive amounts of our personal data now being routinely collected and stored, privacy breaches are almost inevitable In the era of big data, the battle for privacy has already been fought and lost – personal data...
For more case studies in employee churn, see Predictive Analytics World for Workforce, March 31-April 1, 2015 in San Francisco. Greta Roberts will be keynoting. The importance of finding the right employee from the start may seem...
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