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 arena of emerging start-up companies aiming to focus on it. Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps.
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...
Last year, a life insurance agent came to Nathan DeWall’s Lexington, Kentucky, home to weigh him, take his blood pressure and ask a litany of health- and life-related questions to predict when the 34-year-old would die. A...
Welcome to college, freshmen. Now look at the neighbor on your left, and the neighbor on your right. One of the three of you won’t be here at graduation. Decades ago, colleges would start off freshmen...
While other analytics methods analyze past events, monitor real-time ones, or provide operational reporting, predictive analytics attempts to divine the future. For this reason, predictive analytics resides at the bleeding edge of data science. But predictive analytics...
For more case studies in predictive healthcare, see Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare, October 6-7, 2014 in Boston. You may soon get a call from your doctor if you’ve let your gym membership lapse, made a habit...
For more case studies in predictive healthcare, see Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare, October 6-7, 2014 in Boston. Koren Shadmi There may be a link between your Internet use and how often you end up in the...
