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 few weeks later, DeWall received an envelope in the mail, containing the result: He would live to be
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...
Load One expediter Tom Evans drives team with his wife, Tina, running a three-truck Class 8 straight truck fleet based in Mattoon, Ill. Besides their compensation for doing their jobs the right way, the Evanses are...
Big Data is often associated with big vendors—the likes of IBM, Oracle and SAP. But the industry is also full of up and comers and niche specialists that could make an impact on a market said...
As interest in machine learning has grown, its definition has expanded to include a panoply of techniques for automating knowledge and pattern discovery from fresh data Data scientists are professionals who use the most appropriate tools...
Choosing the right keywords for search is the most important component of getting the results you’re looking for. Everyone knows this, but it’s easier said than done. Even with the most well thought out keywords, search results...
A financial services powerhouse faced a 60 percent turnover rate among its 30,000 call-center reps. Leveraging predictive talent analytics, the organization reduced turnover by 30 percent and saved $5 million in the first year alone. A major...
