Department store conglomerate Target Brands Inc. knows when its female customers are pregnant long before they start buying cribs. Google Inc. was able to track the H1N1 flu in real-time using Internet search queries when the government couldn’t. Parole and sentencing decisions in some states are influenced by software that predicts the likelihood of a
Was 2013 the Year of Talent Analytics? I think it’s safe to say that “2013 was the year of talent analytics”. Global discussions about talent analytics, as a concept, have certainly been great for our brand,...
The rapidly rising term “Data Scientist” caught up with “Statistician” and surpassed “Data Miner” on Google Trends. However, Statistics remains a lot more popular than “Data Science”, which begs the question: What do Data Scientists do? Clearly,...
As I frequently travel in data science circles, I’m hearing more and more about a new kind of tech war: Python vs. R. I’ve lived through many tech wars in the past, e.g. Windows vs. Linux, iPhone...
While heaps of big data exist in the travel sector – from how seasonality affects bookings to the types of travel packages that receive the highest conversion rates among consumers – leveraging some of the more unstructured...
CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data. As more organizations hire data scientists–especially for predictive analytics projects–IT leaders are discovering that managing people who can turn data into ideas...
Pasha Roberts will present at PAW San Francisco on this case study. A call center for a global financial firm had a problem – attrition. In order for a new employee to even be permitted to speak...
Predictive modeling offers the key to understanding which healthcare services most affect utilization, readmissions, and payment, and how to tackle the outliers. These analytics are within the grasp of any healthcare system. Somewhere out there, a hospital...
A controversial new Army plan would predict which soldiers might kill themselves, potentially enabling military to provide mental health counseling and other services to treat troubled troops. Even as thousands of U.S. servicemembers were dying in Iraq...
Michael Berry is taking a stand against the big data hype. More data, said the analytics director for travel website TripAdvisor, doesn’t always mean better business results. Case in point: big data and predictive analytics. “Many predictive...
