data science
With today’s release of “Predict This!” – the rap video by yours truly (a former university professor trying to be a pop star) – I took the opportunity to ask a few questions of the music video’s featured character, Dr. Data. Here is the video, followed by my interview with Dr. Data:
Data Science has been hailed as the sexiest job of the 21st century. This news has understandably had an influence over today’s college undergraduates and even high school students. But can a person who is mid-career —...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Operationalizing Analytics: 10 Key Process Areas for Embedding Predictive Analytics into Business Operations, Applications and Machines, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, April 3-7, 2016, we asked Ken Elliott, Global...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Predicting the Extent and Cost of Online Attacks to Help Sell Security Software, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, April 3-7, 2016, we asked Lawrence Cowan, Partner at Cicero Group,...
PayPal is using advanced predictive data analysis to help protect its users from fraud and preserve the service’s brand. Constant evolution is the key to PayPal’s success. Scam artists continually find new ways to defraud unsuspecting people,...
A 21st century gold rush is under way — but it isn’t about precious metal, it’s about data. The amount of information coming from digital sources such as blogs, social media, databases, audio, and video continues to...
By: Kathryn Dill, Contributor, Forbes
Originally published at Forbes
To determine their list of the 25 Best Jobs in America for 2016, job search and salary comparison site Glassdoor culled jobs with the highest overall score across three categories: earning potential, career opportunities, and number of job...
The world of big data and data science can often seem complex or even arcane from the outside looking in. In business, a lot of people by now probably understand the basics of what Big Data analysis involves –...
Would skipping breakfast kill you? Not necessarily—but confusing correlation and causation might. Find out why in this article, originally published in Quartz and adapted from Eric Siegel’s recently-released Revised and Updated, edition of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who...
Here is the Hands-On Guide that appears at the end the Revised and Updated paperback edition of Eric Siegel’s Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die. Although the book Predictive Analytics...
