Predictive Analytics
Based on the amount of retailers that have been forced to shut their doors in 2015 alone, there is a major shift that is moving through the retail industry at full force. (Here’s the list of stores closed so far this year.) We’ve been talking about this for a while, and now retailers are feeling
By: Venkatesh Seshachar, Principal Consultant & Pradeep Rao, Senior Data Scientist, Wipro
In the increasingly patient-centric world of healthcare, predictive analytics has taken firm hold as a means for healthcare organizations to improve patient outcomes. Predictive models for determining patient responses to medication, lowering hospital readmission rates, assessing risk...
By: Larry Alton, Independent business consultant
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Predictive analytics sounds almost mystical, and in a way, it is. By studying complex, almost impermeable data about the past, you can chart trends that course well into the future. While predictive analytics can’t predict the future...
By: Avery Earwood, VP of Analytics and Data Science, Evariant
The use of analytics in healthcare is gaining momentum as the industry shifts to a value-based delivery model. Hospitals and health systems are searching for the ability to identify patient activity, reduce cost, and increase the level...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Predictive Analytics for Project Management – Cost Avoidance, at Predictive Analytics World Boston, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2015, we asked Scott Lancaster, Vice President at State Street Corp., a few questions...
Our predictive workforce assignments yield staggering results; saving / making businesses millions of real, measurable dollars. Often this yield is in a single project. Business ROI with these predictive projects is so significant, I wanted to share...
There’s conflicting opinions on when the term Big Data really came onto the scene, but it is undeniable that its notoriety has skyrocketed in the past few years. Big Data has become the hot topic buzzword around...
Editorial note: The story of a teen’s pregnancy being discovered as a result of analytics has been essentially refuted – see this article The retail sector is no stranger to change and transformation. In the early days,...
By: Mark Kerzner, Chief Product Architect, LexInnova
Originally published at https://bol.bna.com
Big Data and text analytics are all the rage in the field of law today. However, there is a dearth of precise definitions of these technologies and of the understanding of what they do. This is the...
By: John A. Cassara, industry consultant, SAS Federal.
Originally published at http://gcn.com
In June, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced “the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.” More than 240 people were arrested and charged with stealing $712 million from Medicare. The...
