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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Predictive Analytics

Want to Know When You’ll Die? ‘Big Data’ Could Tell You

 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

Big Data 101: Colleges are hoping predictive analytics can fix their graduation rates

  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...

6 ways providers can employ predictive analytics

 For more case studies in predictive healthcare, see Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare, October 6-7, 2014 in Boston. Six use cases highlight how healthcare could harness big data to improve care and cut costs for high-risk patients,...

When a Health Plan Knows How You Shop

 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...

Predictive Analytics Helps Vodafone Ring Up Sales

 The European telecom provider turns to a predictive analytics solution to improve its forecasting capabilities, predict customer behavior and boost performance. Understanding the rapid and radical pace of change in today’s business environment is no simple task....

Making The Business Case For Predictive Talent Analytics

 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...

Did Target Really Predict a Teen’s Pregnancy? The Inside Story

 We examine the origin and the facts behind this explosive story, the importance of headlines, and how unsubstantiated assumptions gain traction and mainstream attention and help create myths around Predictive Analytics. “How Target Figured Out A Teen...

Q&A with Data and Analytics Expert Dean Abbott

 Data scientist Dean Abbott has been focusing on data mining and predictive analytics for more than 25 years, and has authored and co-authored several books including “Applied Predictive Analytics,” “IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook” and contributed a biographical...

Big Data With a Personal Touch: The Convergence of Predictive Analytics and Positive Deviance

 Background Over the last few years, the triple aim has taken center stage in health care. Through more effective identification of individuals at higher risk, health care systems can become more strategic about resource allocation in order...

Social Security to step up fraud detection with predictive analytics

 Two major fraud incidents in the past year have spurred the Social Security Administration to step up its fraud detection and prevention efforts through the use of better analytics. The result is a  fraud prevention unit dedicated...

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