Predictive Analytics

The Greatest Power of Big Data: Predictive Analytics

By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World

Every day’s a struggle. I’ve faced some tough challenges such as which surgery to get, how to invest for my business and even how to deal with identify theft. With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. My mailbox wonders...

7 Ways Predictive Analytics Helps Retailers Manage Suppliers

By: Yan Krupnik, Marketing Manager, Retalon

One of the most challenging aspects of the retail process is the collaboration between retailers and their suppliers or vendors. No matter how prepared a retailer can be they are still dependant on the vendor to provide...

Why Don’t We Talk about Deployment?

By: Dean Abbott, President, Abbott Analytics

The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) is the leading published methodology for Data Mining (DM), and by extension, Predictive Analytics (PA). I use it routinely as I lead PA projects and when I...

What is Predictive Analytics?

By: Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor
Originally published at businessnewsdaily

Every business has a treasure trove of data, from customer and transaction information to manufacturing and shipping statistics. The key is figuring out how to use past data to better the business’ future. One strategy is for...

What Can Predictive Analytics do for Healthcare Reform?

By: Kyle Murphy, PhD
Originally published at ehrintelligence

The shift from pay-for-service to pay-for-performance in healthcare means that healthcare organizations and providers must approach care delivery in a different way, moving from diagnostic care to preventive medicine. Part of the challenge of adopting a forward-looking...

The Latest Trend in Marketing

By: Puneet Mehta, co-founder and CEO, MyCityWay
Originally Published at venturebeat

How powerful would it be for marketers to know what their customers are going to do before they actually do it? To predict how they would react to certain messages and offers, or to intervene just before...

Winning the Big Data race

Ananth Siva,managing director (Asia Pacific), [24]7
Originally published at businessspectator

It’s getting difficult to pick up a business magazine, attend a conference or even walk through an airport terminal without encountering the topics of Big Data and analytics. Everyone from IT companies to phone carriers seems to...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Vikash Singh

By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World

In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation at Predictive Analytics World Boston, "How Predictive Analytics Can Drive Marketing Strategy," we asked Vikash Singh, Director, Marketing Analytics at AutoNation, a few questions about his work in predictive analytics....

Numbers Game: Will Predictive Analytics Decide September’s Federal Election?

By: Matt Shea, journalist and writer, TheVine
Originally published at TheVine.

A week after November’s United States presidential election and Nate Silver was everywhere. Already an established member of the American political commentariat via his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver’s name went into the stratosphere after he correctly predicted the...