This Newsweek article, originally published in Newsweek’s opinion section and excerpted here, resulted from the author’s research for a new extended sidebar on the topic that will appear in the forthcoming Revised and Updated, paperback edition of Eric Siegel’s Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die (coming January 6, 2016). Preorder
For more on the analytics of the Internet of Things, attend Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing, June 8-11, 2015 in Chicago. Let’s kick this post off with a quick quiz. Read each statement below and determine if...
Privacy by Design, an outlook toward software development developed in the 1990s, urges companies to bake privacy protection features into its analytic systems and processes from their conception. While many executives have supported the notion of anonymizing...
Expanded rules for data sharing in the U.S. government will need more oversight as predictive algorithms are applied. Last winter, around the same time there was a huge row in Congress over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
