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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...

retail analytics

Leveraging Transformers to Improve Product Retrieval Results

 Originally published in Amazon Science, Aug 3, 2023. Assessing the absolute utility of query results, rather than just their relative utility, improves learning-to-rank models. When a customer clicks on an item in a list of product-search results, it implies that that item is better than those not clicked. “Learning to rank” models leverage such implicit

What’s Behind the Recommendation?

 Yes, we’ve all heard the slogan, “get the right product to the right person at the right time.” While practitioners have varied thoughts on how to attain this objective, there does exist, at least one tactic, that...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Michael Sims at APQC

 In anticipation of their upcoming conference co-presentation, Change Management for Establishing a Data-Driven Culture, at Predictive Analytics World for Business Chicago, June 19-22, 2017, we asked Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, Principal Research Lead at APQC and Michael Sims, Research...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Natasha Balac at Data Insight Discovery, Inc.

 In anticipation of her upcoming conference co-presentation, Identifying Unique Gamer Types Using Predictive Analytics, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, May 14-18, 2017, we asked Natasha Balac, CEO and Founder of Data Insight Discovery, Inc., a few...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Bryan Bennett at Northwestern University

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Cross-Enterprise Deployment:  Banking Visualization of Analytics Results – Critical for Communication at Predictive Analytics World for Business Chicago, June 19-22, 2017, we asked Bryan Bennett, Professor at Northwestern University, a...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: David Talby at Atigeo

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Semantic Natural Language Understanding with Spark, Machine-Learned Annotators & Deep-Learned Ontologies at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, May 14-18, 2017, we asked David Talby, Chief Technology Officer at Atigeo, a...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: George Iordanescu at Microsoft

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Predictive Analytics Solution Template for Early Prediction of Assembly Line Failures, at Predictive Analytics World Manufacturing Chicago, June 19-22, 2017, we interviewed George Iordanescu, Data Scientist at Microsoft.  View the...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Afsheen Alam at Allstate Insurance

 In anticipation of her upcoming conference presentation, Our Success with Agile Analytics at Predictive Analytics World for Business Chicago, June 19-22, 2017, we asked Afsheen Alam, Program Manager Marketing Analytics and Big Data at Allstate Insurance, a...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Jennifer Bertero at CA Technologies

 In anticipation of her upcoming conference presentation, Redefining Analytics for Marketing, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, May 14-18, 2017, we asked Jennifer Bertero, VP, Business Analytics at CA Technologies, a few questions about her work in...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Michael Dessauer at The Dow Chemical Company

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Listening Down the Value Chain: Using Text-based Predictive Models to Find New Opportunities for B-to-B Business, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, May 14-18, 2017, we asked Michael Dessauer, Data...

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