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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...

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The Power of Data Science for Predictive Maintenance is Only Just Being Tapped

 Future of Automotive Servicing and Preventive Maintenance Several months ago there was a news item which compared how Tesla, the electric car company addressed a potential recall situation, with how a traditional car company addressed a similar situation. Tesla released a fix “over-the-air” or OTA – which is essentially a software update, like the kind your smartphones go

Opportunities and Challenges: Predictive Analytics for IoT

 There is a clear sense in the marketplace today that for the internet of things (IoT) to realize its true potential as the next-big-thing, analytics is going to be critical. After all what is the purpose of connecting...

Predictive Analytics Can Help with the Challenges Facing Manufacturing in the 21st Century

 Historically, data and analytics have been key to the success of manufacturing. The biggest contributor to the success of the 100+ year old assembly line technology was the development of interchangeable parts. Clearly, data was central to...

Will IoT Transform Location Prediction for Labor Cost Tracking?

 The use of wireless technology for asset tracking has taken off over the last decade. Consumer retail was the first industry to adopt this technology for location services by tagging product pallets with radio frequency ID (RFID) tags....

4 Key Thrust Areas for Predictive Analytics World – Manufacturing 2016

 As we move to year 3 of the Predictive Analytics World – Manufacturing annual conference, we are continuing to build on the momentum from the first two years. Our primary focus areas have remained more or less the...

3 Big Data Use Cases for Manufacturing Analytics

 We have executed a multitude of data science projects in the manufacturing vertical. While most of them were done without the help of big data tools, we think most of them will require such capabilities as we expand the...

Wise Practitioner – Manufacturing Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Field Cady at Think Big Analytics

 In anticipation of his upcoming Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing conference presentation, Staying Ahead of Failure: Parametric Data and Analytics in High-Tech Manufacturing, we interviewed Field Cady, Senior Data Scientist at Think Big Analytics. View the Q-and-A below to see how...

Wise Practitioner – Manufacturing Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Jeffrey Thompson of Robert Bosch, LLC

 In anticipation of his upcoming Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing conference presentation, Manufacturing Analytics at Scale: Data Mining and Machine Learning inside Bosch, we interviewed Jeffrey Thompson, Senior Data Scientist at Robert Bosch, LLC. View the Q-and-A below to see how...

Wise Practitioner – Manufacturing Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Kumar Satyam of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

 In anticipation of his upcoming Predictive Analytics World for Manufacturing conference co-presentation, Utilizing On Board Technologies To Improve Maintenance Practices in Airlines, we interviewed Kumar Satyam, Manager, Advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. View the Q-and-A below to see how Kumar Satyam has...

Bala Deshpande, Founder & Principal, SimaFore

Bala Deshpande has extensive experience that ranges from start-ups to Fortune 5 international firms where he has demonstrated strong leadership and initiative in solving complex business problems. He has nearly two decades of consulting experience in fields...