5 years ago
Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Josh Hemann of Activision

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Cheating Detection in Call of Duty, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2015, we asked Josh Hemann, Director – Analytic Services at Activision, a few questions about his work in predictive analytics. Q: In your work with predictive analytics, what behavior do your models predict? A: My team focuses on integrating analytics into large scale, operational processes for our online, multiplayer games, and mostly for the Call of Duty franchise. A lot of that work is more about optimization rather than prediction per se. But one area that is certainly prediction/classification