{"id":1166,"date":"2013-05-16T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/_dev\/magazine\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:44:57","slug":"prediction-will-be-hot-now-time-to-validate-the-forecast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/prediction-will-be-hot-now-time-to-validate-the-forecast-3\/1166\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPrediction Will be Hot\u201d: Now Time to Validate the Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"Toward the end of last year I suggested, predicted even, that prediction was going to be hot in our space in 2013. As we approach the halfway point of the year, it&#8217;s not a bad time to check that forecast and see where we are. After all, one of the aspects of forecasting is that it&#8217;s important to validate the forecasts and adjust your assumptions or model as needed. The world doesn&#8217;t stand still, things change, and so part of any predictive analytical process is a constant re-evaluation of the assumptions that make up your forecast. My forecast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/prediction-will-be-hot-now-time-to-validate-the-forecast-3\/1166\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of last year I suggested, predicted even, that prediction was going to be hot in our space in 2013. As we approach the halfway point of the year, it&#8217;s not a bad time to check that forecast and see where we are. After all, one of the aspects of forecasting is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-industry-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}