{"id":1597,"date":"2013-03-05T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2013-06-05T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:40:43","slug":"do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-math-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-math-2\/1597\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math?"},"content":{"rendered":"Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math? Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn\u2019t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations, integrals, multiplies and adds are the core of what predictive modeling algorithms do. Even rule-based approaches need math to compute how good the if-then-else rules are. I was participating in a predictive analytics course recently and the question a participant asked at the end of two days of instruction was this: \u201cit\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve had to do this kind of math and I\u2019m a bit rusty. Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/do-predictive-modelers-need-to-know-math-2\/1597\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math? Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn\u2019t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations, integrals, multiplies and adds are the core of what predictive modeling algorithms do. Even rule-based approaches need math to compute how good the if-then-else rules are. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}