{"id":2531,"date":"2013-10-22T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2013-10-22T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:09:56","slug":"deathtrap-overlearning-in-predictive-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/deathtrap-overlearning-in-predictive-analytics\/2531\/","title":{"rendered":"Deathtrap: Overlearning in Predictive Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"I am in the process of gathering survey data for the TDWI Predictive Analytics Best Practices Report.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m in the data analysis phase.\u00a0 It turns out (not surprisingly) that one of the biggest barriers to adoption of predictive analytics is understanding how the technology works.\u00a0 Education is definitely needed as more advanced forms of analytics move out to less experienced users. With regard to education, coincidentally I had the pleasure of speaking to Eric Siegel recently about his book, \u201cPredictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die\u201d (www.thepredictionbook.com). Eric Siegel is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/deathtrap-overlearning-in-predictive-analytics\/2531\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the process of gathering survey data for the TDWI Predictive Analytics Best Practices Report.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m in the data analysis phase.\u00a0 It turns out (not surprisingly) that one of the biggest barriers to adoption of predictive analytics is understanding how the technology works.\u00a0 Education is definitely needed as more advanced forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[171,6,172,173,174,8],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-big-data-analytics","tag-eric-siegel","tag-fern-halper","tag-overfitting","tag-overlearning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","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=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}