{"id":288,"date":"2013-02-26T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/_dev\/magazine\/?p=288"},"modified":"2013-05-21T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:01:45","slug":"interview-why-is-predictive-analytics-important-did-nate-silver-use-it-is-it-a-big-data-thing-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/interview-why-is-predictive-analytics-important-did-nate-silver-use-it-is-it-a-big-data-thing-and-more\/288\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview &#8211; Why is predictive analytics important, did Nate Silver use it, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"Eric Siegel answers these eight questions: 1. What is predictive analytics? 2. Why is predictive analytics important? 3: Isn&#8217;t prediction impossible? 4. Is predictive analytics a big data thing? 5. Did Nate Silver use predictive analytics to forecast Obama&#8217;s elections? 6. Does predictive analytics invade privacy? 7. What are the hottest trends in predictive analytics? 8. What is the coolest thing predictive analytics has done? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/interview-why-is-predictive-analytics-important-did-nate-silver-use-it-is-it-a-big-data-thing-and-more\/288\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Siegel answers these eight questions: 1. What is predictive analytics? 2. Why is predictive analytics important? 3: Isn&#8217;t prediction impossible? 4. Is predictive analytics a big data thing? 5. Did Nate Silver use predictive analytics to forecast Obama&#8217;s elections? 6. Does predictive analytics invade privacy? 7. What are the hottest trends in predictive analytics? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}