{"id":3554,"date":"2014-05-07T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2014-05-07T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:02:29","slug":"qa-data-analytics-expert-dean-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/qa-data-analytics-expert-dean-abbott\/3554\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Data and Analytics Expert Dean Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"Data scientist Dean Abbott has been focusing on data mining and predictive analytics for more than 25 years, and has authored and co-authored several books including &#8220;Applied Predictive Analytics,&#8221; &#8220;IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook&#8221; and contributed a biographical chapter to &#8220;Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers.&#8221; He has also presented at numerous analytics conferences including Predictive Analytics World, INFORMS and Gateways Analytic Network and is Smarter Remarketer&#8217;s chief data scientist. We sat down with Abbott to chat about the evolution of big data and predictive analytics, how technology has evolved to bring the benefits to more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/qa-data-analytics-expert-dean-abbott\/3554\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data scientist Dean Abbott has been focusing on data mining and predictive analytics for more than 25 years, and has authored and co-authored several books including &#8220;Applied Predictive Analytics,&#8221; &#8220;IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook&#8221; and contributed a biographical chapter to &#8220;Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers.&#8221; He has also presented at numerous analytics [&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":[11,48],"tags":[63,8],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-mining","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","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=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}