{"id":4257,"date":"2014-11-13T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2014-11-07T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T00:09:09","slug":"single-best-predictive-modeling-technique-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/single-best-predictive-modeling-technique-seriously\/4257\/","title":{"rendered":"The Single Best Predictive Modeling Technique. Seriously."},"content":{"rendered":"I read two strangely similar articles last week. One was an article by Vincent Granville, entitled &#8220;The 8 worst predictive modeling techniques&#8221;. The other was an article on Forbes entitled &#8220;America&#8217;s 10 Best-Paying Jobs&#8221;. What on Earth do these two articles have in common (other than both being lists)? A brief flick through the Forbes article reveals that it could almost as accurately have been entitled &#8220;America&#8217;s Single Best Paying Job&#8221;: because 9 out of the 10 jobs listed were in healthcare. Likewise Granville&#8217;s article, which is packed with excellent and accurate detail, really has one central point: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/single-best-predictive-modeling-technique-seriously\/4257\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read two strangely similar articles last week. One was an article by Vincent Granville, entitled &#8220;The 8 worst predictive modeling techniques&#8221;. The other was an article on Forbes entitled &#8220;America&#8217;s 10 Best-Paying Jobs&#8221;. What on Earth do these two articles have in common (other than both being lists)? A brief flick through the Forbes [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","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=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}