{"id":4259,"date":"2014-11-14T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2014-11-07T00:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T00:13:58","slug":"prescriptive-versus-predictive-analytics-distinction-without-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/prescriptive-versus-predictive-analytics-distinction-without-difference\/4259\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptive versus Predictive Analytics &#8211; A Distinction without a Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"Summary:\u00a0 Is the addition of \u201cPrescriptive\u201d analytics to our nomenclature really worthwhile or are we just confusing our customers? I admit to being annoyed when this or that industry wag tries to coin a new term to describe some portion of the discipline we are already practicing.\u00a0 Some of these folks I think are well intentioned and believe they have seen an area sufficiently unique to deserve separate description. Some I believe are motivated more by the ability to sell more reports if there are now two disciplines to be ranked and rated instead of just one. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/prescriptive-versus-predictive-analytics-distinction-without-difference\/4259\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:\u00a0 Is the addition of \u201cPrescriptive\u201d analytics to our nomenclature really worthwhile or are we just confusing our customers? I admit to being annoyed when this or that industry wag tries to coin a new term to describe some portion of the discipline we are already practicing.\u00a0 Some of these folks I think are well [&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-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","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=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}