{"id":5435,"date":"2015-05-29T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2015-05-27T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:25:53","slug":"can-predictive-analytics-help-your-small-business-0529153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/can-predictive-analytics-help-your-small-business-0529153\/5435\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Predictive Analytics Help Your Small Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"No longer relegated to the realm of big business, predictive analytics is taking its place in the toolboxes of many smaller companies. The power to crunch numbers and inform strategic decisions can be an important asset, especially when resources are lean. If you&#8217;re curious, this article explains the difference between predictive analytics and business intelligence. Before you can effectively use predictive analytics to your small business advantage, you need to understand what the technologies can do. Fred Shilmover, CEO of business analytics firm InsightSquared, explains that predictive analytics is a three-part formula. &#8220;It&#8217;s looking at the past performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/can-predictive-analytics-help-your-small-business-0529153\/5435\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No longer relegated to the realm of big business, predictive analytics is taking its place in the toolboxes of many smaller companies. The power to crunch numbers and inform strategic decisions can be an important asset, especially when resources are lean. If you&#8217;re curious, this article explains the difference between predictive analytics and business intelligence. [&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-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","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=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}