{"id":5688,"date":"2015-07-06T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:53:14","slug":"predictive-analytics-tools-point-to-better-business-decisions0706151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/predictive-analytics-tools-point-to-better-business-decisions0706151\/5688\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictive Analytics Tools Point to Better Business Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"Predictive analytics lets organizations look ahead in an effort to optimize business strategies. But there has to be a purpose to the analytics efforts, and a solid plan behind them. From recommending additional purchases based on the items that customers place in online shopping carts to pinpointing hospital patients who have a greater risk of readmission, the use of predictive analytics tools and techniques is enabling organizations to tap their collections of data to predict future business outcomes &#8212; if the process is managed properly. Predictive analytics has become an increasingly hot topic in analytics circles as more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/predictive-analytics-tools-point-to-better-business-decisions0706151\/5688\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictive analytics lets organizations look ahead in an effort to optimize business strategies. But there has to be a purpose to the analytics efforts, and a solid plan behind them. From recommending additional purchases based on the items that customers place in online shopping carts to pinpointing hospital patients who have a greater risk of [&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":[91,8],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-scientists","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","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=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5689,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}