{"id":6626,"date":"2015-10-14T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2015-10-14T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:19:04","slug":"business-focus-is-key-when-applying-predictive-analytics-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/business-focus-is-key-when-applying-predictive-analytics-models\/6626\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Focus is Key when Applying Predictive Analytics Models"},"content":{"rendered":"Predictive analytics modeling requires statistical and technical prowess, but modelers shouldn&#8217;t overlook the business problem they&#8217;re trying to solve. At the oil and gas drilling company Halliburton, traditional BI is still important, but there is a growing emphasis on predictive analytics models. One company official said this trend is going to be the key to differentiating the Houston-based firm from its competitors and making it more successful. At the oil and gas drilling company Halliburton, traditional BI is still important, but there is a growing emphasis on predictive analytics models. One company official said this trend is going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/business-focus-is-key-when-applying-predictive-analytics-models\/6626\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictive analytics modeling requires statistical and technical prowess, but modelers shouldn&#8217;t overlook the business problem they&#8217;re trying to solve. At the oil and gas drilling company Halliburton, traditional BI is still important, but there is a growing emphasis on predictive analytics models. One company official said this trend is going to be the key to [&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":[8,7],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-predictive-analytics-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","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=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}