{"id":6663,"date":"2015-10-23T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:23:56","slug":"usps-oig-vet-analytics-can-make-audits-help-not-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/usps-oig-vet-analytics-can-make-audits-help-not-hurt\/6663\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS OIG Vet: Analytics Can Make Audits Help, Not Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"Big data and analytics can make an auditor&#8217;s job easier and more effective. But the auditor must be prepared to face resistance from the organizations he or she scrutinizes &#8212; and from within. &#8220;Human beings are wired for survival,&#8221; said Bryan Jones, former director of the U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s Data Mining Group in the Office of Inspector General, at the Predictive Analytics World Government conference in Washington. &#8220;They&#8217;re not wired for truth.&#8221; Jones, who is now director and program manager at Elder Research, reminded would-be innovators of the resistance they could face from people eager to hold onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/usps-oig-vet-analytics-can-make-audits-help-not-hurt\/6663\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big data and analytics can make an auditor&#8217;s job easier and more effective. But the auditor must be prepared to face resistance from the organizations he or she scrutinizes &#8212; and from within. &#8220;Human beings are wired for survival,&#8221; said Bryan Jones, former director of the U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s Data Mining Group in the Office [&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":[59,42,552],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","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=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6664,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}