{"id":7892,"date":"2016-07-26T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:02:32","slug":"getting-started-predictive-analytics-interview-eric-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/getting-started-predictive-analytics-interview-eric-siegel\/7892\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Predictive Analytics &#8211; an Interview with Eric Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"Data science and predictive analytics are top of mind &#8211; but how do you get started? I had the chance to interview Eric Siegel, founder of Predictive Analytics World, the leading conference series, and author of the popular, award-winning Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which earlier this year released its Revised and Updated edition. Do you think that people can teach themselves data science? There&#8217;s always a balance between learn-by-doing and more formal educational resources, and it varies by individual. I will say this, though: Even the deepest, most senior, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/getting-started-predictive-analytics-interview-eric-siegel\/7892\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data science and predictive analytics are top of mind &#8211; but how do you get started? I had the chance to interview Eric Siegel, founder of Predictive Analytics World, the leading conference series, and author of the popular, award-winning Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which earlier this [&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":[3],"tags":[166,8,198],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories","tag-data-science","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-uplift-modeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","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=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}