{"id":8034,"date":"2016-08-23T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:39:48","slug":"of-prediction-and-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/of-prediction-and-policy\/8034\/","title":{"rendered":"Of prediction and policy"},"content":{"rendered":"For more on government applications of predictive analytics, see Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016 in Washington, DC. Governments have much to gain from applying algorithms to public policy, but controversies loom For frazzled teachers struggling to decide what to watch on an evening off, help is at hand. An online streaming service\u2019s software predicts what they might enjoy, based on the past choices of similar people. When those same teachers try to work out which children are most at risk of dropping out of school, they get no such aid. But, as Sendhil Mullainathan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/of-prediction-and-policy\/8034\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more on government applications of predictive analytics, see Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016 in Washington, DC. Governments have much to gain from applying algorithms to public policy, but controversies loom For frazzled teachers struggling to decide what to watch on an evening off, help is at hand. An online streaming service\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}