Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

  By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World Originally published in Analytics Magazine Book: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil (Crown, September 2016) Book review bottom line:...

Sound Data Science: Avoiding the Most Pernicious Prediction Pitfall

By Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics World Original published in OR/MS Today In this excerpt from the updated edition of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, Revised and Updated Edition, I show that, although data science and...