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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Data scientist

Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?

 Originally published in Harvard Business Review, July 15, 2022.  Ten years ago we published the article “Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Most casual readers probably remember only the “sexiest” modifier — a comment on their demand in the marketplace. The role was relatively new at the time, but as more companies attempted to

Uplift Modeling: Making Predictive Models Actionable

 Predictive models typically estimate the likelihood of future events, such as whether it will rain tomorrow or which customers are most likely to “churn” by cancelling their phone contract.  In the case of the weather, we do...

Data Story Telling: Bringing Life to Your Data

 There is no doubt that a successful Data Scientist must be proficient in programming, modeling, and data munging (extracting, cleaning, and feature engineering data).  However, there is another key skill that is often overlooked:  the ability to...

Need a Data Scientist? Try Building a ‘DataScienceStein’

 Organizations are finding that hiring qualified Data Scientists is a real challenge. Experienced Data Scientists are expensive and are usually employed elsewhere. This high demand, low supply economics is leading to a situation of the ‘haves’ versus...

Predictive Analytics World Founder Eric Siegel Joins DMWay Analytics Advisory Board

 DMWay Analytics, leading innovator of predictive analytics automation solutions, announced today that Eric Siegel, one of the top 10 data science thought leaders, will serve as an advisory board member. Eric Siegel and Gil Nizri at the...

Feature Engineering within the Predictive Analytics Process — Part One

 What is Feature Engineering One of the growing discussions and debates within the data science community is the determination of inputs or variables that should be included in any predictive analytics algorithm. This type of process is...

Dr. Data’s Music Video: The Predictive Analytics Rap

 With today’s release of “Predict This!” – the rap video by yours truly (a former university professor trying to be a pop star) – I took the opportunity to ask a few questions of the music video’s...

Mid-Life Journey to Data Science

 Data Science has been hailed as the sexiest job of the 21st century. This news has understandably had an influence over today’s college undergraduates and even high school students. But can a person who is mid-career —...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Ken Elliott at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Operationalizing Analytics: 10 Key Process Areas for Embedding Predictive Analytics into Business Operations, Applications and Machines, at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, April 3-7, 2016, we asked Ken Elliott, Global...

Data Scientist – One of the Most Promising Jobs Of 2016

 To determine their list of the 25 Best Jobs in America for 2016, job search and salary comparison site Glassdoor culled jobs with the highest overall score across three categories: earning potential, career opportunities, and number of job...

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