The key question that organizations ALWAYS ask when undertaking an analytics initiative is “Can they guarantee value from the project?” They want to know whether the return on their investment will be positive. But they want this guarantee before any data, the technical infrastructure, or other relevant details about the analytics environment have been assessed.
By James Gottshall, Vice President, Strategic Analytics at XL Catlin This article covers a similar theme to the Keynote presentation James Gottshall will deliver at PAW Financial, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2017 in New York. Think about a...
For more on predictive analytics for healthcare, attend Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare New York, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2017. With widespread usage of electronic medical records, big data has truly arrived in healthcare. In addition to...
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...
The Employee Cost Curve It is simple enough to document the hard costs that make up the initial stages of employee life-cycle. This section will walk through the major cost areas, but the specifics will depend on...
Talent Analytics, Corp. has a unique approach to workforce predictive analytics. At our firm, we measure success by how our projects quantifiably benefit the Line of Business. We watch it, track it, and report success. Our algorithms...
Artificial intelligence seems to be the latest term which is capturing the not only the predictive analytics discipline’s attention but the general public as well as seen by the many articles in much of the mainstream media....
By Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets Originally published in KDnuggets The popular job site Glassdoor published a list of 50 Best Jobs in America, and Data Scientist is again the no. 1 job in USA, with Job score 4.8...
Originally published in CivicHall.org For the past week or so, an article titled “The Data That Turned the World Upside Down” has been following me around like a bad headcold. The article tells a compelling “whodunit” story...
Everyone is wanting to learn more about how Machine Learning can be used in their business. What’s interesting though is that many companies may already be using Machine Learning to some extent without really realising it. The...