Editorial note: The story of a teen’s pregnancy being discovered as a result of analytics has been essentially refuted – see this article The retail sector is no stranger to change and transformation. In the early days, the average consumer was shopping from ‘mom and pop’ stores in communities. As retail evolved, first to arrive
Big Data and text analytics are all the rage in the field of law today. However, there is a dearth of precise definitions of these technologies and of the understanding of what they do. This is the...
Many companies investing in advanced talent analytics are seeing the payoff, according to High-Impact Talent Analytics: Building a World-Class HR Measurement and Analytics Function, a Bersin by Deloitte study. Based on a survey of 436 North American...
In June, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced “the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.” More than 240 people were arrested and charged with stealing $712 million from Medicare. The...
In the healthcare industry, “big data analytics” is a term that can encompass nearly everything that is done to a piece of information once it begins its digital life. From flagging drug interactions to predicting sepsis, modeling...
The excitement over “big data” has grown dramatically. But what is the value, the function, the purpose? The most actionable win to be gained from data is prediction. This is achieved by analytically learning from data how...
Activision allowed two of their most credentialed employees to host a PAX ’15 panel on the role users play in game development. PhDs Justin Shacklette and Spencer Stirling spent nearly an hour explaining how the company is...
Gartner, the leading market and technology research firm, has published its 2015 Hype Cycle Report of Emerging technologies. Fig. 1: Gartner 2015 Hype Cycle. For comparison, here is Fig. 2: Gartner 2014 Hype Cycle. What’s the Hype...
Predictive modeling methods and systems will revolutionize virtually all aspects of how healthcare is organized, delivered, and paid for in the near future. But what will that future look like? What are the skill sets that will...
Everyone is running around talking about big data nowadays – and yes, our databases are immense. A gigabyte used to sound like a lot. Today, we talk about terabytes without blinking. But big data didn’t grow up...