Jeff Deal (deal datamininglab com) is the vice president of operations for Elder Research, a data mining and predictive analytics consultancy, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also the program chair for the inaugural Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare conference, in Boston, Massachusetts, October 6–7, 2014. Big data is all the buzz! Anyone connected with
For more case studies in employee churn, see Predictive Analytics World for Workforce, March 31-April 1, 2015 in San Francisco. Greta Roberts will be keynoting. The importance of finding the right employee from the start may seem...
Last year, a life insurance agent came to Nathan DeWall’s Lexington, Kentucky, home to weigh him, take his blood pressure and ask a litany of health- and life-related questions to predict when the 34-year-old would die. A...
Capgemini and Cloudera have created the new infographic below on how organizations can maximize their Big Data potential. Capgemini and Cloudera recently announced an extended partnership to help organizations accelerate their Big Data initiatives. As part of the...
Chief Data Scientist John Foreman will be presenting at Predictive Analytics World Boston (Oct 5 – 9) on “Problems, then Techniques, then Toys. Keeping Your Predictive Analytics Right-side Up.” When we think “data science,” most of the...
Welcome to college, freshmen. Now look at the neighbor on your left, and the neighbor on your right. One of the three of you won’t be here at graduation. Decades ago, colleges would start off freshmen...
For more case studies in predictive healthcare, see Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare, October 6-7, 2014 in Boston. Six use cases highlight how healthcare could harness big data to improve care and cut costs for high-risk patients,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration generated some buzz with its February RFI seeking solutions for how to make its 20 terabytes of daily data available quickly and at scale. Now sharing only about 10 percent of...
For more case studies in predictive analytics government, see Predictive Analytics World for Government, September 15-18, 2014 in Boston. Cutting edge data-driven analysis directs Los Angeles patrol officers to likely future crime scenes – but critics worry...
While other analytics methods analyze past events, monitor real-time ones, or provide operational reporting, predictive analytics attempts to divine the future. For this reason, predictive analytics resides at the bleeding edge of data science. But predictive analytics...
