Are you using predictive approaches to truly leverage customer analytics? If not, I highly recommend this webinar where we’ll review predictive analytic approaches to common customer analytics tasks such as predicting likelihood to purchase or expected near-term customer value. Presented by: Dean Abbott, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, SmarterHQ Thu, Oct 8, 2015 1:00 PM
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