At Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, predicting the future is the business. Using a combination of big data and scoring analytics, the company helps insurers assess their risk and streamline their underwriting. Eighteen months ago, CMO Lisa Agona determined it was time to apply predictive analytics to the company’s marketing efforts. “We had been talking about
For years, savvy shoppers have turned to the newspaper to find the best deals at the local grocery store. But new technologies are taking a bite out of the printed coupons, and a Kirkland company by the...
Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math? Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations, integrals, multiplies and adds are the core of what predictive...
Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who helps companies deploy machine learning. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI World, the instructor of...
Eric Siegel, scholar, consultant and event organizer, explains how, where and why predictive analytics can be used to inform more proactive, empirically-based decision making. As part of his time at Cognizant Confluence 2011, Siegel brings a lot...
Eric Siegel answers these eight questions: 1. What is predictive analytics? 2. Why is predictive analytics important? 3: Isn’t prediction impossible? 4. Is predictive analytics a big data thing? 5. Did Nate Silver use predictive analytics to...
Predictive Analytics World, April 14-19, 2013 in San Francisco is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote speakers: Rayid Ghani Chief Data Scientist Obama for America Analytics and the...
Dean Abbott is President of Abbott Analytics in San Diego, California. Mr. Abbott is an internationally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert with over two decades experience applying advanced data mining algorithms, data preparation techniques, and...
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