By: Richard Boire, Senior Vice President, Environics Analytics
Artificial Intelligence(AI) continues to be the next great topic of debate. In fact, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google and Facebook announced on Thursday,Sept.29 the formation of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. Within the predictive analytics discipline, though, we tend to use the term “machine learning” as our reference point for artificial
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World
Originally published by Big Think
The future is the ultimate unknown. It’s everything that hasn’t happened yet. Prediction as a capability is booming. It reinvents industries and runs the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and...
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World
Originally published by Scientific American
Data is the world’s most potent, flourishing unnatural resource. Accumulated in large part as the by-product of routine tasks, it is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations churn away. Surprise! This heap of...
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World
Originally published in Analytics Magazine
This article is excerpted from Eric Siegel’s foreword to the recently released book, Mining Your Own Business: A Primer for Executives on Understanding and Employing Data Mining and Predictive Analytics, by Jeff Deal and Gerhard Pilcher....
In anticipation of his upcoming conference keynote presentation, 21st Century Data-Driven Environmental Protection at Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016, we asked Robin Thottungal, Chief Data Scientist/Director of Analytics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World
Originally published in Scientific American and Salon
In this article, I provide evidence that Hillary for America is employing uplift modeling for per-voter persuasion—which Trump’s campaign may not be taking advantage of—and I pose questions about the 2016 presidential race to a leading...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference co-presentation, Words that Matter: Application of Text Analytics at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, at Predictive Analytics World for Government, October 17-20, 2016, we asked Miguel Castillo, Assistant Inspector General...
In anticipation of his upcoming keynote co-presentation, Picking the Right Modeling Technique for the Problem, at Predictive Analytics World London, October 12-13, 2016, we asked Michael Berry, Analytics Director at TripAdvisor Hotel Solutions, a few questions about...
By: Richard Boire, Senior Vice President, Environics Analytics
Continuing on our discussion from last month on toolkits for practitioners, you will note that I purposely do not make reference to specific brand names and companies. By googling data science software, the user can easily obtain...
By: Ryan McGibony, Data Scientist, Elder Research
Research shows that people tend to be overly risk averse when weighing the potential success or failure of a decision. This tendency is compounded when we consider the vast number of decisions being made across an organization....
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