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What’s Next – Predictive Scores for Healthcare?
New gene sequencing technologies are now making it feasible to read an individual’s DNA for as little as $1,000 USD. If there is predictive value in reading a person’s gene sequence, what are implications of this advancement? And will healthcare data privacy laws be enough to protect employees from discrimination? [read more]
Black Box Analytics
Organizations are now aware of the significant contribution that predictive analytics brings to the bottom line. Solutions, once viewed with skepticism and doubts, are now embraced by many organizations. Yet, from a practitioner’s perspective, certain solutions are easier to understand than others.The challenge for the practitioner is... [read more]
Take the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey
"Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud with the folks here at SmartData Collective. Both Predictive Analytics and Cloud are hot topics and the intersection has tremendous potential....To find out what you think we have opened a survey and you can take it right now here on SmartData Collective..." [read more]
How Predictive Analytics Can Save Zebras
"Marwell Wildlife, an international conservation charity and zoo in the U.K., is using predictive analytics technology, to help in its 15-year effort to save the Grevy’s zebra, an endangered species, whose population in the wild is estimated to be less than 2,500," [read more]
Predictive Analytics in the Cloud Research on SmartData Collective
"SmartData Collective and Decision Management Solutions are partnering to bring some exciting new research to the SmartData Collective community. A week ago we announced a multi-stage, multi-client project to study Predictive Analytics in the Cloud." [read more]
Building an Analytical Portal to Support Analytical Culture
The first step in adopting predictive analytics is to start building an analytical culture. In an analytical culture, people Know the Numbers, Examine the Numbers, Use the Numbers. [read more]
Big Data: What can an energy company teach us about data science?
Is data science a new discipline to help us with big data ? I don't agree, as field has existed since WWII, and the industry is innovating so that we are all data scientists [read more]
Why Predictive Analytics is Important and More
SaaS and Social Media provided the final requirement, data creation. Both of these technologies have made is common and inexpensive for people to quickly and easily collect and publish information about their lives and jobs. [read more]
Top 10 Ways to Apply Predictive Analytics in the Insurance Industry -- and Your Industry?
Actuaries are experts at using mathematics to forecast risk at a human biological level. CAN is the expert at using predictive mathematics to forecast human behavior in the domain of marketing, sales, and operations. CAN uses predictive analytics, behavior, and data science to develop creative solutions for the ever-changing business... [read more]
Predictive Analytics World New York City Conference Announces Speaker Line-Up
Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the October 17-21, 2011 conference in New York City, New York [read more]
Less Wrong: Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Budgeting
Last week Grant and Tadd (co-owners at CAN) presented their insight on the concept of being “Less Wrong” on day two of the Infotec Conference and left the audience intrigued with the possibilities of the use of predictive analytics in their line of work. CAN has used the “Less Wrong” approach in predictive analytics to predict when roofs... [read more]
Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a band plays for his entrance. So begins the ritual of bullfighting. Highly structured and stylized, bullfighting demands a tremendous commitment in study, practice and personal risk. Who is the matador trying to impress? Certainly not the bull. Your computer beeps, alerting you that a meeting is about to begin. You stand and walk toward the conference room, wearing one of your nicer shirts and a decent pair of shoes, carrying a laptop with one arm, coffee with the other. So begins the ritual of the business presentation. Who are you trying to impress? [read more]
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them with information that gives the business the best shot at the biggest profits. Yet C-level executives frequently ignore or undervalue the analytics available to them. Why does upper management ignore information that would surely enable them to achieve better and more consistent returns on investment? The information isn’t presented in the right way. [read more]
Top 10 analytics mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners. Lack Data is problem zero - obviously you need data to do data mining and analytics. Without data that is relevant to the problem you cannot use analytics to solve it. In particular it can be hard when there are too few cases to use... [read more]
Right Time Business Optimization
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization, Mike says, is about continuously knowing what is the best action to take and when to take it in every business process to dynamically keep a business running optimally... [read more]
The three legged stool - business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim Harris wrote called The Business versus IT—Tear down this wall! and the response Gary Cokins made in That Wall Dividing IT and Users. Both Jim and Gary make the point that collaboration between business and IT organizations and people is... [read more]
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