— Bio —
The president of
Prediction Impact, Inc., author of the acclaimed book,
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, Executive Editor of the
Predictive Analytics Times, and the founder of
Predictive Analytics World and
Text Analytics World, Eric Siegel is an expert in predictive analytics and data mining and a former
computer science professor at
Columbia University, where he won
the engineering school's award for teaching, including graduate-level courses in machine learning and intelligent systems - the academic terms for predictive analytics. After Columbia, Dr. Siegel co-founded two software companies for customer profiling and data mining, and then started Prediction Impact in 2003, providing predictive analytics services and training to mid-tier through Fortune 100 companies.