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Predictive Analytics in Business | ML vs. System Modeling

Conferences Modeling Predictive Analytics Europe 2018 Predictive Analyticsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 7, 2020

Predictive analytics works in the real world without us understanding exactly how. We turn on our cell phones and expect them to work without understanding the fundamentals. We push the gas pedal and expect the car to go. Even something as simple as a pencil may... Read more

Why Datafication is Key for the Organisation of Tomorrow

Modeling Predictive Analytics data organization data-driven businessposted by Mark van Rijmenam November 19, 2019

Imagine, it is Friday afternoon, and after a long week at work, you and your colleagues decide to go to the bar to unwind and refresh with a nice cool glass of beer. You go to your favourite pub and upon reaching the bar order a... Read more

The New Life of the Travel Industry with Artificial Intelligence

Business + Management Guest contributor Predictive Analytics Transportationposted by Ralabs July 16, 2019

The new online opportunities for travelers has a negative influence on touristic companies. A large number of their potential clients prefer to arrange their vacations on the internet instead of going to travel agencies. But there are a lot of ways new technologies, like AI, can... Read more

RAPIDS cuGraph

Modeling Predictive Analytics graph analytics Open Source rapidsposted by RAPIDS July 8, 2019

The Data Scientist has a collection of techniques within their proverbial toolbox. Data engineering, statistical analysis, and machine learning are among the most commonly known. However, there are numerous cases where the focus of the analysis is on the relationship between data elements. In those cases,... Read more

Crisis Intervention and Saving Lives with NLP & Predictive Analytics

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Predictive Analytics NLP Predictive Analyticsposted by Tom O'Neill March 28, 2019

Editor’s note: Tom is a speaker for ODSC East 2019 this April 30-May 3! Be sure to attend his talk, “Crisis Intervention and Saving Lives with Natural Language Processing & Predictive Analytics.” The field of predictive modeling is still young, but one of the most effective... Read more

Reading Tea Leaves: Principles of Predictive Analytics and the Path to Time-Series Predictions

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Featured Post Modeling Predictive Analytics Predictive Modeling Time Seriesposted by Scott Haines January 31, 2019

Scott is presenting at ODSC East 2019 this May in Boston! Check out his workshop “Real-ish Time Predictive Analytics with Spark Structured Streaming.” With the advent of so many wonderful open-source tools and frameworks for machine learning & deep learning, it can sometimes be difficult to... Read more

What are Recommender Systems and Why Should I Care?

Modeling Predictive Analyticsposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC July 27, 2018

Introduction to Recommender Systems Every time you want to acquire a new product or service from a physical store or business, you may go there and ask to speak to a salesperson. You will tell them what exactly it is you want from said product, such... Read more

How Well Did Data Scientists Predict the 2018 World Cup? (Hint: Not Very)

Data Wrangling Modeling Predictive Analytics Research Statistics popular culture world cupposted by Alex Amari July 26, 2018

This year’s World Cup in Russia was the most watched sporting event in history. GlobalWebIndex reports that up to 3.4 billion people – around half of the world’s population – watched some part of the tournament. As with past World Cups, a global prediction market emerged... Read more

A Different Use of Time Series to Identify Seasonal Customers

Modeling Predictive Analytics Researchposted by Kristen Kehrer June 18, 2018

I had previously written about creatively leveraging your data using segmentation to learn about a customer base. The article is here. In the article I mentioned utilizing any data that might be relevant. Trying to identify customers with seasonal usage patterns was one of the variables that I mentioned... Read more

Introduction to Machine Learning for Non-Developers

Modeling Predictive Analyticsposted by Pablo Casas June 7, 2018

About Machine Learning We all know that machine learning is about handling data, but it also can be seen as: The art of finding order in data by browsing its inner information. Some background on predictive models There are several types of predictive models. These models... Read more