Professor Ed Malthouse talks about his approach to teaching this vital skill as he takes over as the new instructor of the MSiA program’s introductory class. The best way to understand the importance ...

"If the information from predictive analytics could be discouraging, do we have a duty to withhold it? Is there an ethical basis for a sort of statistical placebo?" That question closed a recent post ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

The world is digitizing with increasing speed, and global interconnectivity is rising right along with it, generating abundant data. This data can facilitate more intelligent business decisions and ...

Predictive analytics enables you to develop mathematical models to help you better understand the variables driving success. Predictive analytics relies on formulas that compare past successes and ...

The transformer-based model is being developed to help organizations—most notably in the finance industry—dig deeper into ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

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Correlation can look convincing in dashboards. Without causal analysis, organizations risk optimizing for the wrong signals.

Predictive analytics can detect and quantify emotional reactions in the human voice which can be used to predict customer churn, forecast sales and more. Predictive analytics is a form of data ...