This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...

“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...

The HVAC industry’s workforce shortage doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon and, on average, there are about 42,500 HVAC job openings each year. Refrigerant availability is getting better, ...

There is a vast array of predictive analytics tools, but not all are created equal. Software differs widely in terms of capability and usability — not all solutions can address all types of advanced ...

TL;DR: Predictive analytics influences day-to-day decisions once forecasts change behavior rather than sit inside ...