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Founder, Predictive Analytics World
The main thing that’s going to happen with predictive analytics is that it’s just going to become more pervasive. It’s going to be more ingrained. It’s going to be used more and more. We’re already being predicted all the time. It’s influencing our experience – it’s hard to know how much. I ...
I’ve been asked periodically for a couple of decades whether I think artificial intelligence is possible. And I taught the artificial intelligence course at Columbia University. I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of intelligence. It’s a subjective word. I’ve always been very skeptical ...
Good morning. It's January 2, 2020, the first workday of the year. As you drive to the office, the only thing predictive analytics doesn't do for you is steer the car (yet that's coming soon as well). 1. Anti-theft. As you enter your car, a predictive model establishes your identity based on ...
Last October, a colleague and I speculated on how a special, powerful form of predictive analytics would revolutionize presidential campaigning -- and, if successful, how it might be poorly received by the public thereafter. In our work, he and I focus more on financial, marketing, and online ...