So have many of the predictive analytics firms that are helping us interpret voting patterns.
According to Petersen, Sense Networks applies big science to mobile location data for predictive analytics in advertising.
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Predictive analytics can gather weather and tidal data to help crews ready themselves for the next starting gun.
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Predictive analytics that run on top of social media will rule the day.
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Predictive analytics is not easy, especially for actions that are not written down.
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They need to make the data actionable and leverage spatial or predictive analytics to add real intelligence into the analytics process.
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Could predictive analytics be the next big advantage for major sports organizations?
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We have gotten much more sophisticated in our hiring and we are working on some really cool stuff with predictive analytics for hiring top performers.
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Dave Rich has an interesting theory explaining the rapidly-growing interest and investment in big data and specifically, in predictive analytics, over the last few years.
Not so fast, says Andrew Cherwenka, CEO of Authintic, a technology company that helps marketers like The North Face increase sales using predictive analytics.
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Big data, predictive analytics, personalization and transactional media are the future.
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Chicago plans to harness computers to create a data-driven "predictive analytics platform" to track trends and allow city leaders to identify problems before they are obvious.
Earlier this month my fellow Forbes colleague Bruce Rogers wrote a great piece on a mobile audience predictive analytics company called Sense Networks.
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We were treated this week to another excellent predictive analytics story with some privacy implications, but this time it was about how politicians learn your secrets.
Predictive analytics will allow auto insurance companies to accurately determine a reasonable premium to cover each automobile and driver, which helps their bottom line, as well as ours.
Recent advances in analytic technology and data visualization has neutralized the advantage held by statisticians, data mining experts and actuarials with advanced degrees in predictive analytics and operations research.
But on February 1st, he started a new job as CEO of Revolution Analytics, the company supporting, spreading, and enhancing R, the open-source statistics and predictive analytics programming language.
Then farmers can correlate that information with the weather, their fertilizing patterns, seed varieties and they can come up with some predictive analytics on how to improve crop yields.
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Speed is absolutely crucial for predictive analytics to succeed.
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Advanced analytic functionality includes predictive analytics and campaign optimization.
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In the unstructured data world, especially text, the big trend is predictive coding or predictive analytics that identify high-risk communications, flag them for followup and use machine learning to train a data set.
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For instance, IBM believes its five-year-old U.S. Open SlamTracker, which analyzed all Grand Slam tournaments this summer, is the kind of metaphor that can help business managers understand why predictive analytics apply to them.
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The technology coming next will use predictive analytics to identify consumer intent, to track down real leads for potential customers that are in the midst of, or about to be making, a purchasing decision.
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Without such data, predictive analytics become very difficult.
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The county is also using SPSS predictive analytics software, Cognos business intelligence software, i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement solution, a private cloud system on zLinux hosted on an IBM System z mainframe and IBM PureFlex System.
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"Participating in this Institute allows us to utilize advances in predictive analytics to optimize the operation of our key assets and improve the reliability of our electric grid, " said Vince Dow, Vice President Distribution Operations, DTE Energy.
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In police work, the county already has a sophisticated crime data warehouse it developed with IBM, said Petisco, and the IT group is building an analytical model and working on predictive analytics both for crime and for transportation.
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Given the near real-time nature of many of these interactions, companies need to embrace predictive analytics so they know not only whom to target but also where and when so that they can will drive sales and loyalty.
"The use of text-mining algorithms was critical in this endeavor and helped secure a complete picture that would not have been available using traditional market research, " says Michael Cavaretta, Ford's technical leader for predictive analytics and data mining.
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