Many of the factors you might think would be predictive of group performance were not.
When these systems reach their full potential, the models can become predictive of future problems or opportunities.
Still, Facebook knows well that the behavior of the youngest users is often predictive of where things are headed.
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The intermediate goal of MET is to discover what we are able to measure that is predictive of student success.
The Pew survey asked about attitudes toward other countries, and only attitudes toward the U.S. were predictive of parking violations in Manhattan.
But since 1960, we should point out that post convention bounces are - only been predictive of the outcome about a half the time.
Recent history has shown that polling in the summer before a Presidential election year is not all that predictive of how an incumbent will do.
And they have never proven predictive of future economic direction, either.
By the way, we managed to do this via a consumer engagement-based Digital Platform GPS that is predictive of consumer behavior in the marketplace.
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"My perception in the school-age range and pre-school-age range was that how the at-home parent is doing is most predictive of how the child is coping, " Davis said.
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He added that the team did find that the presence of lower frequency elements in a song was predictive of whether a species' abundance would be affected by noise.
Polls taken months before the first primaries are not predictive of who will win the nomination, but I feel very confident that our polling is accurately measuring current GOP voter preferences.
"An insurer could contend that a subscription to 'Hang Gliding Monthly' is predictive of highly dangerous behavior, but I'm not buying that theory: The consumer may be getting the magazine for the pictures, " says Thomas Considine, New Jersey's commissioner of banking and insurance.
Stock Trader's Almanac founder Yale Hirsch is credited with coming up with the "first five days" indicator, which essentially says that the direction of the first five days of January is predictive of January, which can have bullish implications for the rest of the year.
What might is the fact that because loyalty metrics are predictive of what consumers are going to do or purchase 12 to 18 months down the road, with the right loyalty metrics in place Blackberry could have known how consumers were going to vote with their hearts and pocketbooks back in June.
Leave aside crowdsourcing and think of the predictive power of crowd opinion.
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Could these be combined to bring us closer to the kind of natural, predictive experience of Apple's nearly decade-old Knowledge Navigator video than its 22 year-old Macintosh?
While Actos represents another step in the evolution of predictive coding, the protocol explained in the Order does not provide enough transparency to ensure the overall integrity of the predictive coding process.
Two other studies published in the same issue of the New England Journal throw further cold water on the predictive powers of genetic testing.
More specifically, I evaluate the accuracy and predictive power of prospective and retrospective clinical research.
The goal, Garcha explained, is to better understand how to make predictive models of disease.
It may be that the predictive power of these technical patterns comes from the behaviour of individual investors.
And if you want to help drive sales, loyalty and engagement metrics provide predictive measures of what customers really want.
That model was based on the predictive power of spin and narrative.
People are cynical about ROI, but after years of validated research we can confidently say that loyalty-based engagement metrics are always a leading-indicator, predictive measure of consumer behavior.
And in terms of predictive analysis, a pie chart of where someone goes most frequently, or who they tweet to, is simple data crunching that a human analyst could do, albeit with more time and effort.
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Insurance and reinsurance firm will have new tools for predictive modeling of events like tropical storms in January when Wall Street Network (WSN) launches a cloud-based solution it is developing with Esri, the mapping company.
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Most of the symptoms had a relatively low "predictive value" of less than 1%, meaning fewer than one in 100 patients with the complaint actually go on to receive a cancer diagnosis.
With only small apologies to those who employ the science and art of predictive analytics, the more impersonal the methodology you use to make use of the individual (or even aggregate) data, the more intense the personal violation will feel.
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