Category Archives: Machine learning

What is Predictive Analytics?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Paul Kovaks

Predictive analytics is a field of business intelligence, statistics and machine learning that has emerged from academia over the last decade or two.  It’s become the state-of-the-art method for analysing business data in real-time or otherwise for predictability of commercial … Continue reading →

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What is Machine Learning?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Paul Kovaks

Machine Learning (ML) is a class of pattern finding methods that lies at the intersection of statistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, algorithm-wise, represents the state-of-the-art of predictive analytics. ML methods include Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Decision Trees (DT), Clustering algorithms and … Continue reading →

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Low-hanging Fruit of Predictive Analytics . . and Then the Rest

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Paul Kovaks

Most of the predictive power of predictive analytics comes after the all-important data clean-up and the application of a 1st-year uni stats method: Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). We’ll talk about what that is in another post, but for now, just … Continue reading →

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