Predictive Analytics

There are many supervised algorithms that can be used to train a classifier. The problem is that it is hard to say which one will be the best fit for your data — there is no golden algorithm that always comes out best. To train a good predictive model you need to…

It seems that FICO has done rather well in Forrester’s evaluation of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions, and deservedly so in my opinion. While there are many new kids on the block in this domain, FICO actually has the tools, methods and experience to make the whole thing work…

A contribution from Mel Harding VP of Product Marketing at Occulus Inc. “Beware yon Statistician for he has a lean and hungry look.” Big Data and Big Data Analysis are terms we hear a lot these days, and as a matter of fact it’s almost impossible to avoid them. Just…

The vast majority of people in business use Excel, and so it makes sense to integrate Excel with data science resources so that business analysts and data science teams can collaborate. Continuum Analytics has recently released Anaconda Fusion to do just this. The press release is below: Continuum Analytics, the…

Predictive analytics and big data are making their way into auto sales. automotiveMastermind uses predictive analytics and marketing automation technology to help dealers and manufacturers target the right customers with the right product. This has been adopted by Toyota and brands such as Audi, BMW, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and others. The…

Summary Neural Designer is a software tool for advanced analytics, and includes tools for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics. The objective is to get actionable insights resulting in smarter decisions and better business outcomes. The software is based on neural networks, which are considered one of the most powerful technique…

Enova Decisions Review Summary Enova Decisions provides automated real-time decisioning services to businesses operating primarily in loans and banking. The parent company has gained over a decade of experience automating many of the decisions relevant to these markets, and has effectively productized its skills and experience in a set of…

Updated 21 March 2016 Machine Learning as a Service Platforms 2016 Machine learning is a nebulous term used to address capabilities such as face recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, predictive analytics and specific techniques such as deep learning (deep neural networks). All the services listed below provide APIs so…

PurePredictive Review. PurePredictive makes some pretty big claims about its cloud based analytics platform, and interest from the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle and others would imply that the claims are worth taking seriously. The platform uses AI to automate the machine learning process, allowing predictive models to be…