Predictive Analytics

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
—Attributed to A. A. Milne, Bil Keane, and Oogway, the wise turtle in Kung Fu Panda

The Predictive Analytics Times—the premier resource: industry news, technical articles, videos, events, and community: www.predictiveanalyticstimes.com

Predictive Analytics Applied—the author's online training workshop, which, unlike this book, is a how-to. Access immediately, on-demand at any time: www.businessprediction.com

Predictive Analytics World—the leading cross-vendor conference series in North America and Europe, which includes advanced training workshop days and the industry-specific events PAW Business, PAW Government, PAW Healthcare, PAW Financial, PAW Workforce, and PAW Manufacturing: www.pawcon.com

This book's website—videos, articles, and more resources: www.thepredictionbook.com

Where Can I Learn More After this Book, Such as a How-To for Hands-On Practice?

I also often refer in my own writing to a third type of analytics—“prescriptive”—that tells its users what to do through controlled experiments or optimization. Those quantitative methods are much less popular, however, than predictive analytics.

Like other powerful technologies or disruptive human innovations, predictive analytics is essentially amoral and can be used for good or evil. To avoid the evil applications, however, it is certainly important to understand what is possible with predictive analytics, and you will certainly learn that if you keep reading.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015031895 (print) | LCCN 2015039877 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781119145677 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119145684 (pdf) |
ISBN 9781119153658 (epub)

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