January 2016
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
8h 52m
English
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Appendix CPrediction People—Cast of “Characters”
- Founder of the Predictive Analytics World conference series.
- Executive editor of The Predictive Analytics Times.
- Instructor of the online, on-demand training workshop Predictive Analytics Applied (www.businessprediction.com).
- Former computer science professor at Columbia University.
- For more information, see About the Author.
Invested his entire life savings into his own predictive stock market trading system (see Chapter 1).
- CEO and founder, Elder Research, Inc.
- Founding conference chair of Predictive Analytics World for Government, and a frequent keynote speaker at other Predictive Analytics World events.
- Coauthor, Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications.
- Adjunct professor at the University of Virginia.
Led a staff-retention project that earmarks each of Hewlett-Packard's almost 350,000 worldwide employees according to “Flight Risk,” the expected chance they will quit their jobs (see Chapter 2).
- Analytics practitioners at Hewlett-Packard.
- Backgrounds in statistics and economics.
Led a marketing project at Target that predicts customer pregnancy (see Chapter 2).
- Analytics manager at Target.
- Previously a lead consumer analyst at Hallmark Cards.
- Master's degrees in statistics and economics.
- View his original newsbreaking presentation on pregnancy prediction: www.pawcon.com/Target.
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