When it comes to casino slot floor planning, bad decisions can mean significant losses in customer loyalty and potential revenue. With analytics, SaskGaming better understands its customers and has stronger predictors of long-term gaming trends – leading to better decisions for the future.
Eric Siegel, Ph.D. discusses who benefits from predicting your behavior (including lying and dying) using predictive anayltics. Read more in this article.
A better term for the “data scientist” may be “data artist,” says SAS’ Rachel Alt-Simmons. She explains how this role needs to embed a solution efficiently within a business process. And one way to do this is through the Lean methodology.
In the age of big data, organizations are moving from traditional analytics/reporting solutions that provide a snapshot of the past (hindsight) to solutions that provide an accurate picture of the present and a prediction of future trends (foresight). Enter predictive analytics. Read more about the approach in this article.
“To be fully effective, the data scientist should represent a pinnacle of knowledge engineering,” says SAS’ Peter Dorrington. Read this article for further explanation.
Leaders in predictive analytics, Billy Beane, Daryl Morey and Tom Davenport, discuss a new perspective for predictive analytics and give suggestions for getting broad acceptance and usage throughout the organization.
“Everybody deserves a safe workplace,” says Deloitte Consulting Director Dave Duden. He explains how advanced analytics can have a holistic effect on workers’ compensation claims analysis and workplace safety.
Discover is using an innovative approach based on predictive analytics to improve merchant retention rates. Find out more.
Amid all the talk of big data, no doubt you come across the newfangled job title “data scientist.” Various definitions, purposes and forecasts of this line of work blanket headlines daily. Consider a few more views on the emerging role.
Operations research specialists are making the case that their predictive and prescriptive skills are critical to enterprise-wide analytics efforts. Anne Robinson, the President-Elect of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), explains how.
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