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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

The good news is that this new data can help lower your insurance rate. Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Traditional data, like demographics, continues to be a factor in risk assessment. Demographics. This includes: Age. Occupation.

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Managing risk in machine learning

O'Reilly on Data

Considerations for a world where ML models are becoming mission critical. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in New York last September. As the data community begins to deploy more machine learning (ML) models, I wanted to review some important considerations.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

These measures are commonly referred to as guardrail metrics , and they ensure that the product analytics aren’t giving decision-makers the wrong signal about what’s actually important to the business. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ( Goodhart’s Law ). Any metric can and will be abused.

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Data protection strategy: Key components and best practices

IBM Big Data Hub

Virtually every organization recognizes the power of data to enhance customer and employee experiences and drive better business decisions. Yet, as data becomes more valuable, it’s also becoming harder to protect. What is a data protection strategy?

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. Even if the data is stolen in a cyberattack , hackers can’t use it. These access controls reduce the chances that the data is used for unauthorized or illegal purposes.

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Incorporating Data Analytics in Fast Food Legal Cases

Smart Data Collective

The Power of Data Analytics: An Overview Data analytics, in its simplest form, is the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data to unearth useful information, draw conclusions, and support decision-making. This involves data collection , data cleaning, data analysis, and data interpretation.

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Our Favorite Questions

O'Reilly on Data

Taking the time to work this out is like building a mathematical model: if you understand what a company truly does, you don’t just get a better understanding of the present, but you can also predict the future. Since I work in the AI space, people sometimes have a preconceived notion that I’ll only talk about data and models.