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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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Leveraging Data Analytics in the Fight Against Prescription Opioid Abuse

Cloudera

Since the 1990s, opioid abuse in the US skyrocketed to the point that in 2017 the Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. With the Controlled Substance Analytics platform online, KMC has eliminated manual data collection and streamlined data processing.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

higher [in 2022] than in 2017.” The inherent capabilities of AI–to process vast amounts of data and use learned intelligence to make decisions with extraordinary speed–enable opportunities uncovered through digital listening. Information governance enables enterprises to achieve strategic goals, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.

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Top 7 Data Governance Blog Posts of 2018

erwin

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. The Top 6 Benefits of Data Governance.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

First, the system may not be understood, and even if it was understood it may be extremely difficult to measure the relationships that are assumed to govern its behavior. They can arise from data collection errors or other unlikely-to-repeat causes such as an outage somewhere on the Internet.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV. 2018-06-21).

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. Chawla et al. link] Fisher, R.