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What is Model Risk and Why Does it Matter?

DataRobot Blog

This provides a great amount of benefit, but it also exposes institutions to greater risk and consequent exposure to operational losses. The stakes in managing model risk are at an all-time high, but luckily automated machine learning provides an effective way to reduce these risks.

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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

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. Teens and young adults are less experienced drivers and, therefore, at risk for more car accidents. Demographics. This includes: Age.

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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are six revealing statistics that show how far the IT industry still has to go before it can truly become a level playing field. More than one in three Black participants in the 2017 survey said they left a job or company due to unfairness within the past year.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. Similarly, in 2018 the volume of breaches dropped to 1.257 billion (from 1.632 billion in 2017), but the records exposed dramatically increased to 471.23 million in 2017).

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Cloudera and NVIDIA Help IRS Fight Fraud, Safeguard Taxpayers

Cloudera

By more effectively leveraging its petabytes of current and historical data, the IRS is working to stave off costly fraud and waste, more efficiently deliver on fundamental missions, and better protect taxpayers, including from risks such as identity theft.

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How Financial Institutions Are Becoming Champions Of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Fraud remains a major risk for banks, and is only set to increase as people become more open with their data. According to Financial Regulation News, banks lost $2.2bn to fraud throughout 2016, as revealed by the most recently collated statistics. Minimizing fraudulent behavior.

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An Overview of Revenue Analytics for Event Industry

BizAcuity

This is resulting in the largest event management companies across this sector spending more than $43 billion on revenue analytics – which is a multi-dimensional and evolving field harnessing statistics, Artificial Intelligence and other tools to identify meaningful patterns in large data sets.