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Solving the Data Daze – Analytics at the Speed of Business Questions

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Beyond the early days of data collection, where data was acquired primarily to measure what had happened (descriptive) or why something is happening (diagnostic), data collection now drives predictive models (forecasting the future) and prescriptive models (optimizing for “a better future”).

Analytics 167
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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Predictive analytics applies techniques such as statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning to the output of descriptive and diagnostic analytics to make predictions about future outcomes. It is often used to understand how customers feel about a brand, product, or service.

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The quest for high-quality data

O'Reilly on Data

There has been a significant increase in our ability to build complex AI models for predictions, classifications, and various analytics tasks, and there’s an abundance of (fairly easy-to-use) tools that allow data scientists and analysts to provision complex models within days.

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

Domino Data Lab

The interest in interpretation of machine learning has been rapidly accelerating in the last decade. This can be attributed to the popularity that machine learning algorithms, and more specifically deep learning, has been gaining in various domains. Methods for explaining Deep Learning. See Wei et al.

Modeling 139
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AI in commerce: Essential use cases for B2B and B2C

IBM Big Data Hub

Poorly run implementations of traditional or generative AI technology in commerce—such as deploying deep learning models trained on inadequate or inappropriate data—lead to bad experiences that alienate both consumers and businesses.

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Why you should care about debugging machine learning models

O'Reilly on Data

More structured approaches to sensitivity analysis include: Adversarial example searches : this entails systematically searching for rows of data that evoke strange or striking responses from an ML model. Figure 1 illustrates an example adversarial search for an example credit default ML model. Residual analysis.

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The curse of Dimensionality

Domino Data Lab

The Curse of Dimensionality , or Large P, Small N, ((P >> N)) , problem applies to the latter case of lots of variables measured on a relatively few number of samples. The accuracy of any predictive model approaches 100%. Property 4: The accuracy of any predictive model approaches 100%.