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Burtch Works study on ‘Salaries of Predictive Analytics Professionals’

    Burtch Works study on ‘Salaries of Predictive Analytics Professionals’

According to the recently released Burtch Works study on “Salaries of Predictive Analytics Professionals 2017,” senior-level executives saw the largest increase in salaries from 2016 to 2017, and industry diversification of employment has diluted the concentration of such professionals from financial services and marketing/advertising to consulting and technology.

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Verizon Fellow to lead predictive analytics workshop

    Verizon Fellow to lead predictive analytics workshop

James Drew, adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Fellow at the Verizon Corporation for more than 30 years (where he was an internal consultant in statistics and data mining), will lead a “Foundations of Modern Predictive Analytics” workshop on Oct. 2-3 in Arlington, Va.

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Lessons learned from a decade of B2B eCommerce

    Lessons learned from a decade of B2B eCommerce

For mid-size manufacturers and distributors, and many other B2B (business-to-business) organizations for that matter, eCommerce has become a major challenge for the operation. Despite the early promise of added sales and increased efficiencies, these companies are often experiencing what can only be described as a failure to meet the initial goals and objectives of the eCommerce system itself.

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Corporate Profile: Praxair – Making our planet more productive

    Corporate Profile: Praxair – Making our planet more productive

For more than 100 years, Praxair has taken something as fundamental as air and turned it into ways to make food taste better, processes operate cleaner and breathing easier – in short, to make all our lives better by fulfilling our mission of making our planet more productive. As a Fortune 300 company, we develop products and technology that impact more than 20 different industries. You see our work every day, often without realizing it. We provide oxygen for respiratory therapy, hydrogen to help purify crude oil into gasoline, carbon dioxide to add the fizz in our beverages and argon to enhance the robotic welding systems that build new automobiles.

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Frontline shipping V. 2017 of Solvers for Excel and Analytic Solver.com

Frontline Systems is shipping a new product line release for desktop and cloud, Version 2017 of its Solvers for Excel and AnalyticSolver.com, its SaaS equivalent. The new release unifies and simplifies Frontline’s products, makes learning predictive and prescriptive analytics accessible to everyone at very low cost, is easier to upgrade for larger models or data sets, and is easier to use across multiple desktop machines and the cloud.

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ABM and predictive lead scoring – a primer for success

    ABM and predictive lead scoring – a primer for success

Account-based marketing (ABM) – and the related technology of predictive lead scoring – is dramatically changing the face of sales and marketing. The difference is like spearfishing when all you’ve known before is dragging a net. It’s much more precise and uses analytical processes to ensure that your efforts are focused on the results your organization needs and your leads are more efficiently converted to sales. For enterprise sales, ABM is critical because B2B sales are much more tightly focused than B2C sales.

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Disarming ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’

    Disarming ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’

Cathy O’Neil, an industry insider and experienced expert, thoroughly covers the sociological downside of data science in her New York Times bestseller and first-of-its kind book, “Weapons of Math Destruction.” In the world of big data, there’s a lot of music to be faced. With all its upside, data science’s deployment risks being prejudicial, predatory, exploitative, buggy, blindly trusted and secretive. And it has the potential to magnify the consumer’s personal economic struggle rather than remedy it.

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Predictive talent acquisition strategy

    Predictive talent acquisition strategy

Over the past 30+ years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if) a predictive talent acquisition strategy can include the use of pre-hire assessments? As costs of failed new hires continue to rise, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for any kind of pre-hire information to increase the probability of making a great hire.

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Inside story: Weapons of mass instruction

Cathy O’Neil’s provocative book, “Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy,” created quite a stir in the analytics community when it was released last fall.

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Salary survey: predictive analytics professionals

    Salary survey: predictive analytics professionals

The gender pay gap among predictive analytics professionals is practically nonexistent, and the percentage of U.S. citizens in the profession at the junior level is increasing while the percentage of foreign-born professionals at the same level is decreasing as more U.S. students are entering the market. Those are two of the more notable trends in a new Burtch Works salary survey of predictive analytics professionals (PAPs).

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Electoral College put to the math test


With the campaign two months behind us and the inauguration of Donald Trump two days away, isn’t it time to put the 2016 U.S. presidential election to bed and focus on issues that have yet to be decided? Of course not.

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Eyes on the road: How automated analytics, not dashboards, help you detect significant business incidents



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Accenture security report identifies top cyber threats

With recent large-scale cyberattacks signaling a growing front in destructive threats and business impact, a new midyear report from iDefense, part of Accenture Security, reveals how threat actors are continuing to evolve their ability to avoid detection. Based on in-depth analysis, the report anticipates a growth in the number of threat actors who are rapidly expanding their capabilities due to factors such as the proliferation of affordable, customizable and accessible tools and exploits. Read more →

Job searchers: It’s not just who you know, but how well you know them

While online networking sites enable individuals to increase their professional connections, to what extent do these ties actually lead to job opportunities? A new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that, despite the ability to significantly increase the number of professional connections and identify more job leads with limited effort on these sites, unless the connection is a strong one, they typically will not lead to job offers.  Read more →

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