What Skills Do Predictive Modelers Need?
Speaker(s):
Dean Abbott
Duration: 60 minutes
Track: Analyze & Interpret
Data science and predictive analytics is one of the hottest technology fields today. Dozens of masters and certificate programs have sprung up in the past 5 years to address the needs in the marketplace for analysts with predictive modeling expertise. What’s most important: understanding the algorithms? Ability to program in SQL or R? Or is experience more important than the technology? This session describes the interplay between the science and art of predictive analytics in the context of hiring talent for predictive modeling.