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Re:Predictive Analytics 101 – Part 1 by Tangokat on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:50AM (#13071650)
From the perspective of a non-developer I thought this was pretty good. I could have done with a bit more information and references, and less arguments with "past-me" though.

HN has an almost hostile reaction to anyone who says using machine learning in practice is easy. Maybe it is just a question of different definitions.

Of course developing new algorithms and coding everything from scratch is difficult but using machine learning for predictive analytics does not have to be that hard and can create a massive amount of business value.

Re:Predictive Analytics 101 – Part 1 by data36 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:04AM (#13071791)
I agree. The development part is difficult and very time consuming. Thank you for the feedback.
Re:Predictive Analytics 101 – Part 1 by xxjaba on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:35AM (#13072110)
Thank you for sharing. I don't have any experience with predictive analytics. I found this article approachable and it sparked my interest in the subject.
Re:Predictive Analytics 101 – Part 1 by data36 on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:01AM (#13089658)
Thanks for the feedback! Very happy you liked it!
Re:Predictive Analytics 101 – Part 1 by thanatropism on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:56AM (#13070286)
Eh.

I wish there were more academics from nonparametric statistics trying to formally relate cross-validation to things like the jackknife and exact permutation tests.

Or whatever those crazy kids do these days.