During the past month, I was able to attend two premier conferences dedicated to predictive analytics; these were the The Predictive Analytics Summit in San Diego, and Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco. In categories like this, it’s next to impossible to follow the notion of a mutually exclusive and exhaustive set. In spite of this classification issue, I will do my best to provide a bird’s eye view of the sector. I’ve broken it down into three types of predictive analytics and the three types of companies pursuing the predictive analytics market. Continue reading »