Intro to Predictive Analytics

Summary

Using historical data to estimate future outcomes — a step beyond describing what already happened, and the boundary where analyst work starts to overlap with data science.

How to Learn This

1Read a beginner-friendly overview of what predictive analytics can (and can't) do.
2Identify a prediction problem in a domain you're interested in.
3Learn to be skeptical of predictions presented without an accuracy or error estimate.

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