Super Crunchers: a fresh view to predictive analytics
Super Crunchers? What are they? Super Crunchers is a term used by Ian Ayres to refer to organizations that analyze massive datasets at lightning speed to gain greater insights into human behavior. In other words, Super Crunchers are organizations that are using predictive analytics to gain insights from data.
If you want to have a fresh view on how predictive analytics can help you, I recommend you to have a look at the webcast: Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. In this webcast, Ian Ayres, the author of Super Crunchers, tells the secrets of the “Super Crunchers”
From the description of the webcast:
In this brave new world of equation versus expertise, Ayres shows us the benefits and risks, who loses and who wins, and how super crunching can be used to help, not manipulate us. Gone are the days of solely relying on intuition to make decisions. No businessperson, consumer, or student who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading Super Crunchers.