Business Applications
This company uses predictive analytics to suggest songs you might like.
Spotify
This retailer famously predicted a teen’s pregnancy using purchasing data.
Target
This Python library is used for data manipulation and analysis.
Pandas
This technique groups similar data points (e.g., customer segments).
Clustering
This free tool by Google tracks website traffic and user behavior for digital marketing insights.
Google Analytics
This retailer uses predictive inventory systems to avoid stockouts during holidays."
Walmart
This hurricane prediction model saved thousands of lives during Katrina.
NOAA's Hurricane Forecasting Model
This Python library is used for machine learning workflows.
Scikit-learn
This algorithm predicts a continuous outcome (e.g., sales).
Linear Regression
This tool creates interactive dashboards for business analytics.
Tableau
This streaming giant uses predictive analytics to greenlight original content.
This 2016 event exposed flaws in predictive polling models.
U.S. Presidential Election (Trump vs. Clinton)
This tool by Microsoft is used for business intelligence reporting.
Power BI
This metric evaluates classification model performance.
Confusion Matrix
This Google framework builds and deploys machine learning models.
TensorFlow
This social media platform uses predictive analytics to recommend job postings.
This failed Google project used search data to predict flu outbreaks.
Google Flu Trends
This SQL-based language is used for querying databases.
SQL (Structured Query Language)
This machine learning task involves predicting categories, like ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Classification
This open-source framework processes big data across clusters.
Apache Hadoop
This ride-sharing app uses surge pricing algorithms to predict demand spikes.
Uber
This AI predicted COVID-19 variants’ evolution faster than labs.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold/Epidemiology models
This language is used for statistical computing and graphics.
R
This algorithm classifies data points based on the majority label of their closest neighbors.
K-Nearest Neighbours
This library in Python is used to create dimensional arrays and matrices with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.
NumPy