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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

With the technology available today, there’s even more data to draw from. The good news is that this new data can help lower your insurance rate. Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Demographics. This includes: Age. Safety Features.

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Leveraging Data Analytics in the Fight Against Prescription Opioid Abuse

Cloudera

Since the 1990s, opioid abuse in the US skyrocketed to the point that in 2017 the Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. With the Controlled Substance Analytics platform online, KMC has eliminated manual data collection and streamlined data processing.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

higher [in 2022] than in 2017.” The inherent capabilities of AI–to process vast amounts of data and use learned intelligence to make decisions with extraordinary speed–enable opportunities uncovered through digital listening. McKinsey & Company’s 2022 Global Survey on AI says , “AI adoption globally is 2.5x

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. Machine Learning, 57–78.

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Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan

Occam's Razor

Ask them what they worry about, ask them what they are solving for, ask them how they measure success, ask them what are two things on the horizon that they are excited about. The Future of Life Institute hosted a conference in Asilomar in Jan 2017 with just such a purpose. This is not the future, it is Nov 2017.

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Some highlights from 2020

Data Science and Beyond

I’ve been working remotely with Automattic since 2017, so I was pretty covid-ready as far as work was concerned. The initial covid-19 lockdown provided me with extra free time to make the measurement and offsetting of Automattic’s emissions from data centre power use happen. Remote work.

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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

Ontotext

The capacity and performance of supercomputers is measured with the so-called FLOPS (floating point operations per second). As of 2017, the fastest computers have reached a speed of 93 PetaFLOPS, which is: 93×1015, or 93,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. There are four types of data sources that the team will work with.