Predicting Customers' (Unedited) Behavior(blogs.hbr.org)

1 pointsby pjo14 yıl önce1 comments

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Predicting Customers' (Unedited) Behavior

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/09/predicting_customers_unedited_behavior.html

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ljensen14 yıl önce

In terms of predicting customers' behavior, this concept of holding a human context to Big Data is best illustrated with the story earlier this year in which Target predicted that a teenage girl was pregnant:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

In terms of predicting financial meltdowns, I'm interested in seeing how MIT thinks their data will change human behavior. For the most part, people know when financial bubbles are not sustainable; they just choose not to act.