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DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis

Posted by samzenpus on from the tea-leaves-and-chicken-bones dept.

itwbennett writes "The Chicago-based DePaul University will offer what it says is the nation's first master's degree in predictive analysis, the school announced on Wednesday in conjunction with IBM, which will provide resources for the program. 'We realized there was a need to create a program that prepared students in careers in data analytics and business intelligence,' said Raffaella Settimi, an associate professor at DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, who helped craft the program. 'A lot of the professionals who work in these fields have a variety of backgrounds, but there really isn't a program dedicated to data analytics,' Settimi said."

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  1. In Other Word: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    statistics.

    Yours In Chicago,
    Kilgore Trout

    1. Re:In Other Word: by srussia · · Score: 4, Insightful

      statistics.

      As Feynman might have said, Statistics is to Predictive Analytics as Mathematics is to Physics.

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  2. Re:wha? by cerberusss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have an M.S. in predictive analytics, and I'm only months away from my Ph.D.

    Knowing some Ph.D.'s, that's a pretty bold prediction :D

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  3. Re:Psychohistory by RivenAleem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you have not already been contacted to take part, it is because it had been mathematically determined that you would provide no useful input.

  4. Predictive statistics is a Fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wonder what Nassim Taleb would say about this degree?

    He would probably point out that it amounts to an advanced degree in practical fraud perpetuation.

    Standard Gaussian statistics cannot accurately predict anything that matters.