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big data
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mike Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets (Part 1)
Marketing technologies are hot these days, and Metamarkets is doing some cutting edge analytics in the media buying area. Very interesting. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Metamarkets and yourself. Mike Driscoll: I’m the CEO and Founder of Metamarkets. We are a SaaS software platform that provides interactive analytics to the roles
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Krishna Venkatraman, Senior Vice President of Analytics at OnDeck (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The next question I’m going to ask you is that you said you have different heuristics and different nuances from one segment to another. Could you give us some examples of what you check for one industry and how you structure another? Krishna Venkatraman: If you’re looking at a landscape that has a seasonal
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Krishna Venkatraman, Senior Vice President of Analytics at OnDeck (Part 2)
Krishna Venkatraman: In the case of understanding credit-worthiness, for example, the signals that will allow us to make good decisions reside in many different places. The first is information you get from Bureaus. That will tell you something about how businesses have been discharging on their past obligations. How did they behave when they had
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Krishna Venkatraman, Senior Vice President of Analytics at OnDeck (Part 1)
The online lending industry is going through rapid changes with the advent of big data and machine learning in processing loan applications. Krishna discusses OnDeck’s workings. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with talking a bit about yourself in setting some context, and also introduce our audience to what OnDeck is doing in the realm of Big
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Scott Zoldi, Chief Analyst Officer at FICO (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let me now ask you given the trends of your industry, what are you seeing as open problems that need addressing where new entrepreneur can build stuff around? Scott Zoldi: I’ll phrase it in terms of problems and opportunities. From a problem perspective, there are a lot of regulations that are coming up
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Scott Zoldi, Chief Analyst Officer at FICO (Part 3)
Scott Zoldi: These are technologies that are facilitated in Big Data because we have the ability, with the Storm-based architectures today, to build a model that reaches out to a NoSQL database, retrieves a data record associated with your previous transaction history. That data record is not of the transactions you did in the past
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Scott Zoldi, Chief Analyst Officer at FICO (Part 2)
Scott Zoldi: We’ve developed, since the year 1992, technology that allows us to do that real time assessment of fraud risk using technologies like Storm, NOSql so that we can persist data in a summarised way and retrieve it very efficiently. That is one of the major areas for FICO and many of the products
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Scott Zoldi, Chief Analyst Officer at FICO (Part 1)
Have you noticed that your credit card sometimes declines transactions or flags fraud alerts? This conversation will help you understand the backstory of that workflow and potentially trigger other ideas in that domain. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to FICO. Scott Zoldi: I’m the Chief Analyst Officer
