If you're new to the concept of predictive models, or just want to review the background on how data scientists learn from past data to predict the future, you may be interested in my talk from the Data Insights Summit, Introduction to Real-Time Predictive Modeling.
In the talk above I gave a brief introduction to the R language and mentioned several applications using R. If you'd like to get started with R, you might like to follow along with my co-blogger Joseph Rickert's beginners workshop, Supercharge Your Data Analysis With R:
You can follow along with Joe's session by downloading Microsoft R Open and using the scripts in this GitHub repository.
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