Here are a few examples of how predictive analytics is used in different fields:
- Retail – identifying potential customers by customer segmentation, sales forecasting to meet the market demands
- Health – predicting the spread of contagious diseases like Covid-19, predicting the probability of a person to affect by the disease.
- Weather – to forecast the temperature, rainfall, and cyclones.
- Finance – to predict fraudulent transactions, risk assessments in giving loans
- Entertainment – to recommend the related content in online streaming platforms by analyzing the user data like watch history, search keywords, etc.
- Human Resources – to predict employee performance using performance management system, to predict the employee attrition.
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