Cars today can drive themselves, objects can be printed at home, and appliances we can control with our thoughts. Then it's not so strange that we can predict how things will be tomorrow, right?
The magic formula for this, explains chief data scientist at Altares - Dun & Bradstreet Benelux Joris Peeters, is as follows: an ever-growing mountain of data + data mining + machine learning techniques + statistical algorithms and models.
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