Title : 
Predictive [Guest editors´ introduction]
         
        
            Author : 
Brown, Donald E. ; Abbasi, Ahmed ; Lau, Raymond Y.K.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
University of Virginia
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The guest editors of this special issue on predictive analytics discuss how they split submissions between macro and micro levels, with the March/April installment covering the macro scale and May/June covering micro. All three articles are nice exemplars of predictive analytics, encompassing novel insights, key nuances, rigorous analytical methods, large-scale experimentation, and interesting findings and takeaways for important application domains.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Business; Electronic voting; Finance; Marketing and sales; Prediction methods; Predictive models; Special issues and sections; Predictive analytics; big data; intelligent systems;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MIS.2015.32