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Predictive Analytics for Retail Businesses

December 2014

DOI:10.13140/2.1.1457.3124

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Gopalakrishna Palem

What business owners want? • Gain new customers • Retain old customers and make them come back (again and again) • Edge out the competition • The Million Dollar Question: How? • Enter Big Data Analytics.

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