It is now beyond dispute that predictive analytics and data mining have the potential to positively impact numerous aspects of our lives. Examples are all around us. However, to date, the beneficial impact of predictive analytics have been confined only to relatively few large enterprises and wealthy developed nations with the resources to develop complex prediction models.
Snap is proud to join the world-wide community of individuals and organizations dedicated to demystifying and democratizing predictive analytics.
We are off to a good start, but we are aware we have a way to go. We will continue to work with the community to enhance the Snap Analytx platform to facilitate the sharing of knowledge throughout the global community.
Snap has created a dedicated version of its online service to enable students, academicians and researchers to easily collaborate on their predictive analytics and data mining project.
Using the platform users can create predictions models and quickly share them with other collaborators such as students in a class, colleagues in your department or fellow researchers/academicians anywhere in the world
With the Snap collaboration platform for academic and research institutions, you can invite other collaborators (individual or groups) by just sending the model URLs. You can send the URLs via email, Twitter, texting or any other means of your choosing. You can control what the invitees can do with the models.
Snap is working with a select number of universities and research labs to pilot the program. If you are interested in participating in this program or would like to know more, please contact us at info@snapanalytx.com
... Open marketplace for predictive models is a good idea. We could certainly use some of the models that could help us solve some of our predictive modeling problems. I am glad to see Snap Analytx stepping up to create such a marketplace.
... Having a marketplace for predictive models is a great way of ensuring the promised benefits of the Big Data and Analytics revolution actually reach both data scientists and data consumers in a fair way. As a longtime advocate of marketplaces for algorithms, I am happy to see the emergence of companies like Snap Analytx, dedicated to filling this critical market need.... Open marketplaces for predictive analytics are an innovative way to share pre-built
prediction models. I am excited that Snap Analytx supports the Predictive Model Markup
Language (PMML) industry standard. PMML empowers the vision of an open marketplace for predictive analytics in which standards-based models can easily be shared in a transparent way and instantly deployed across various operational platforms.... It was easy to submit my model to the Snap Analytx marketplace. My model is implemented in C++ and Fortran and runs on Windows. I was able to submit it ‘as’ is with very little modification ... As an entrepreneur I am very happy that an open marketplace like Snap Analytx exists. I expect Snap Analytx to expose my model to thousands of potential customers worldwide. It saves me the cost and effort of marketing and selling my models by myself.
... Understanding statistics and machine learning is hard,
building good predictive models is harder; but using them shouldn't be.
Snap Analytx's iTunes style predictive modeling appstore makes this vision a reality.
Now everyone can bring their homebrew Kool-Aid to the party, and everyone can sip their favorite flavors!"
