Solving mysteries using predictive analytics oreilly radar. At microsoft, radinsky and microsoft researchs head eric horvitz built data mining software configured to predict disasters ranging from disease and epidemic. As she sat down to discuss the new software she and microsoft research have developed for disaster prediction, something more pressing was on her mind that she just had to share. Kira radinsky talks to nocamels about her awardwinning software that predicts the future shes been splashed on the pages of newspapers worldwide as the 27yearold israeli prodigy who can predict the future. Kira enhances visibility into your contracts, making it easy to get a quick picture of contract terms. The 33yearold data scientist helping israel and the. The 33yearold data scientist helping israel and the world. Radinsky is the cto and cofounder of salespredict, a sales technology company, where she is pioneering artificial intelligence based, predictive analytics solutions that transform the way companies do business dr. Today, besides being a passionate scientist, kira, a wife and mother, a resident of zichron yaakov, is a. Kira radinsky i am the proud director of data science of ebay after the acquisition of the company i cofounded, salespredict. Salespredict was cofounded in 2012 by yaron zakaior and kira radinsky and its main investors include yandex, afterdox, redline capital, kgc capital, and pitango venture capital. Software predicts tomorrows news by analyzing todays and yesterdays.
Predictive algorithm helps companies better tailor pricing, policies and now future events. Cto and cofounder, salespredict visiting professorscientist, technion. Bored out of her skull, she wrote software to count the things and. Studied in the technion excellence program top 1% of all technion students. She combines the use of artificial intelligence and online data mining to predict likely futures for individuals, societies, and businesses. The 30yearold israeli who can predict the future business. The epidemiological map and predictive ai tool is based on not just locally gathered information, but also the trajectory of the disease in other countries. She gained recognition after her software predicted the first in years outbreak of cholera in cuba. Kira radinsky kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed up. The new research is the latest in a number of similar initiatives that seek to mine web. Predicting the future kira radinsky technion alumna youtube. Kira radinsky, prodigy seems to be an understatement.
We have all the information coming from south korea, italy and israel, radinsky said. She says it can foresee events months into the future. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, tedx is a program of local. Kira radinsky, a brilliant computer scientist who has developed prediction software, has been selected by lady globes as 2016 woman of the year in its 50 most influential women project. Meet the women lighting the independence day torches. Kira radinsky, creator of software that predicts geopolitical events radinsky tells ozy her work just automates and makes prediction more efficient. For example, after the earthquake in japan in march 2011, the query japan spiked in popularity and people issuing the query were more likely to click governmentrelated results than prior to the earthquake. Kira is used at some of the worlds largest professional services firms. Kira radinsky visitors computer science department. This scientist uses the new york times archive to eerily. Microsoft technion effort mines old news for predictions. The cult of done manifesto defines the following prinicipals which i strive to live by.
The technology weve developed attempts to find patterns that have not previously been observed in digital history, and it produces new probabilities. Kira radinsky kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed. She gained recognition after her software predicted the first in. No one can predict the news, but kira radinsky gets close predictive algorithm helps companies better tailor pricing, policies and now future events this software can analyze news and predict disease, violence, and disaster. Kira radinsky has created software that she says can foresee events months into the future. Just ask the weatherman, or seismologists or, for that. But software created by kira radinsky had predicted it months earlier. Trusted by the worlds largest law firms, corporations and professional services firms. I think their technology is very interesting because they are using the wisdom of the masses to produce the prediction. Add open access links from to the list of external document links if available. Kira radinsky is an ukraine born israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining.
Kira radinsky s diagnostic robotics has developed an aibased platform to predict the spread of covid19 and triage patient care remotely. The prediction was made based on the pattern identified. Kira radinsky has written an algorithm that dissects old news stories and other internet postings to look for past cause and effect, and then can alert us to possible disasters, geopolitical. Nov 18, 2014 kira radinsky has created software that she says can foresee events months into the future. Kira radinsky talks about her road to predicting the future, and saving lives. Her work focuses on the intersection of predictive data mining and the construction of algorithms that leverage webfound information and external dynamics to predict future events. How two scientists are using the new york times archives to. Kira now deploys her research for the prediction of cholera outbreaks worldwide and works with medical organizations to bring this into production. Feb 01, 20 eric horvitz of microsoft research and kira radinsky of the technionisrael institute describe their work in a newly released paper, mining the web to predict future events pdf.
Prior to salespredict, zakaior held various product management positions at kontera, microsoft and quiver. Kira automatically highlights and extracts provisions that are important to you and helps you organize your data for analysis. Predictive analytics when machine learning meets real life. She was four years old when her parents made aliyah. My passion has always been in mining data from my phd in the field of web dynamics and temporal information retrieval, to our exciting work in salespredict, and the medical data mining that we do probono.
Predictive analytics for social good predictive analytics. Israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future dr. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. She helped build a predictive system that combined newspaper articles, wikipedia, and other open data sets. Radinsky represents both scientific and business excellence, having achieved an impressive exit with the sale of her innovative development, salespredict. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kiras connections and jobs at similar companies. Tweet share post researchers at microsoft s msft and the technionisrael institute of technology are creating software that analyzes 22 years of new york times archives, wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths and hopefully prevent them. Mining the web to predict future events eric horvitz. Dec 23, 20 10 female founders to watch out of israel.
Scott david radinsky born march 3, 1968 is an american lefthanded former relief pitcher in major league baseball, who had an 11year career from 19901993 and 19952001. She even landed a spot in this years mit list of top 35 innovators under 35, alongside the likes of. Aug 24, 20 israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future dr. Kira radinsky, 26, who started studying at the technion at 15, wins recognition from mit for pioneering software that finds. Kira radinsky is a rising star in predictive analytics. Prototype software can give early warnings of disease or violence outbreaks by spotting clues in news reports.
Kira can make sense of files in any format, including scans of third party forms. Israels kira radinsky listed on mits young innovators under 35 27yearold technion phd cocreated groundbreaking microsofts datamining disasterprediction software. Radinsky s is not the only software to make predictions. Radinsky has developed unique methods of making alarmingly. Radinsky s software had essentially read 150 years of news reports and huge amounts of data from sources such as wikipedia. Predicting its future by dr kira radinsky, bigdata.
Kira radinsky is an ukraineborn israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining she gained recognition after her software predicted the first in years outbreak of cholera in cuba. Kira radinsky is one of the up and coming voices in the data science community, pioneering the field of web dynamics and temporal information retrieval. Less than 24 hours earlier, radinsky had received her phd from the technionisrael institute of technology in computer science. Shes been splashed on the pages of newspapers worldwide as the 27yearold israeli prodigy who can predict the future. Radinsky is also the lead singer of the punk rock band pulley, former lead singer of the bands scared straight and ten foot pole and owner of the skate park which. In 2012, i cofounded salespredict, one of the fastgrowing companies in israel. Software predicts tomorrows news by analyzing todays and. In the prediction phase, the new event is matched to a node in the at, and the associated rule is applied on it to produce the e. Join facebook to connect with kira radinsky and others you may know. Easily jump between summary text and the original scanned page. Data accumulated in israels ecological system is the basis for automated diagnostic tools that predict the future of global medicine. As she sat down to discuss the new software she and microsoft research have developed for disaster. For example, they examined the way that news about natural disasters like storms and droughts could be used to predict cholera outbreaks in angola. Then i asked my aunt for help because she was a software engineer.
The queries people issue to a search engine and the results clicked following a query change over time. Israeli oracle kira radinsky can predict ebola outbreaks based on volcanic. Kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed up disaster prediction software in conjunction with microsoft research in redmond, wa. She started university at 15, earned her phd at 26 and founded two startups on the side. Predicting events using machine learning applied forecasting. Predicting events using machine learning kira radinsky has garnered international recognition for her work forecasting realworld events, like disease outbreaks and riots. Radinsky is a graduate of technionisrael institute of. In order to go to the next level, you had solve simple math problems, which became increasingly harder with time. No one can predict the news, but kira radinsky gets close. Kira radinsky used algorithms to predict riots in egypt today, radinsky, 30, has made millions from predictive analytics, after ebay bought salespredict, the startup she helped found four years ago. Radinsky is also the lead singer of the punk rock band pulley, former lead singer of the bands scared straight and ten foot pole and owner of the skate park which houses the skateboarding hall of fame. How two scientists are using the new york times archives.
But the technionmicrosoft solution, currently as pure research, is focused more on humanitarian questions. When i was four or five, my mom bought me a computer game. At, a prediction rule is generated based on the examples in the node section 4. Commercial companies like recorded future are already making smart guesses about future possibilities for customers in financial services and the defense industries. Kira radinsky, cofounder of salespredict is a technion computer science graduate with three degrees from technion. Microsoft research and technionisrael institute of technology have been working on software that can predict events. And while it surprised nearly everyone, a petite 27yearold israeli named kira radinsky says she saw the signs thanks to software she built. Its based on humans repeating their patterns, noticing these patterns, and then producing probabilities that the patterns will repeat. Israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future.
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