Predicting events using machine learning applied forecasting. Radinsky s is not the only software to make predictions. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Kira radinsky visitors computer science department. 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. 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. Israeli oracle kira radinsky can predict ebola outbreaks based on volcanic. Kira radinsky talks about her road to predicting the future, and saving lives.
In 2012, i cofounded salespredict, one of the fastgrowing companies in israel. In order to go to the next level, you had solve simple math problems, which became increasingly harder with time. 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. Predictive analytics for social good predictive analytics. She gained recognition after her software predicted the first in. She gained recognition after her software predicted the first in years outbreak of cholera in cuba. This scientist uses the new york times archive to eerily. Kira radinsky has created software that she says can foresee events months into the future. Radinsky represents both scientific and business excellence, having achieved an impressive exit with the sale of her innovative development, salespredict. Bored out of her skull, she wrote software to count the things and. Add open access links from to the list of external document links if available. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, tedx is a program of local.
View kira radinskys profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Kira now deploys her research for the prediction of cholera outbreaks worldwide and works with medical organizations to bring this into production. Aug 24, 20 israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future dr. 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. She started university at 15, earned her phd at 26 and founded two startups on the side. The new research is the latest in a number of similar initiatives that seek to mine web.
Predicting its future by dr kira radinsky, bigdata. Mining the web to predict future events eric horvitz. 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 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. Trusted by the worlds largest law firms, corporations and professional services firms. Studied in the technion excellence program top 1% of all technion students. She was four years old when her parents made aliyah. The 33yearold data scientist helping israel and the. Kira radinsky, creator of software that predicts geopolitical events radinsky tells ozy her work just automates and makes prediction more efficient. She helped build a predictive system that combined newspaper articles, wikipedia, and other open data sets.
Prototype software can give early warnings of disease or violence outbreaks by spotting clues in news reports. 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. The 33yearold data scientist helping israel and the world. Dec 23, 20 10 female founders to watch out of israel. 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.
Predicting events using machine learning kira radinsky has garnered international recognition for her work forecasting realworld events, like disease outbreaks and riots. Kira radinsky i am the proud director of data science of ebay after the acquisition of the company i cofounded, salespredict. Predictive analytics when machine learning meets real life. And while it surprised nearly everyone, a petite 27yearold israeli named kira radinsky says she saw the signs thanks to software she built. 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. Cto and cofounder, salespredict visiting professorscientist, technion. The prediction was made based on the pattern identified. Commercial companies like recorded future are already making smart guesses about future possibilities for customers in financial services and the defense industries. 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. Nov 18, 2014 kira radinsky has created software that she says can foresee events months into the future. Kira radinsky, 26, who started studying at the technion at 15, wins recognition from mit for pioneering software that finds. Kira is used at some of the worlds largest professional services firms.
Then i asked my aunt for help because she was a software engineer. 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. Less than 24 hours earlier, radinsky had received her phd from the technionisrael institute of technology in computer science. The queries people issue to a search engine and the results clicked following a query change over time. At microsoft, radinsky and microsoft researchs head eric horvitz built data mining software configured to predict disasters ranging from disease and epidemic. Software predicts tomorrows news by analyzing todays and yesterdays. Solving mysteries using predictive analytics oreilly radar. Radinsky is a graduate of technionisrael institute of.
Kira radinsky, cofounder of salespredict is a technion computer science graduate with three degrees from technion. She says it can foresee events months into the future. But software created by kira radinsky had predicted it months earlier. Join facebook to connect with kira radinsky and others you may know. Kira radinsky kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed. The cult of done manifesto defines the following prinicipals which i strive to live by. She even landed a spot in this years mit list of top 35 innovators under 35, alongside the likes of.
See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kiras connections and jobs at similar companies. Kira automatically highlights and extracts provisions that are important to you and helps you organize your data for analysis. When i was four or five, my mom bought me a computer game. But the technionmicrosoft solution, currently as pure research, is focused more on humanitarian questions. 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. Predictive algorithm helps companies better tailor pricing, policies and now future events. The technology weve developed attempts to find patterns that have not previously been observed in digital history, and it produces new probabilities. At, a prediction rule is generated based on the examples in the node section 4. Kira radinsky is a rising star in predictive analytics. Israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future dr. Israels kira radinsky listed on mits young innovators under 35 27yearold technion phd cocreated groundbreaking microsofts datamining disasterprediction software. Radinsky has developed unique methods of making alarmingly. Shes been splashed on the pages of newspapers worldwide as the 27yearold israeli prodigy who can predict the future.
Microsoft research and technionisrael institute of technology have been working on software that can predict events. Kira radinsky, prodigy seems to be an understatement. How two scientists are using the new york times archives to. Kira radinsky is an ukraine born israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining. We have all the information coming from south korea, italy and israel, radinsky said. 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. Prior to salespredict, zakaior held various product management positions at kontera, microsoft and quiver. Meet the women lighting the independence day torches. Just ask the weatherman, or seismologists or, for that. Kira radinsky s diagnostic robotics has developed an aibased platform to predict the spread of covid19 and triage patient care remotely. I think their technology is very interesting because they are using the wisdom of the masses to produce the prediction.
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. Today, besides being a passionate scientist, kira, a wife and mother, a resident of zichron yaakov, is a. Kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed up disaster prediction software in conjunction with microsoft research in redmond, wa. Microsoft technion effort mines old news for predictions. Kira radinsky kira radinsky of the technion has dreamed up. 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.
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. No one can predict the news, but kira radinsky gets close. Radinsky s software had essentially read 150 years of news reports and huge amounts of data from sources such as wikipedia. Kira enhances visibility into your contracts, making it easy to get a quick picture of contract terms. The 30yearold israeli who can predict the future business. 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. 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. Software predicts tomorrows news by analyzing todays and. She combines the use of artificial intelligence and online data mining to predict likely futures for individuals, societies, and businesses. For example, they examined the way that news about natural disasters like storms and droughts could be used to predict cholera outbreaks in angola.
Israeli web prophet maps the past to predict the future. Its based on humans repeating their patterns, noticing these patterns, and then producing probabilities that the patterns will repeat. 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. As she sat down to discuss the new software she and microsoft research have developed for disaster. Easily jump between summary text and the original scanned page. Predicting the future kira radinsky technion alumna youtube. Kira can make sense of files in any format, including scans of third party forms. The indiana jones of predictive analytics by sophie imas shes been splashed on the pages of newspapers worldwide as the 27yearold israeli prodigy who can predict the.
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