{"id":2386,"date":"2020-04-17T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T07:16:22","slug":"how-predictive-analytics-knows-more-about-our-texting-habits-than-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/how-predictive-analytics-knows-more-about-our-texting-habits-than-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"How Predictive Analytics Knows More About Our Texting Habits than We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you text even just a few times a day, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve had that moment of clarity when you realize your phone knows you better than you know yourself, as it auto-filled a phrase that you use often, or auto-corrected your common misspelling of a proper term like a band name or movie you regularly reference.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThese are examples of your phone using predictive analytics, at a very baseline level. As the name implies,\u00a0predictive analytics<\/a>\u00a0use history-related algorithms and memory to \u201cpredict\u201d what will happen in the future. In your phone\u2019s case (no pun intended), it has learned from the history of your texts to predict what you will text in the future.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s how it all works:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Defining Analytics<\/strong><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe term \u201canalytics\u201d is quite broad, but can be broken down into three categories that help define it, as a whole: descriptive, prescriptive, and the aforementioned predictive.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDescriptive analytics is the collection of data followed by the organization and presentation of what was learned from analyzing the data. Some practical, every day examples of descriptive analytics would be determining the most popular travel destinations of 2019, or, more relative to texting, setting up parental controls on\u00a0social media to see your child\u2019s screen usage<\/a>\u00a0habits.\n\n\nPrescriptive analytics is utilize both descriptive and predictive analytics to determine the best courses of action for an individual or business. In short, descriptive tells us what happened, predictive tells us what to expect, and prescriptive ties the two together to determine what to do next.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How Does My Phone Know That?<\/strong><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust as computers need to be programmed before we can use them, our phones need to \u201clearn\u201d about us before they can truly build a good predictive analysis on what we might want to type. The part of your phone that gives you suggestions for quick fills while texting comes\u00a0programmed with data<\/a>\u00a0from the general public. This is why, when you first get a phone, it may frustrate you a lot changing things like \u201cZakk\u201d to \u201cZack\u201d even though the former is actually your friend\u2019s name (with the latter being a more common spelling and thus, pre-programmed into your phone based on descriptive analytics regarding the general public).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nEvery time you re-type \u201cZakk,\u201d your phone is collecting personal data that will soon outweigh the common data that was pre-programmed, ultimately using that personal data for predictive analysis of your word use. Over time,\u00a0your phone gets to know you better<\/a>\u00a0and better and will be auto-filling the word \u201ccoooooool\u201d to your exact number of preferred \u201co\u2019s.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How to Train Your Android (Or Any Other Type of Smartphone)<\/strong><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere are ways to \u201ctrain\u201d your telephone to make this transition from common data to personal data quicker and more effective. Whether pre-loaded on your phone, or a keyboard you\u2019ve downloaded, almost all of them will give at least three options when typing a word the phone does not recognize. The first is simply ignoring the requested change, keeping the word as is, and moving on. This will tell your phone that you prefer the \u201cincorrect\u201d use, but will still view the word as \u201cincorrect\u201d at other, unrelated mentions. If you decide to add the word to your phone\u2019s dictionary, it will no longer view that word as \u201cincorrect\u201d and will most likely not flag it for change again.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you accept a correction just to move past it, your keyboard will continue to make that correction, and most likely result in you using some choice words to describe it. Simply adding the word to your phone\u2019s dictionary will help keep a more positive relationship with your telephone!\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are examples of your phone using predictive analytics, at a very baseline level. As the name implies, predictive analytics use history-related algorithms and memory to “predict” what will happen in the future. In your phone’s case (no pun intended), it has learned from the history of your texts to predict what you will text in the future. If you accept a correction just to move past it, your keyboard will continue to make that correction and most likely result in you using some choice words to describe it. Learn how it all works:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":8080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[95],"ppma_author":[1665],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigdata-cloud","tag-big-data-amp-technology"],"authors":[{"term_id":1665,"user_id":129,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ryan-ayers","display_name":"Ryan Ayers","avatar_url":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/medium_1ecc58f3-1160-4f9e-9fe6-2028f872ed84-150x150.jpg","user_url":"","last_name":"Ayers","first_name":"Ryan","job_title":"","description":"Ryan Ayers CEO,\u00a0Ryan Ayers Communications, has consulted a number of Fortune 500 companies within multiple industries including information technology and big data.\n\n\u00a0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34993,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/34993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}