Predictive Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data

First and foremost I would like to thank my wife Samantha and my parents
Paul and Ann for their support, comments and proofreading services. I would
also like to thank my friend Tracy Moore for providing many useful comments
and suggestions on early drafts of the manuscript. Thanks also to the staff of
the Management Science Department at Lancaster University in the UK for
providing access to the university facilities, which proved invaluable to my
writing and research. I am also grateful to the members of the UK Government
Operational Research Service (GORS), and in particular my former colleagues
in Manchester and Liverpool, for many hours spent chewing over the finer
points of predictive analytics, Big Data and life in general during the writing
of the book