RapidMiner CEO Ingo Mierswa talks about “predaction”, reasons for RapidMiner popularity, business source model, analytics to investigate fraud, key turning points, and more.
By Ajay Ohri, DecisionStats, June 2014.
Here is my interview with Ingo Mierswa, co-founder and CEO of RapidMiner.
Ingo Mierswa is an industry-veteran data scientist since starting to develop RapidMiner at the AI Division of the University of Dortmund, Germany. Mierswa has authored numerous award-winning publications about predictive analytics and big data. Mierswa, the entrepreneur, is the founder of RapidMiner. Under his leadership RapidMiner has grown up to 300% per year over the past five years. In 2012, he spearheaded the go-international strategy with the opening of offices in the US.