Siren has formed a strategic partnership with Praescient Analytics, a provider of intelligence analysis to the U.S. federal government, to develop Praescient's investigative platforms, Siren said Thursday. 

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Timothy Murphy, a former FBI deputy director and previous vice president of corporate compliance at MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, has joined Praescient Analytics“™ board of directors. Murphy began his career with the FBI as a special agent and later served as associate deputy director and chief financial officer before he was named deputy director, Praescient said Tuesday. “Tim […] More

James Spencer, analyst consultant at Praescient, believes coordination between the data analyst and data engineer is key in work to extract insights from big data. “The problem as I see it is that many enterprises deal with analysis and engineering as two separate entities that don“™t really talk to each other,” Spencer said Friday. He said the data scientists […] More

Praescient Analytics has highlighted three ways healthcare providers could apply to efforts to stop the spread of Ebola virus. Praescient said Wednesday that healthcare organizations could minimize the number of Ebola infections of their workers if low infection probability is factored into infection prevention protocols. The low infection probability is based on a comparison by Brookings Institution nonresident senior fellow […] More

Praescient Analytics has unveiled a new page on its website that is for the public to view video demonstrations of the company’s workflows on projects that support government, military, law enforcement, intelligence and commercial operations. The Analysis Demo Library includes workflows for addressing issues such as cyber attacks, fraud, waste, smuggling and trafficking using Praescient technology tools, the company said. Praescient […] More

Praescient Analytics will market TransVoyant“™s cloud-based data analytics offerings with the goal of helping customers respond to global security threats. TransVoyant’s algorithms, analytics and data streams will be available to Praescient clients under the partnership, TransVoyant said Monday. Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics, said TransVoyant designed its technologies to help address customer requirements for situational […] More

Praescient Analytics is a finalist in the technology innovator category of SmartCEO magazine’s Voltage Award, which recognizes companies that the publication deems as innovators in the big data field. SmartCEO highlighted Praescient“™s work with executives and leaders and policymakers to combine human characteristics with technology in big data organizations, the company announced Wednesday. The publication […] More

Praescient Analytics collaborated with data visualization technology firm SynGlyphX to study possible arms trafficking activities of an Iran-based shipping operator. A team of Praescient analysts created a use case model to trace the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines‘ vessel movement patterns by using a SynGlyphX-made interactive platform, Praescient said Thursday. Researchers gathered shipping data […] More

Praescient Analytics has assembled a new analytics-as-a-service team to track suspicious patterns in the healthcare system that could indicate fraudulent activity. The company said Thursday that its A3S team looks at services provided at hospitals, individual practices and other aspects such as specialist referrals to detect potential issues such as duplicate and unnecessary lab work. Analysts will work to sort […] More

Praescient Analytics has been certified to join a Virginia Department of Veterans Services-run program that aims to help companies recruit and retain military veterans. The Virginia Values Veterans initiative offers tools, incentives and training for Virginia companies to keep a certain number of former service members for at least one year, according to a Wednesday […] More

A team of Praescient Analytics researchers collaborated with a university research center during the week leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl to study sex and drug trafficking in New Jersey and New York, Bloomberg reported Jan. 31. Michael Riley writes the company’s team worked to collect Internet data on telephone numbers and coded language used […] More

Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics, has been inducted into the 2014 class of The Truman National Security Project’s Truman Defense Council, a Washington-based leadership development program. The council is comprised of military veterans currently in the business community that carry out training and conferences to discuss issues such as national security and foreign relations, […] More