Is Predictive Modeling Dead?

Summary:  Is predictive modeling dead?  Have we wasted our time practicing this?  I don’t think so but here are some interesting thoughts to the contrary.

I just read a thought provoking article by Smita Adhikary of Big Data Analytic Hires under the title “Is Logistic Regression Dead?”  (https://insidebigdata.com/2015/07/29/data-science-101-is-logistic-regression-dead/).  And I might well have passed over this as a narrow observation about a single ML technique.  Except that on taking another look what she’s really proposing is that Predictive Modeling in total is dead? 

Read the article here.