Harmoney has shared that they are working with DataRobot to improve credit assessments; DataRobot automates data science workflow and allows users to customize predictive models; Harmoney’s models have been trained on data from over 300,000 loan applications; previously it took them 12 to 16 weeks to deploy models, now it takes just minutes. Source
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