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Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 5/22/2013
When my daughter was little, she had a nightmare-inducing fear of hurricanes -- irrationally so since we live in Chicago and, while Lake Michigan is big, it is but a lake. Now a tornado? Well...
Noreen Seebacher, Community Editor , 5/22/2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nate Silver has been called a "spreadsheet psychic" and "number-crunching prodigy." Yesterday morning, before his keynote address at the 2013 SAS Government Leadership Summit here, he was just a guy at a table, patiently signing copies of his book.
Bryan Beverly, Statistician, Bureau of Labor Statistics , 5/22/2013
If anyone asked you about the relationship between Aristotle and analytics, your immediate response might be, "What does philosophy have to do with number crunching?" Of the times SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has spoken at analytic conferences, he's not been seen wearing a toga, after all.
Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 5/21/2013
YouTube is celebrating its eighth anniversary this month, in part with the launch of its first-ever Comedy Week. While we admit to loving a good comedic YouTube video, where it's really at, we think, is data.
Noreen Seebacher, Community Editor , 5/21/2013
Steven Mornelli thinks it's time to cut through the hype surrounding big-data. That's why he and three of his colleagues formed The NYC Data Skeptics Meetup, a new group designed to examine the mathematical, ethical, and business aspects of data from a skeptical perspective. It will meet for the first time in Manhattan on June 19.
Emmett Cox, Customer Experience Executive in Banking, Retail Analytics Consultant , 5/21/2013
As an analytics executive and proud data and technology nerd, I know it's never too late to re-learn -- to adapt, improvise, and overcome -- and, most important, to be curious. So for me all the years I've spent working with data have been so much fun!
Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 5/20/2013
Among all the metrics your company measures, one of the most critical is most likely missing: the distance between the business decision maker and the quant supplying the information. It's time to narrow that gap.
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John Balla, Customer Intelligence Marketer , 5/22/2013
Let me begin by saying that I am a huge fan of LinkedIn. To folks who do not know LinkedIn, I always describe it as a "serious social network."
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Next time you see one of those ubiquitous brown UPS trucks trundling along, think about this tidbit one company executive recently shared with me: That driver has more ways to run his delivery route than the number of nanoseconds the earth has been in existence.
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