What do I mean by “analytic workbench?” Basically, the compute-resource environment with which data analysis takes place. All of us deal with data at some level, and all of us can benefit from making sense of our data more efficiently and effectively. See if there are opportunities to make the analytic workbenches in your organization more productive.
As an organic gardener with spring approaching, I have seeds and soil on my mind. I like to see seeds sprout, grow, flourish and either bloom or bear fruit.
Watching my daughter occasionally play Birds and Blocks or other games on the iPad causes me to ponder the level of interactivity and visual design we have come to expect in so many interfaces — the internet, mobile devices, PC apps, dashboards and more.
As we wind down in 2012 and reflect on the past, we also want to look ahead. Next year will be an even bigger year for analytics. 2013 is the first International Year of Statistics, a worldwide celebration of statistics.
Many consider data visualization and information visualization to be synonymous. However, in the context of a data-information continuum, we begin to see that there are important differences.
More than a decade ago when data mining was relatively new (remember the commercial with fashion models talking about mining their data on the runway?), many were advocating mining all of the (mostly transactional) data and had to be educated…
2011 was a year of great change—a move back to the south for my husband’s new job, new school for our daughter, a transition to a new position in the JMP division of SAS (which I love), and several other changes requiring us to adapt. Change is one thing we can count on. When we [...]
A series of examples highlighting the cross-pollination of analytical methods and ideas. Diversity fuels innovation. The joke about the physicist, chemist, and statistician also suggests that at times diversity impedes progress: These three scientists are called to a room where they see a fire in the wastebasket. The physicist says, “I know what to do! [...]
Several years ago, we noticed some interesting new executive titles elevating the stature of analytics: Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Problem-Solving Officer. The CAO title even has a Wikipedia entry. In addition, other titles we have seen for a while are starting to span into more industries: Chief Scientist (not for your typical research organization, [...]
