At a recent lunch, a few high-performing analysts and I were talking, and it came out that all of us happened to be amateur musicians. After a few more random inquiries to colleagues, I wondered if there is a significant a link between learning to play/interpret music and skill in analytics. I also thought about [...]

I first heard of kaggle.com six months ago when a friend who manages a team of statisticians commented, “My analysts are obsessed with Kaggle, they can’t get enough free time to work on the contests.” I created an account of my own the next day to see what is pulling analytics professionals to the site. Anthony [...]