The value of high-performance analytics

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 25, 2012

Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still [...]

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Business Analytics is about change. Do something.

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 5, 2012

Time’s finite, right? In the immortal words of Prof. Bueller, “life moves pretty fast” – who wouldn’t kill for another six hours in the day? Most of my time is spent trying to work out how I’m going to do everything I wish I could do … If there’s one thing [...]

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High performance analytics

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|March 23, 2012

Now that the home renovations have slowed somewhat, I’ve had a bit more time to think about things that don’t involve moving bricks, arguing with tilers, or dealing with the seemingly endless rain we’ve had this summer. One of those things is high performance analytics, partly because it’s interesting but also because [...]

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How much is happiness worth?

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|August 24, 2011

Just because every sector can benefit from Business Analytics doesn’t mean that it’s easy. I always find applying analytics in the public sector a fascinating challenge – in the commercial sector, it’s normally fairly easy to identify the value being created. Revenue uplifts, deferred investments, cost reductions; these are all [...]

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Finding the right people is hard

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|August 11, 2011

The ideal business analytics practitioner is ridiculously multi-skilled. They need to be an expert mathematician. They need to intimately understand data warehousing and how to deal with Big Data. They need to understand not only their own industry sector and business, but also be able to translate innovations from other [...]

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Four ways analytics is going to change over the next decade

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|June 22, 2011

Anyone else remember these? We’ve come a long way. Things change, and they change quickly; the only eternal truth is that nothing’s constant. It’s glib, but it’s true. And, those who don’t (or can’t) adjust get relegated to the history books. There’s a storm brewing and, by my bet, the [...]

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Using SAS to make money

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|June 15, 2011

It’s a good time to know how to use SAS. Demand for people with SAS skills in Australia is through the roof. As of today, a search on Seek for jobs involving SAS skills returns 3,458 roles listed in the last 30 days, of which 636 (or almost 20%) are [...]

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Using salt for evil

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|January 13, 2011

Analytics is fun. Sexy, too! Had you told me that in High School, I would have laughed at you; basic statistics was hard enough back then, let alone trying to deal with linear algebra. The why we did it never made sense to me – we spent weeks covering differentials and [...]

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2010's top ANZ analytics trends

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|December 23, 2010

2010′s been an eventful year. Australia’s main focus seems to have been on politics and the economy – we’ve had political intrigue with Gillard seizing leadership from Rudd, an election which led to a hung parliament, and an ongoing fascination with bubbles and our local real-estate market. 2010 also saw [...]

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Flying around and having fun

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|November 23, 2010

Time flies when you’re having fun. And, we’re always having fun here at SAS – I guess that’s why so much time has passed! A lot’s happened since our last update; we’re coming to grips with our latest dashboards, we’re playing around with JMP 9, and we’re happily taking advantage [...]

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    In many ways, Australia and New Zealand are unique - we live a day in the future, our birds walk and our mammals lay eggs. However, one thing we have in common with the rest of the world is the need to be globally competitive while staying local. On this blog, Evan Stubbs and his colleagues provide a uniquely ANZ perspective on doing business, using analytics to be more effective, and life in the antipodes in general.

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