Walmart's top four things not to do as a data miner

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 11, 2011

Getting a start as an analyst can be hard – leaving the protected confines of academia and all the clean data you can eat can be a shock worse than a cold shower on a summer’s day. One of the great things about a conference like INFORMS is getting access [...]

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If you want to be relevant, be part of the big picture

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 11, 2011

Radhika Kulkarni is not only a good speaker, she’s sharp. As our Vice President in charge of Advanced Analytics R&D, that’s not surprising. What impressed me the most about her talk though was the ease with which she leapt between the strategic to the technical, all without batting an eyelid! While [...]

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Want to get attention?

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 11, 2011

Chuck Holland, VP of Engineering at UPS, made a good point today at INFORMS – if you want to get someone’s attention, date their daughter. The link between that and business analytics may seem more than a little tenuous, but it’s a good one – as most parents will probably [...]

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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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