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Anne Milley
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Sr Director, Analytic Strategy, JMP

Anne oversees analytic strategy in JMP Product Marketing. She is a contributing faculty member for the International Institute of Analytics. She enjoys organic gardening and spending time with her family.

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Clap your hands for business analytics

This is the second in my two-post interview series with Gert Laursen and Jesper Thorlund, authors of the book, Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting. Part one covered data visualization and the cross-functional purpose of business analytics. Here, we talk about analytic talent, measuring innovation and educating

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The human element of business analytics

I recommend the book Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting for managers who want a strategic view on what it takes to create ongoing value from data. To tap into more of the strategic thinking in this book, I asked authors Gert Laursen and Jesper Thorlund a

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Interview with a former government statistician

Since World Statistics Day is focused primarily on honoring government statisticians globally, I thought I'd do a quick interview with Jared Dean. Currently a Director of SAS R&D for Analytics Testing, Dean worked for the U.S. Census Bureau before coming to SAS. Anne: Happy World Statistics Day! As someone who

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Playing in Everyone’s Backyard

One of my all-time favorite quotes is from John Tukey: “The best part about being a statistician is you get to play in everyone’s backyard."? Statistics (and more broadly, analytics) contributes to and draws from multiple disciplines. There is a unity to analytical methods: The same method used in quantitative

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Analytics is still our middle name

Big news in our industry this morning: IBM plans to buy analytics software vendor SPSS for $1.2 billion. In one sense, I'm sad to see SPSS disappearing into the large IBM stack. Besides SAS, SPSS was one of the last independent analytic software companies. A colleague says, “It’s the end

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Text Analytics Summit - Day 2:

Wow--attending the 5th annual Text Analytics Summit was truly an enriching experience. My compliments to Seth Grimes and the conference organizers for convening such interesting speakers and content. Day 2 started with Sue Feldman and Hadley Reynolds of IDC. Key takeaways from their keynote, Text Analytics Market Report: Think about

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