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Philip Boxley
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Sr Solutions Architect

Philip (Sed) Boxley is a Sr. Technical Architect in the America’s Business Visualization Practice concentrating on SAS Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics. He has been with SAS for almost seventeen years. Prior to joining SAS, Sed held various positions in government consulting, banking and technology companies.

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Is big data really better?

Recently, I was reading an online article about predictive modeling and "big data."  Its premise was to determine whether the use of big data actually led to more accurate and meaningful predictive models and forecasts.  After citing numerous external examples and internal tests that the authors had compiled, it stated