Tag: statistics

Advanced Analytics | Analytics
Dylan Sweetwood 0
SAS loves math: Tonya Balan

A senior manager in the analytics product management group, Tonya Balan sees herself as a bridge between SAS customers and R&D, ensuring that SAS products stay relevant to the needs of the customer. With a background in statistics and experience as a college professor, Tonya shares her excellent advice and

Dylan Sweetwood 0
SAS loves math: The series

I’m very pleased to introduce a new blog series called “SAS Loves Math!” This series will feature interviews with SAS employees who simply love math. Now, I know what you’re probably thinking: of course SAS loves math! We are, after all, an analytical software company. But what often goes unmentioned

Analytics | Risk Management
Leo Sadovy 8
Conversational analytics

When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus.  But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than

Analytics
Mike Nemecek 0
Analytics gone wild?

A recent post on the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) site, Analytics Conferences Gone Wild!, is*not* about how statisticians are sexy. Yes, I'm recalling that memorable quote in the August 2009 NY Times story, "For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics,” which included the following quote: “I keep saying that

Jonathan Hornby 0
OMG, I LV SCHL!

It never ceases to amaze me how and where Business Analytics can add value. While researching for this week’s post, I came across a story that used the title of this post as a sub heading (OMG, I LUV SCHL!). According to Timothy Darley, Superintendent Granville Country Schools “Our graduation

Jonathan Hornby 0
Business Analytics 101: Statistics

~ Contributed by Mike Gilliland ~ Theoretical mathematics has beauty and elegance, along with logical rigor. Mathematical conjectures – or even real-life conjectures that can be formulated as such – can often be proven or disproven with certainty. And then there is Statistics Statistics provide a mathematical foundation for the