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Editor's note: This blog post is part of a series of posts, originally published here by our partner News Literacy Project, exploring the role of data in understanding our world. As discussed in previous posts, statistics and visual representations of data can be misleading. But what happens when the data itself is misleading? And if data is
A note from Udo Sglavo: A wealth of connectivity is pervasive in the data we gather across many industries. In other words, networks are all around us. A data science trend you cannot ignore is to organize, learn from, and drive decision-making based on connected data. Network analytics engines provide efficient
I believe the most important part of the analytics lifecycle is defining the business question being asked.
Most games of skill are transitive. If Player A wins against Player B and Player B wins against Player C, then you expect Player A to win against Player C, should they play. Because of this, you can rank the players: A > B > C Interestingly, not all games
How banks and government could work together to solve the UK’s burgeoning debt crisis
Recientemente, fueron publicados los resultados del Informe sobre el Futuro de los Empleos del Foro Económico Mundial, el cual no solo traza el mapa de lo que serán los empleos y las habilidades del futuro, sino que tiene en consideración el impacto que producirá en la forma de trabajar en la
On Friday Nov 27, 2:00pm GMT (9:00am EST in the US), Robert Fildes is presenting his latest research in the webinar "What do we need to know about Forecast Value Added?" This is part of the Lancaster University Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting's "CMAF Friday Forecasting Talks." Here is
In football, five out of the 11 players on offense are on the field to accomplish one goal: keep the defenders as far away from the ball as possible. Sometimes it’s more than five. Teams will bring extra linemen on short-play packages. Tight ends and full backs might check in
We kunnen er niet meer omheen, data en analytics zijn overal aanwezig in ons dagelijks leven. In organisaties groot en klein wordt de behoefte om eindelijk eens iets met de data te gaan doen alsmaar sterker. We kunnen zo enkele vraagstukken in onze samenleving opnoemen die we met data en
SAS' Sandy Gibbs kicks off a series of posts on hot fixes for SAS®9 environments.
It’s been a few years since I read Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, but it continues to inspire me to think about purposefulness in relation to gathering. A good gathering, a good friendship, a good relationship; all are going to be the product of mindful and purposeful effort. As
La décima edición del Buen Fin, el evento comercial más importante en México, será relativamente distinta a las de años anteriores: la pandemia por COVID-19 y el cierre de las tiendas físicas durante una larga temporada aceleraron la digitalización de los retailers en la carrera por brindar a los consumidores
What comes to mind when you think of a “homeless person”? Chances are, you’ll picture an adult, probably male, dirty, likely with some health conditions, including a mental illness. Few of us would immediately recall homeless individuals as family members, neighbors, co-workers and other loved ones. Fewer still are likely aware of how many youths (both minors and young adults) experience homelessness annually. Homeless youth is a population who can
It’s no surprise that nonprofit organizations providing health-related services are overconsumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about other types of nonprofits? According to CNM President and CEO, Tina Weinfurther, the pandemic has affected nonprofits in different ways. Some are running on fumes, while others have doubled in size and
I previously showed how to create a decile calibration plot for a logistic regression model in SAS. A decile calibration plot (or "decile plot," for short) is used in some fields to visualize agreement between the data and a regression model. It can be used to diagnose an incorrectly specified