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I recently read an interesting article about petroleum coke (petcoke). A lot of it is produced in the US, and lately a lot of it is consumed (burned) in India ... contributing to air pollution there. The article mentioned some numbers in the text, but the data was really begging to
A steady drumbeat of news coverage makes one thing clear: Opioid abuse is rising and has reached epidemic levels throughout our country. Overdoses from the diversion and abuse of prescription opioids are one cause of the surge in deaths. Overdoses from heroin and other illicit synthetic opioids (such as heroin,
Welcome back from your Thanksgiving holiday break! I have to ask. Was your time with your returning college student as wonderful as you thought it would be? Chances are there were at least some brief moments of disappointment. You thought you’d have more time together…and, yet, your student spent more
Para nadie es un secreto que los asuntos regulatorios estarán entre los temas que mayor atención demandarán en el sector empresarial en Colombia en 2018, pues con la entrada de nuevos jugadores en industrias clave de la economía, reglamentar su actividad es primordial y las soluciones analíticas y de
En los años setenta el género se volvió muy relevante, se estrenaron filmes espectaculares, la televisión tocaba los temas tecnológicos, los programas de radio no se cansaban de reportear todo lo que producía la industria y, sobre todo, las personas comenzaron a expandir su mente. Cintas icónicas de la época
In my previous post, I described a new options to control the widths of the caps for Whiskers, Error and Limit bars. This topic could have been titled "Little things go a long way", as such details really make for a good graph. In a similar manner, another detail issue
The internet is rich with data, and much of that data seems to exist only on web pages, which -- for some crazy reason -- are designed for humans to read. When students/researchers want to apply data science techniques to analyze collect and analyze that data, they often turn to
데이터 매니지먼트가 중요한 이유 우리는 지금 데이터가 사회와 경제를 움직이는 ‘데이터 이코노미’ 시대에서 살고 있다. 시장조사업체 IDC는 전 세계 데이터 양은 매년 약 30% 증가해 2025년에는 현재보다 10배 늘어난 163제타바이트(ZB)에 이를 것으로 전망했다. 이처럼 폭증하는 빅데이터를 가트너(Gartner)에서는 ‘21세기 원유’로 규정하기까지 했다. 하지만 이제는 빅데이터를 단순한 ‘콘텐츠’가 아닌 ‘프로세스’와 ‘인프라’ 관점에서
During my 35 years of using SAS® software, I have found the CNTLIN and CNTLOUT options in the FORMAT procedure to be among the most useful features that I routinely suggest to other SAS users. The CNTLIN option enables you to create user-defined formats from a SAS data set (input
Imputing missing data is the act of replacing missing data by nonmissing values. Mean imputation replaces missing data in a numerical variable by the mean value of the nonmissing values. This article shows how to perform mean imputation in SAS. It also presents three statistical drawbacks of mean imputation. How
El divorcio comercial más hablado (brexit) tiene algunos conflictos de intereses por ambas partes, la Unión Europea trata de conseguir que Irlanda del Norte siga siendo un puerto de libre comercio y los británicos se niegan, no dejarán que su territorio quede fuera de sus manos. Tratar de aperturar esta
100년만의 최악의 허리케인, 푸에르토리코를 덮치다 지난 9월 20일, 북대서양과 카리브해 사이에 있는 미국 자치령 푸에르토리코(Puerto Rico)에 초강력 허리케인 마리아(Maria)가 상륙했습니다. 마리아는 시속 185마일(295㎞) 이상의 최고 단계인 5등급 허리케인으로 100년만의 최악의 피해를 남겼습니다. 더욱이 일명 괴물 허리케인이라고 불린 5등급 허리케인 어마(Irma)에 이어 단 2주만에 불어 닥친 재해로 340만 주민들은 엄청난 충격에
Swing through December with the Kettlebell swing! This is an intermediate-advanced, full-body movement that involves a bit of momentum and lots of dynamic, core strength. These will swing your heart rate in gear! Remember to use your hips, brace your core, and keep the bell at chest height or lower
Until recently state-of-the-art for trade area analytics still meant analyzing historical store sales by location, together with some Nielsen market data to select merchandise assortments and allocation. Contrast that with the upcoming holiday season where retailers know where and how demand is initiated, and use that new understanding to create
Podemos remontarnos hace un poco más de cien años, con un personaje icónico en la historia de la física Albert Einstein, quien realizó la teoría de la relatividad tocando como principal fundamento: el tiempo. ¿Usted se ha preguntado qué es el tiempo? La mayoría contesta que es el transcurso de