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PharmaVOICE recently published an article: Analytics Driven Marketing for the pharmaceutical industry and I was fortunate enough to be interviewed. The article discusses the increased use of advanced analytics to make better marketing decisions, the progress that has been made and the challenges that still need to be overcome. Within
Last month in Lessons from Danny I wrote about embracing the present. So naturally on Thanksgiving the universe decided to see if I practice what I preach. I had rented a beach house for my family. Thanksgiving morning we packed up the car: three adults, two dogs, and a full turkey
Hidely-hodely, everyone! As you might imagine, the size and variety of the gift inventory at the North Pole puts Wal-Mart to shame. And while we’ve been at this for hundreds of years, we still make too many of some things and not enough of others. No elf can forget the
Most people have logged on to a social media site, maybe to look up an old friend, acquaintance or family member. Some people play games, or post funny pictures or other information they want to share with everyone. Do you ever ask yourself what happens with this information? What if your business wanted to purchase this information and
“What’s your major?” All of us recognize the cliché intro line from our years at university. It was the fail-safe, go-to remark to get a conversation started. The most difficult time when meeting someone socially is the first few moments. First impressions are important and the interactions we have during
Anyone with children knows that the trip home from a holiday vacation can be excruciating. Just like adults, the anxiety about getting back to school/camp/daycare or just normal life often seeps into that last travel day. Everyone is tired and cranky and full of sugar after days of being spoiled
El cliente es primordial. Y la experiencia de cliente es el vehículo. Si su empresa entiende que sus clientes son el activo más importante y que los canales digitales le permiten tener millones de posibilidades de interacción, buscando siempre su satisfacción, felicitaciones: tiene una ventaja competitiva en el mercado actual.
Year-end outlooks from most analysts project the low-price environment in the oil market will continue for most of next year, but some pundits emphasize that the market has bottomed out and suggest recovery, though gradual, may be seen if increasing demand outpaces supply growth and sops up some of the
Will indexing my SAS data sets help? This is one of the most frequent questions I hear in SAS Technical Support. The response is always the same: “Maybe. Tell me about your data, and what you are doing with it.” Here is a primer on effective indexing. Indexing can improve
You’d better watch YouTube, you’d better not cry You’d better not post, I’m telling you why Big data is coming to town He’s making many lists (and selling them too), he’s writing it twice (for redundancy’s sake), He’s gonna find out whose naughty or nice Big data is coming to town
さて、今回ご紹介する例は、最近議論が活発な、「機械（コンピューター）が人間の作業を奪う（？）」お話です。 機械は人間から仕事（今回の例では、仕事ではなく娯楽と言ったほうが近いかもしれません）を奪ったことになるのでしょうか？それとも、真の楽しみを味わえるように、単に単純労働から開放してくれただけなのでしょうか？ 昨今、人工知能がもたらす変化という文脈で行われている議論ですが、今回は、昔からある最適化アルゴリズムで、人間の仕事を奪います。皆さんでその意味を考えてみてください。 イギリスの諜報機関GCHQがクリスマスメッセージとして送った難解なパズルが公開されており、優秀な人たちを楽しませています。その第一問が、以下の「お絵かきロジック」です。日本でも一時期流行しました。イラストロジックなどとも言われ、私自身もトライした記憶があります。 このパズルそのものについては、他の情報源に頼って欲しいのですが、簡単に説明すると、それぞれのセルを黒か白で塗りつぶすパズルで、行と列に書かれている数字は、黒マスが連続している数を順番どおりに示している「手がかり」です。いくつかのセルはすでに黒く塗りつぶされていますが、それらはこのパズルの答えを一つに確定するために必要です。 一部の箇所は、それぞれの行や列の情報だけを見て解くことが可能です。例えば、７番目の行を見てみましょう。手がかりは、(7 1 1 1 1 1 7)です。すなわち、全部で 7 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 7 = 19 個の黒いセルが必要となり、最低ひとマスは間隔が空いていないといけないので、7個の固まりの間の個数を考慮すると、7-1=6 個の白マスが必要となります。この二つの数字を足すと、19 + 6 = 25 となり一行の列数とおなじ数にちょうどなります。したがって、この結果から直ちにこの行の全てがあきらかになります。 黒7, 白1, 黒1, 白1, ・・・ ついてきていますよね。 しかし、そうは簡単にいかない箇所のほうが多いでしょう。その場合には、手がかりから部分的にしか黒く塗りつぶせないことになります。例えば、一行目を見てください。ヒントから(7 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 7) + (5
Over the course of my career as industrial engineer turned supply chain planning advocate I've had the opportunity to work hands-on with many manufacturing and supply chain planning solutions. This has included solutions offered commercially by the usual suspects of ERP and post-SCM consolidation supply chain solution providers. Most of these
In 2014, big data was on everyone’s mind. So in 2015, I expected to see data quality initiatives make a major shift toward big data. But I was surprised by a completely new requirement for data quality, which proves that the world is not all about big data – not
Here goes - a title for this week’s blog. Hmmm – How about “A few of my favorite things?” Um, no. I think, for me – what would be more apt is “Self Care during the holidays”, or maybe – “Some ways I try to stay sane during the holidays
Sometimes when trying to fuzzy match names you want to fuzzy match just a portion of the name: for example, Family Name and/or Given Name. A common mistake that people make is to feed in the Family Name and Given Name columns separately into the Match Codes node instead of