Data. Our industry really loves that word, making it seem like the whole world revolves around it. We certainly enjoy revolving a lot of words around it. We put words like master, big, and meta before it, and words like management, quality, and governance after it. This spins out disciplines
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Data needs a Copernican Revolution
Los cuatro mitos de un CIO moderno
Un Chief Information Officer tiene ciertas características que lo hacen desempeñarse dentro de un rol único. Sin embargo, gracias a los retos que conlleva ahora la implementación de proyectos de analítica avanzada en las organizaciones, han surgido algunos mitos que rodean el rol de TI. Keith Collins, Vicepresidente Senior de
The Wishart distribution: Covariance matrices for multivariate normal data
I've written about how to generate a sample from a multivariate normal (MVN) distribution in SAS by using the RANDNORMAL function in SAS/IML software. Last week a SAS/IML programmer showed me a program that simulated MVN data and computed the resulting covariance matrix for each simulated sample. The purpose of