Both academically and professionally, more courses are being offered and developed to make more people comfortable with data, analysis and risk assessment. This necessitates some use of statistics, and software is pretty much a tool of the trade. Software — some new, some enhanced, some commercial and some open source
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Creative thinker and problem solver, Christine Anderson-Cook, is this month’s featured guest on Analytically Speaking. She has worked with the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2004, and currently leads a number of projects on complex system reliability, nonproliferation, malware detection and statistical process control. Our discussion
Think like a scientist, take inspiration from the world around us, enjoy learning new things, and share those learnings effectively are some of the key takeaways I took from interviewing the amazing Henry Reich for this month’s episode of Analytically Speaking. Henry is the creator of the very popular MinuteEarth
Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor, has been described by Scientific American as “…the most interesting and innovative experimental psychologist in the world today.” As luck would have it, he will speak at Discovery Summit Europe in Amsterdam to share his research on why some people lead happy, successful
Walt Disney once said, “We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Curiosity and passion can be powerful levers in opening new doors, making new discoveries and doing better — so says Jason Brinkley, Senior
Having polled some of my erudite friends and colleagues as well as having finished some noteworthy books these last several months, I developed a book list that may help with your holiday shopping (even if it’s for yourself). In preparing this list, I thought it might be useful to include
Last year, we gathered the highlights of almost three year’s worth of interviews with analytics experts who had appeared in the Analytically Speaking webcast series in a single video. That "best of" episode was so well-received that we decided to do it again. After reflecting on what our accomplished guests
DOE (design of experiments) certainly helps make the world a better place in big important ways, but it can also add to your personal quality of life. In addition to the practical and clever experiment designs that developers Ryan Lekivitz and Melinda Theilbar have recently discussed here in the JMP
David Trindade, Chief Officer of Best Practices at Bloom Energy, knows a lot about creating value. He is internationally renowned for his expertise in reliability analysis and has been honored with the IEEE Reliability Society 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. He co-authored a valued resource for reliability engineers, Applied Reliability, now
Fluid dynamics of peanut butter, biomechanics of diapers, aerodynamics of packaging potato chips, precision engineering to produce and perfectly perforate paper towels — rocket science is applicable to the manufacturing of these and many other products in ways that may surprise you. Achieving desired product attributes can be challenging, especially