Perhaps you’ve heard of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Started in 1992, this event takes place on the fourth Thursday in April and is intended to broaden the horizons of our young people and to help them explore life choices. Long before this day officially existed on
If you’ve been over to sas.com at all in the last week, you’ve probably noticed our relaunched site. The changes are kind of hard to miss. But it’s not just the home page that’s changed. And it’s not just a cosmetic redesign. The whole site has been revamped with a goal toward
So Ed and I have started the new year right by taking a trip. We’re in Washington, DC for the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. (These dudes have been getting together for a long time.) Here’s the fun part: we’re showing off a cool new eBook that SAS
Last year, during the International Year of Statistics, I created a blog series called Ask the Statistician. Since we love celebrating statistics every day at SAS, we decided to continue the series through interviews at the Analytics 2013 conference. For this project, I ask statisticians from various industries about their use of statistics. Their answers
Twas the night before "big data," when all through the data center Not an IT supervisor was stirring, not even the help desk on-call. The servers where all humming along nicely in hopes Big data would soon be there. The business users were nestled all snug in their offices
John Taylor likes computer data the way he likes big trout: here, there or anywhere. Which is perfectly natural, considering he’s the data analyst in the Inland Fisheries Department at Texas Parks and Wildlife. Taylor describes his unspoiled enthusiasm for big data and big fish in this sendup of Dr. Seuss that
As the world gears up for the premiere of Iron Man 3, SAS employees are gearing up to find out whether they will get their 15 minutes of fame on the big screen and how much of our beautiful Executive Briefing Center (EBC) is portrayed in the movie. Folks in the
Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still
Linking business analytics to economic value is a hard problem. Despite all the smarts that get poured into models, it's hard to tie them to financial measures such as profitability. And, because of that, it's hard to justify investment in analytics. Need headcount? Sorry, try again. Need tools? Sorry, can't
I'm in what's a very foggy Chicago at the moment, counting down the hours to when we'll be kicking off our SAS pre-conference workshop at INFORMS. I'm very fortunate to be here this year, because I've always been a big believer in using optimization to drive returns. The greatest thing
