Everyone loves a good contest. At Predictive Analytics World 2012 (or #pawcon if you're on Twitter), Kaggle’s head of analytic solutions, Karthik Sethuraman spoke about “Crowdsourcing Predictive Analytics.” To date, around 30,000 data scientists have signed up on Kaggle to compete for cash prizes. Such competition pushes the edge of the
Direct competition with peers inhibits collaboration. At Predictive Analytics World (#pawcon on Twitter), one of my favorite people in the statistics field, Arnold Goodman of Collaborative Data Solutions, co-presented “Delivering Data-Driven Value Through a Collaboration Culture” with Stephanie Behnke, President of California General Underwriters Insurance. Arnie believes tribal cultures and
Business analytics is maturing – and so is its role in forward-thinking organizations. Once mainly used in traditional batch-type environments, it's now being embedded into real-time business decision operations and processes to create immediate and significant value. To learn more about how to operationalize business analytics, attend this brief webinar,
In the last week, I have interviewed four retail executives about their predictions for big data and high-performance analytics in the retail industry. I hope to publish their thoughts here in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, here are six concrete benefits that big data can bring to retailers, if
In my colleague Geoffrey Taylor’s recent blog post, he indicated there is a shortage of analytic talent, and our efforts working with the academic community suggest that indeed there is. Part of the mission of the SAS Global Academic Program is to facilitate the development of students with problem solving
Dance Card professor Mike DuMond gives an update of the NCAA Dance Card, discussing the tournament chances for the North Carolina State Wolfpack, currently a bubble team. If NC State wants to make the tourney, they have to beat the Miami Hurricanes. Wolfpack fans should be happy. The Pack beat
Once again NCAA men’s basketball is peaking – and so is talk of brackets and bubble-busters, bad calls and buzzer beaters, what-ifs and what the … happened? Dance Card Roundup Official Dance Card site SAS Dance Card blog series NCAA Tournament Meet the Professors Jay Coleman Bio Allan Lynch Bio
You know who knows a lot about high-performance analytics? SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. Listen to him explain it in this video about big data and high-performance:
