In Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet, the sycophantic Osric, who witnessed Hamlet’s “very palpable hit” during a fencing duel, forces Claudius to adopt another strategy to achieve his goal, Hamlet’s murder. I see this analogy playing out more and more frequently among the International oil companies (IOCs) and National oil companies
Professor Paul Goodwin from the Management School at the University of Bath in England was the keynote presenter at the A2009 Analytics Conference in Copenhagen. He revealed some interesting research that he and his colleagues observed about the way companies attempt to predict the future at various points in their
I was intrigued by Ken King’s recent post regarding North Carolina telecom executives supporting Dr. Goodnight’s call for education reform.In fact, it brought to mind an education customer we’ve been working with lately. The school is in a rural community that has implemented a 1:1 laptop initiative and is using
Like any good SAS employee, I monitor the social Web for conversations about analytics. Not that I’m an analytics geek – far from it. As a lifelong writer and marcomms veteran, the quants view me as about as comprehensible (and as substantial) as navel lint. It’s for precisely that reason
Cynthia Marshall, president of AT&T North Carolina introduced Dr. Goodnight to an audience of telecom executives at the North Carolina Telecommunications Industry Association’s 78th annual convention. AT&T has joined Dr. Goodnight in supporting his 1-to-1 computing initiative and Ms. Marshall asked the audience members to also join this worthy cause.
What is Peak Oil? In short, it is the moment in time that witnesses the maximum rate of sustainable oil production from a global perspective, after which there is a sudden and irreversible or terminal decline in oil exploitation. M. King Hubbert was the purported crazy guy who felt emboldened
With much talk both on a local and national level regarding the need to change our educational system, it is important to solicit feedback and ideas from all who have a stake in ensuring that our students receive a top-notch education that will prepare them for social, academic and economic
Four SAS employees received honors at the Joint Statistical Meetings held last week in Washington, D.C. The largest annual gathering of statisticians held in North America, JSM 2009 was held Aug. 1- 6 and brought together more than 6,400 statisticians for presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations, continuing education courses and
All content, that is! Do you remember the post from Shelley Sessoms about the topics that are especially high on our wish list for publishing through SAS Press? That post generated a lot of response and questions. It’s always so gratifying to see the SAS User Community spring into action
Big news in our industry this morning: IBM plans to buy analytics software vendor SPSS for $1.2 billion. In one sense, I'm sad to see SPSS disappearing into the large IBM stack. Besides SAS, SPSS was one of the last independent analytic software companies. A colleague says, “It’s the end
