In case you are wondering, yes, I am reusing the same graphic from last week, but this time to make a contrasting point. Last time, in “The Skeptical CFO” I was focused on the VARIABILITY in the data and the forecast. This week, however, we’re headed in the opposite direction,
Ed says the great jobs of tomorrow will be in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. There’s a strong demand for graduates in those fields. That’s why it is critically important for all of our young people to get a solid education in math and science. Kareem Dale,
Last year I was given an iPad. At the time I was rather ho-hum about my new toy, but my fourteen-year-old daughter was ecstatic about it. I now know why. Today, I am writing this blog post from my iPad and I am lost when I leave it at home.
"Nobody knows analytics the way SAS does," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight in my recent interview with him. He also explained the significance of being able to visualize and explore "big data." With visual analytics, you can cruise a billion records and just do graphs and plots one after the
Journalist and author David McCandless is a man with a passion: data visualization. Numbers have become so huge – in economics, business, statistics, science – that mere mortals just can’t get their heads round them. He illustrated that point today at The Premier Business Leadership Conference in his talk, "The
Remember the old Reese’s peanut butter cup advertisement? Two people are walking down the street – one eating peanut butter, the other chocolate – they run into each other and the chocolate and the peanut butter get mixed up. They sample the new concoction and marvel at the wonderful mixture
The SAS Social Media Analytics product launch was a huge hit with the press at SAS Global Forum. I wrote about it below, a lot of analysts and social media pros are blogging about it too, and it seemed for at least a few hours last Monday that everyone on
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
Saw an interesting Tweet (a post on Twitter) from investor and writer Paul Kedrosky today: "geeks only: five best data visualization projects of the year http://is.gd/cwIk" The link takes you to the FlowingData blog (created by a PhD statistics student in NY), and a post on some amazing examples of
Take a peak at the SAS BI Dashboard here, via the Enterprise Dashboard Spy. Or go to the JMP site to visualize the great new data visualization features in JMP. If you're a business user, watch this video. If you're a SAS expert and want to know how to integrate
