It’s that time of year again. The weather is cooling down and the buzz about the Analytics Conference is heating up. This year’s conference, taking place Oct. 21-22 in Orlando, will bring together more than 1,000 analytics professionals to learn the latest trends, technology and research in the field of
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A month ago, nearly 600 of us gathered on the south bank of the Thames in London for the first of this year's Analytics Conference series. So, in the spirit of data visualisation, I've compiled an 'infographic' giving a bird's eye of who came and from where. Social media is
Last week I awoke to an email saying that a respected friend and colleague in Belgium had had an injury and was not well enough to give his talks at the Analytics conference in London. "Can you hop a plane out here and cover six talks?" A trip to London?
How do analytics and Olympic training go together? Olympic gold medalist, Greg Searle, explained how analytics has changed his approach to training in our one-on-one interview. For more videos from the Analytics 2013 conference, check out our YouTube channel.
I had the opportunity to chat with Andy Diggelmann from SAS who explained how high performance analytics allows companies to innovate faster. He also talked about the benefits of attending the annual Analytics conference.
We have a lot of global partners here at SAS and I had the chance to interview several of them at Analytics 2013 in London. Here’s my conversation with Justin Jones from IBM who discusses the partnership with SAS and Grid Computing. I also talked to Alastair Forbes from
Analytics 2013 kicked off today in London and I had the opportunity to chat with economist and journalist, Tim Harford, right after his presentation on “How Not to Do Data Visualization.” Here’s the video from our conversation: You can watch live streaming of the conference on SAS Professionals.
You might have seen my previous blog, where I plotted some interesting tourist attractions on a geographical map of the British Isles (which may be of interest to Analytics 2013 Conference delegates)... Well this blog uses even more powerful analytics, and shows how SAS can calculate the "optimal tour" to visit all
Imagine millions of people tweeting about an event as big as the Super Bowl. How do you make sense of all that data without spending months reading them all? Mary Osborne, Dan Zaratsian and Justin Plumley have some answers in this video. Their paper Uncovering Patterns in Textual Data with
Are you going to Analytics 2013 in London?!? And if so, have you found any fun/interesting/touristy things to do while you're there? ... Being an analytics conference, I thought it would be good to apply some "analytics" to the task! So I took some locations in the British Isles that I thought