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Robert AllisonOctober 1, 2015 6

Visualizing the 500 biggest corporations in the US

Every year, Fortune magazine compiles a list of the 500 largest US corporations - called the Fortune 500. Their list was a bit difficult to digest in text-form, so I thought I'd try using some maps & graphs on the data ... For a map analysis, I thought it would

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Analytics

Maggie MillerSeptember 30, 2015 7

Don’t ignore the next great analytic competitive advantage

This guest post was written by Andy Pulkstenis, Director of Advanced Analytics for State Farm Insurance. He leads a team of advanced analytics professionals providing statistical analysis and predictive modeling support for the enterprise across a variety of business units. His background includes more than a decade of experience improving

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 28, 2015 0

I'm a data guy, not a basketball fan!

I get several requests and recommendations for analyzing sports data. I'm not a big sports fan ... but when did I ever let that stop me! When I find interesting data, I like to graph it! Before we get into the nitty-gritty data analysis, here is a picture of my friend Jennifer's daughter

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 23, 2015 3

Are you a geography expert? Try this quick quiz!

My blog posts focus on visual data analysis, and many of them use geographical maps. Therefore I hope you will have fun with a quick geography quiz, which I created using SAS/Graph ... And what, you might

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 17, 2015 0

Talk Like a Pirate day ... and paddling from Cuba to the US

I just returned home from an expedition/adventure boat trip to Cuba, and Talk Like a Pirate day is coming up this Saturday - what a combination for an interesting blog! I hope you enjoy a few pictures, and a bit of data analysis on these topics! A couple of weeks ago,

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Emanuela SfercoSeptember 3, 2015 0

Analytics 2015 lands in Rome on Nov. 9-11

The digital disruption phenomenon is redrawing the market map. New players, products and services are gaining competitive advantage, while traditional business and revenue models are being questioned. Gartner believes that by 2020, thanks to the Internet of Things, information will be used to reinvent, digitalize or eliminate 80% of business

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Jeff ZeanahAugust 28, 2015 0

The one piece of advice everyone in analytics needs to hear

I was recently asked why I would recommend my new class, Explaining Analytics to Decision Makers: Insights to Action. The answer goes back to some great advice, a lunch of eggplant parmesan and in another more twisted way, to what was ironically affectionately known as the “bomb plant.” Early in

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 21, 2015 3

How is electricity generated in your state?

I recently saw an article on washingtonpost.com showing what methods are used to generate electricity in each state. The data was interesting enough that I decided to try my hand at graphing and mapping it with our SAS software. Read along to see what I kept the same, and what

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 18, 2015 3

What areas do venture capitalists invest in medical research?

The Wall Street Journal recently published a study of the top 17 medical areas (or body parts) that venture capitalist investments are likely to benefit. They used graphs to summarize the results, but "the graph guy" in me just couldn't resist trying to improve them. Did my improvements help? -

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Health Care

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 12, 2015 3

Hadoop releases - here's the timeline graph!

There's a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the

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