In my last post, I promised to lift the lid on British etiquette in time for your visit to the Analytics conference. Well, I’m going to be a bit more specific and focus my insight on London Etiquette, primarily, Greetings and Tube Etiquette. Greeting…
Affinity Diagrams for Problem Solving #sasgf13
I was pleased to be invited to present a paper on Visual Techniques for Problem Solving and Debugging at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) conference. I spoke about the importance of human interaction in solving complex issues; the process and peopl…
Forecast Update: Will 2014 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?
I recently updated my plots of the data analysis tools used in academia in my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. I repeat those here and update my previous forecast of data analysis software usage. Learning to use … Continue reading →
Florence Nightingale and the Analytics Conference
This year we’re holding the first of our Analytics Series conferences in London, right by Waterloo Station. Not too far from the hotel is the Florence Nightingale Museum. Most of us (at least in Britain) know her well from school as ‘the La…
Coalesce Missing Data to Highlight the Unknown
Missing data can be a pain. Having missing data and not knowing where it is can be even more of a pain. Here is a …
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Predictive Analytics in the 17th Century
I recently stumbled across the work of John Graunt, a London resident in the mid 17th century. Graunt used London’s Bills of Mortality to publish an insight into the causes and spread of the plague. Among other things, he was able to use the data to …