More and more of my friends seem to be eating less and less meat, for various reasons (such as religious, health, social conscience, weight loss, personal preference, cost savings, etc). So I thought I would put together a graph to help them find alternate sources of protein. While searching for […]
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I am a data source, and so are you. It begins in the morning when we grab a cup of coffee at our local coffee shop and tap the screen of our tablet to browse the day’s headlines. Just in this simple routine, data can be used by companies to […]
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Rexer Analytics has released preliminary results showing the usage of various data science tools. I’ve added the results to my continuously-updated article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. For your convenience, the new section is repeated below. Surveys of Use One … Continue reading →
I remember being intrigued by the movie In Search of Noah’s Ark, when I was a kid back in the 1970s. They claimed to have definitively found the ark … but of course, since then several other people claim to have found it in other locations. Therefore I don’t feel too […]
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While holed up inside, like many others on the East Coast of the United States, suffering from record-breaking rainfall and watching the path of Hurricane Joaquin, I found a perfect metaphor for handling a problem in explaining analytics. Many executives bemoan the fact that it seems to take forever for […]
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I hear a lot of talk about income inequality in the US (“the rich get richer…” and such) – especially as elections approach. I also see a lot of graphs, and they all seem to define their numbers slightly differently. I’m not in a position to improve the way income […]
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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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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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