Reacting to the demand in the rapidly changing environment of an emergency department can be a major challenge. Frequent mismatches between patient need and the health care professionals available to provide that care can result in significant human an…
Tag: analytics
Using transparent colors in SAS Graphs
This graph certainly makes it clear! I can see right through your lies! Clearly, you know what you’re talking about! We need more transparency in our organization! What was that all about, you might ask?!? … I was just getting all the obvious puns ou…
What R Has Been Missing
While R has more methods than any other analytics software, it has been missing a crucial feature found in most other packages. SPSS Modeler had it first, way back when they still called it Clementine. Then SAS Institute realized how crucial … Continue reading →
Learn R and/or Data Management from Home October 7-11
If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in October. If you already know another analytics package, the workshop, Intro to R for SAS, SPSS … Continue reading →
Trends in the Analytics Job Market
Tracking the job market for statistics, analytics, data mining and the like used to be a major undertaking. However, on November 10, 2011 the world’s largest web site for job postings, Indeed.com, released a tool that allows you to examine trends … Continue reading →
Five myths about unstructured data and five good reasons you should be analyzing it
“How can we begin to make sense of the unstructured data, when we still don’t make the most of our structured data?” said the exasperated senior manager from a large retail firm. One of the great pleasures of my job is the relationship with stude…
NOTE: Animated Graphics, Courtesy of V9.4 SAS/GRAPH
There’s so much of interest in Rob Allison’s recent SAS Training Post blog article Create animations like Hans Rosling! that I don’t know where to start!
Rob’s reference relates to the subject of a 2010 post from me (originally highlighted by a twee…
SAS Dominates Analytics Job Market; R up 42%
I’m continuing to gather and analyze data to update The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. In this installment I cover the latest employment figures. Employment is important to us all, so what software skills are employers seeking? A thorough answer … Continue reading →