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 …
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SAS, SPSS, Stata Users: Learn R from Home June 17
Has learning R been driving you a bit crazy? If so, it may be that you’re “lost in translation.” On June 17 and 19, I’ll be teaching a webinar, R for SAS, SPSS and Stata Users. With each R concept, … Continue reading →
NOTE: Topic(s) For SAS Global Forum 2013 #sasgf13
It’s been relatively easy to predict the key topics for the last few years at SAS Global Forum: big data, mobile BI, and visual analytics. These have been industry themes, and SAS have invested a lot in Visual Analytics. They continue to invest heavily…
March Madness, Moneyball, and sports analytics
A big part of “winning” these days (be it sports or a business) is performing analytics better than your competition. This is demonstrated in awe-inspiring fashion in the book (and movie) “Moneyball.” And on that topic, I’d like to show you a f…
R’s 2012 Growth in Capability Exceeds SAS’ All Time Total
by Robert A. Muenchen I’m slowly gathering all the data needed to update my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. The section below is the latest installment. Growth in Capability The capability of all the software in this … Continue reading →
R Tackles Big Garbage
April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading →
What Analytic Software are People Discussing?
by Robert A. Muenchen How can we measure the popularity or market share of analytic software? One way is to see what people are discussing. I’m in the process of updating my annual article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. Below … Continue reading →
NOTE: Now I see Visual Analytics
I’ll confess that whilst there was a lot said about SAS Visual Analytics at this year’s SAS Global Forum, I came home with some confusion over its architecture, functionality and benefits. I was fortunate to spend some quality time with the software …