Two tweets:
One blog post:
Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers
One job advertisement:
SAS Data Scientist ?(!)
A joke:
The biggest joke about data scientist is that the Google query “data scientis...
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1. The Pain I read from Lex Jansen (@LexJansen) that CDISC SDTM v1.3 and SDTMIG v3.1.3 were newly released. It’s pretty nice since CDISC SDTM was supposed to be released semiannually in the new publishing cycle. We can see the team put great efforts on this new version, but frankly speaking, this delivery...
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I remember when blogging was cool. Before the specializing and monetizing and Twitter-izing. —Peter Dewolf Well I think blogging is still cool (and awesome and awesome …). The most appealing personal reason is, blog posts are Google searchable and suitable for archive while Tweets NOT. Admittedly I hold some sort of Existentialism 2.0:...
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Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google, Facebook, eBay, LinkedLn all have strong presences in analytics. Besides such predominant companies, I’d also like to add Yahoo to the list although Yahoo is no longer in its peak. Yahoo is the largest...
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Decision trees are included in SAS Enterprise Miner(EM). The counterpart is SPSS Clementine, which should be called IBM SPSS Modeler for precision after IBM’s acquisition of SPSS.
Recently I read a paper on the comparisons of SAS EM, SPSS Clementine and IBM Intelligent Miner on their decision tree and cluster technology:
Decision Tree Induction & Clustering...
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Original post, 7 Jan, 2009
New York Times, Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power byAshlee Vance.
Key Point
The popularity of R at universities could threaten SAS Institute.
A Controversial Review by Anee Milley from SAS
We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get...
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