Tag: statistical analysis

It Takes Courage to Compete on Analytics

Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” approach to developing and staffing a professional baseball team…

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The impact of the drug war in Mexico

For the last couple of years, Mexico has been in the midst…

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The Iceland Volcano Ash – A Great Way to Validate Business Analytics

Like many business travelers my flight home to the USA was delayed…

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R and the Next Big Thing

I've been traveling for the past few days (for the R/Finance 2010…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 7 Min Read

Web Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

In “Chapters from My Autobiography”, Mark Twain wrote, “There are lies, damned…

PhilSimon PhilSimon 5 Min Read

Saturday notes: The Frick and curve balls

Vermeer's 'Officer and Laughing Girl' Yesterday, after lunch in Midtown, I walked…

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Accenture study: Companies structured for gut-thinking, not analytics

An Accenture study released today has some grim news for the analytically-minded.…

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Side-by-side statistical analyses in R, SAS, SPSS

Have you ever needed to do a type of statistical analysis you…

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