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Statistics vs Data Science vs BI
As someone who trained as a statistician, I've always struggled with that title. I love the rigor and insight that Statistics brings to data analysis, but let's face it: Statistics — the name — has always had a bit of a branding problem. Telling someone I was a statistician was more likely to conjure up images of me counting runs at a baseball (or cricket) game than pursuing serious science. And the image of what Statistics ideally is about — collaborative, interactive, applied, fun — was too often subsumed by the stereotype image — isolated, actuarial, ivory tower, report driven. (And hey, even actuaries can be fun sometimes.) That's why I'm a fan of the term "data scientist" — it embodies everything that Statistics always should be, without the baggage and tradition of the term "statistician".Statistics, statisticians, and data are all the rage in 2013 as we celebrate the International Year of Statistics ! Statisticians are often busy crunching numbers and modeling data, but we were lucky to enough to have Tyler Smith of National University and Jennifer Waller of Georgia Regents University chat with us at the SAS Global Forum about the importance of statistics in the health industry and business in general. Watch these videos to hear their thoughts on statistics: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
2013 is all about statistics! - SAS Voices
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Which Social Network Should You Use -- and When? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Want to make the most of the social web? It's more complicated than just posting status updates at random and seeing what sticks. When is Facebook most effective?Video Boosts Brand Engagement, Site Visits
Blog year 2010 in review
The blog year started in August and consists of 30-something posts. Here is a summary. Quant concepts Strategies A performance step beyond “Economists’ Hubris” points out that random portfolios are a more powerful method of performance measurement than the method that is suggested in the “Economists’ Hubris” paper (though that method is probably pretty good). The volatility puzzle solved?Box and Whisker Diagrams: The Microsoft Excel 2003 Solution Introduction See also pages two and three in this series for more up to date versions of this page: look at the menu on the left. The updated versions are also explained in fulll in Chapter Seven of my Excel Book: The Excel Project ... Kindle Version

