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Big Data
Intel, Kaggle Use March Madness Contest to Teach About Big Data
I work very hard to get my MBA quantitative students to understand the relevance of the statistical underpinnings of data analytics. Since many of the students are very early in their MBA programs and some have not had basic statistics, my discussions of how Big Data Analytics will become very important to most businesses often …
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Refresh my skills
I have enrolled in a MOOC on Coursera, Duke University’s Data Analysis and Statistical Inference. I’m having to learn a new (to me) programming language, R, that is frequently used in data analysis. I had forgotten what learning a coding language was like. It’s fun and is allowing me to build some new synapses, of which I …
Whoops! I’m a gangsta – Big Data got me.
I clicked once too many times and did it: I linked myself to “gangsta” and I don’t know how to unlink. It all started innocently enough; I was reading my Twitter feed when I noticed one of my friends made an interesting tweet about the Sherman (think Seattle Seahawks v 49ers last Sunday) flap. The tweet pointed …
Why Study Statistics?
I teach graduate and undergraduate statistics (quantitative analysis) and I am often asked by business students struggling with the numbers “what am I really going to use this for in real life?” True it may be difficult at first to understand the relevance of pure number crunching using the binomial distribution or chi square. So …
Friendship Paradox?
I’ve been on Facebook since 2007 but have not been addicted to it until recently. That may be do to an “aging” effect that I intend to research. But I have been active enough to notice that my friends seem to have more friends that I do. And that my friends seem to do more …