Data Science is a lot more than Predictive Modeling

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models — George Box

In the corporate world, Data Science is often loosely equated with Predictive Modeling. This is understandable for a…

Sports Is Your Perfect Introduction to Data Science

Animated data visualizations — do they help or hinder the user experience?

I’m going to start with two quotes. It’s not an apples to apples comparison, as the first study concentrates in chart transitions, i.e. from a scatterplot to a bar chart, while the second studies the…

11 Companies to Look at to Stay Ahead in the Data & Analytics Space

10 Themes Observed in Data & Analytics in 2017

2017 has come and gone. Looking back at the year, it was filled with promising…

Looking Forward at the Analytics Space in 2016

Predictions on who and what to look out for in…

5 Things Google Cloud Platform Didn’t Say Loud Enough at NEXT

Google has a great cloud, better or worse than other alternatives is a matter of great debate and perhaps a flamewar or two. One thing more people agree on is that Google is still figuring out how to best communicate about…

What Does The Data-Driven Utility Look Like?

I moved into the utility space after several years in the field as an energy engineer. The most rewarding part of having been in both worlds is trying to do everything I was doing before, except for 5 million customers at once. Ten years ago, that…

Looking forward at the Analytics Space in 2017

We’re 1.5 months into 2017 and I think I’m ready to predict what’s to come in…

Impressions From the 2017 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

The 10th Annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference recently wrapped up, and it couldn’t have come at a more interesting time of convergence of new analytics findings and proliferation of analysis tools. The panels with the…