Tag: Thomas H. Davenport

SAS Thought Leader declares war on data scientists on Valentine Eve

 

It all started because of the Google Guy, Hal Varian

Feb 25, 2009 – I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.  … Hal Varian, The McKinsey Quarterly, January 2009. …

Then these guys ( Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil)  made us sexy -that too in the Harvard Business Review.

Jill Dyche* is a thought leader. That’s what her job says. that too at SAS  which took over her start-up Baseline Consulting. (* In addition to this, she writes forewords for struggling poets here )

She says here–

If the importance of data scientists is growing with the advent of big data, the sooner we understand what exactly it is they do, the better.

That is fair enough. But to add grievous injury to data scientists, She adds

(For fun I wrote a blog post on being a data scientist’s girlfriend.)

Actually the blog post was-Why I Wouldn’t Have Sex with a Data Scientist

But there’s no use. The data scientist is preoccupied. Preoccupied with finding, accessing, analyzing, validating, cleansing, integrating, provisioning, modeling, verifying, and explaining data to his management, colleagues, end-users, and friends.

And this is the year of the statistician ??

This is bare knuckles tactics. The art of Vaseline Insulting? Perish the thought. Geeks and Data Scientists  rule.

Dont we? and we are perfect? right.

We statisticians (and data scientists and big dataists and data miners and business analysts and …)

are bringing sexy back!

Justin+Timberlake+JT+PNG+1(and we need a hug too.)

Eric Siegel’s Book

Message from Founder of Predictive Analytics Conference, Eric Siegel whom we have interviewed here –

To drive early orders for my about-to-launch book, “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die” (published by Wiley Feb 18), we’re providing this offer:

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“Exciting and engaging – reads like a thriller!”
– Marianna Dizik, Statistician, Google

In this rich, entertaining primer, former Columbia University professor and Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel reveals the power and perils of prediction.

“What Nate Silver did for poker and politics, this does for everything else. A broad, well-written book easily accessible to non-nerd readers.”

—David Leinweber, author, Nerds on Wall Street: & Math, Machines and Wired Markets

“This book is an operating manual for 21st century life. Drawing predictions from big data is at the heart of nearly everything, whether it’s in science, business, finance, sports, or politics. And Eric Siegel is the ideal guide.”

—Stephen Baker, author, The Numerati and Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything

With a foreword from Thomas H. Davenport, coauthor of Competing on Analytics.

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