I heard a report on Marketplace yesterday about American's perceptions of being rich. This is being spurred by all the recent talk about "we're the 99%" and thinking about who really is that 1%. American Public Media partnered with Gallup to poll people asking them how much income you have to make to be considered rich and how much net worth you ( Read more... )

i love technology. admittedly, it’s not always intuitive. and when starting a new job, it’s never easy navigating through the various systems and people to get access to everything you need, but eventually you get there. and when things work, they really work. i find the level to which SAS is organized to be pretty amazing ( Read more... )

i went to a seminar today on exploring predictive analytics and data visualization, which is essentially corporate speak for (and the short form of), using data to simulate different decisions, predict outcomes, and display the outcomes effectively in a visual way so that the possible outcomes are easily and quickly understood. in order to really ( Read more... )