Category: Data Science
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Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive :: Breaking Down Data Analytics
As I make the rounds speaking to the leadership in my organization, many have concerns about the state of our analytic capability. I have heard many times that “we don’t have predictive capability.” When I’ve dug into this comment, I find that 1) it isn’t true, and 2) predictive capability isn’t what the speaker was…
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People Moving :: Data Analytics and City Mobility
It’s been fascinating watching Amazon preparing Crystal City – ahem, National Landing – for it’s new HQ2 complex. Promising a workspace for 25,000 people, almost as many as work within the Pentagon itself, the company has a lot of work to do. And no, not just building a new building. Because when you bring 25,000…
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Terms of Reference :: What is Data Science?
Before I start delving too deeply into some of these topics and some of my ideas for using them to upgrade your human resources programs {among other things, but people analytics is my favorite subject}, I want to lay down some foundations and make sure we’re all talking about the same thing. This is also…
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Understanding Data :: Or, Why I’m Writing This Blog
I like to write. It’s a hobby and a passion of mine. When I was a kid, I lost myself in my own fantasy novels. I published a supernatural suspense anthology under a pen name in my early twenties. I still, from time to time, add bits and pieces to a heist novel that has…