Burtch Works, an executive recruitment agency specializing in big data and data science talent, recently released a couple of surveys that offer interesting insight into the data science job market, as well as the preferred modeling language/statistic tool for analytics professionals.
Today’s real take-away in getting value from big data analytics is the capability of making humans, not machines, smarter first. This may be heresy to proponents of big data analytics, but it’s time to re-think big data’s potential. Good insights from smart analytics are of scant value if there is an insight deficit in big judgment enablement.
Early in my career, I was working on a project team at a very large software company that had conducted a preliminary analysis of some newly captured data. Our executive sponsor “Chuck,” who was the company’s vice president of Operations, asked us to meet individually with a few key managers in one of the business units to discuss our initial results. More than a decade later, I still have a very vivid memory of one of those meetings.
In my last article, I mentioned that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) dodged the bullet but the attack would continue after the first incarnation of American Healthcare Act (AHCA) failed on the House floor.
The 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting will be held in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 22-25.
Since the first edition in 2011, the biennial INFORMS Healthcare Conference has quickly developed into the global leading conference in its field. This is further underlined by the decision of the INFORMS Health Applications Society to cross the ocean for the fourth edition, which will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on July 26-28.
The 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2016) will be held Dec. 3-6 in Las Vegas at the Red Rock Resort.
This installment comes from a discussion I’ve been having with longtime friend and U.S. Naval Academy classmate Cara Albright. Her problem revolves around determining the “most representative” year of precipitation (rain) data from a large set. The original question – how to incorporate data from years that include “leaps” (i.e., Feb. 29) – started us down an interesting path. This is a fun story about collaboration and thinking about problems.
Walking in large cities poses some risk to pedestrians. There are poorly designed intersections, mistimed lights and commuters in cars that are anxious to get to their destination.
In the last few articles I tried to put the spotlight on new developments in healthcare around the world. As we are getting closer to the end of 2019, I am energized to see positive movements in the healthcare analytics and health information technology space continuing worldwide. Let’s look at what is happening at home first.
