Missed Opportunities and The Power of...
Over the years I have done quite nicely for myself as the Founder of Analytical Solution, as everyone says, wish I had done it sooner. But every once in a while I reach out to other businesses in order to do something different or I see potential I could add by joining forces with them, unfortunately each time I have tried, I have been dismis [...]
Being a Data Scientist
Being a “Data Scientist” Is As Much About IT As It Is Analysis by Data Nerd, aka Carla Gentry
IBM defines the data scientist as -> A data scientist represents an evolution from the business or data analyst role. The formal training is similar, with a solid foundation typically in computer science and applications, modeling, statistics [...]
Top Data Ladies on Twitter – Fo...
Seems anyone can create a list of people to follow – unfortunately when I see list of Top Data people or Data Scientist, it’s always male dominated, not saying they don’t deserve it because they do, but there are many ladies out there that code their butts off and glean insight like a ROCK STAR. So, to correct this, I have c [...]
Data Science is NOT for everyone
Everywhere you look – a new program or University is teaching data science, while I think it is great for the field…… heads up people, data science is not new and creating a bunch of book smart data people without any business experience is NOT the answer. I started college in ‘93 with a group of math friends, 6 years later I graduated with a [...]
Push verses Pull – are you mark...
There have been a lot of articles over the years; going into great depth about “Push verses Pull Marketing” therefore I am not going to over kill the subject by regurgitating what has already been written. What I will add is that marketing has changed with the introduction of social media into our daily regimen, analysis and reporting. We try [...]
Big Data – reduced to a buzz wo...
A “buzz word”, that is what data has been reduced too. “Big Data” is now a common phrase used to describe numerous counts of different types of data, social media data, point of sale data, financial data, digital and visual data…. Arg, make it stop. But what is it “really” and what makes it useful versus noise?
Over the course of my career, [...]
Social Media ROI
60 years ago some thought TV commercials were a waste of time and money. Is history repeating itself with social media?
I know comparing commercials to social media is not apples to apples but its close enough for my purposes. Flash forward to 2011: with over 300 million Twitter users, it offers an even bigger audience than TV did back in the [...]
How do you become a data scientist?
I have read several articles on the subject, but none of the authors were really “Data Scientist” and they admit that, so I thought it was time that something was written by an actual Data Scientist.
First off, let’s make sure you understand that there’s lots of college involved, no way around that one. If you noticed [...]
More information doesn’t mean correct...
I had a gentleman tell me today that he read that companies were becoming more efficient, that more was being done by fewer employees. Wow, really, are we that naive? The truth is that 84% of employees polled said that they would leave their jobs if another position became available (CNN Money). Guess what employers, the economy is getti [...]
I am not a Social Media expert but I ...
I love that one liner from movies so I thought it appropriate for what I wanted to write this morning. There are lots of people out there playing Social Media experts, they promise followers, 1,000′s of them but how are they attaining them? Are they mining for followers from your niche or are they just searching for “follow-back&# [...]