Blogs tagged nate silver

Gauthier Vasseur Vice President of Marketing Trufa | Trufa.net You have an impressive resume that includes positions within large corporations, national keynote speaking opportunities, experience as a university professor and the ability to speak... Read More »

Ninety of the top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list use SAS Business Analytics software to seek fresh business opportunities, take action in record time and get results. So it was big news when SAP announced its new partnership with SAS... Read More »

Experiments and focus groups are no substitute for the real world, statistician and best-selling author Nate Silver said during his keynote at SAP TechEd 2013 in Las Vegas last month. Google and Apple know it, and so does SAP. The latest SAP... Read More »

Last fall my teenage daughter fell in love with a thirty-something data geek. She constantly checked her smartphone for updates from him, gushing when the news was good and panicking when the trend line pointed down.   Did this... Read More »

This is my first post with SCN.  I am not an SAP user, I found myself in this ecosystem in 2009 when DataXstream LLC, an SAP Partner, needed marketing assistance.  But our focus is on finding value add for the client, both in our... Read More »

A little bit of big data goes a long way. “It is impressive, but also frightening, how quickly people are putting so much on the line on the basis of just the smallest snippet of data,” statistician and best-selling author Nate Silver... Read More »

Whoever said training can’t be fun never trained in Las Vegas. “The best training is almost always going to be hands-on,” big data-crunching statistician and best-selling author Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) said in the Harvard... Read More »

Analytics is where it’s at with this week’s Top 5 blog posts from SAP Business Trends. There are solutions for digging out from under almost any data avalanche, from helping a fashion designer choose which pieces to highlight to... Read More »

Numbers don’t lie. As it turns out, though, they do sometimes tell some very misleading stories. Take the polls leading up to the recent US election. Pundits on the left and right each accused various pollsters of bias (it’s only bias... Read More »