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How Culture, Data, and Skills Serve as Barometers for Organizational Data Science Preparedness

Click to learn more about author Steve MacLauchlan. I’ve had the good fortune over my career of working with many different organizations across many different industries. Often, I’ve been in an advisory role assisting organizations with getting a handle on their data assets and finding value in the insights those assets can provide. When data is […]

M.S. in Data Science Curriculum

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I’ve been blogging on Business Intelligence/Analytics/Data Science for 12 years. And I’ve been recruiting analytics candidates from top colleges for my consulting firms for even longer. Those who read my blogs know I’m pretty opinionated about what I look for in new grads, preferring students committed to […]

SAS, R, and Python for Analytics

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I did a short consulting gig last year with a company that was building an analytic app driven largely from a web-based data repository. The data were stored as a collection of SAS data sets which “customers” would subset by uploading SAS data step and proc SQL […]

What Is Structured Query Language (SQL)?

Structured Query Language, or SQL, is a programming nomenclature used to do set operations (like union, intersect, and minus) to organize and retrieve information in relational databases, based on “set theory and relational algebra.” According to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge, in any system that uses SQL, “data elements or attributes, categorized into […]