A famous business school case by Harvard Professor Michael Porter on forecasting chainsaw sales dramatically illustrated the limits of statistical models when common business sense and clear-eyed thinking are missing. In the chainsaw case, students were asked to forecast the future U.S. demand for chainsaws, a growing market, and assess the relative positions of differentContinue reading “Data Literacy – The Chainsaw Case”
Category Archives: Student Spotlight
AI Success, But Not Business Success
In their book, “Mining Your Own Business,” Jeff Deal and Gerhard Pilcher, COO and CEO of Elder Research respectively, describe what I’ll call “The Case of the Climbing Churn.” Churn is when a subscriber cancels or fails to renew a service or subscription. A successful predictive model for identifying likely churners was deployed for aContinue reading “AI Success, But Not Business Success”
Why Statisticians Like Odds
In your introductory statistics class, probability took center stage. Odds were for gamblers. But it turns out odds play an important role in statistics, too. The relationship between the two is simple. To estimate the probability that event “A” will happen, we divide the number of times A occurs by the number of all events,Continue reading “Why Statisticians Like Odds”
Student Spotlight – Thomas Karagiorgios
He spoke with Val Woodside, our Customer Success Specialist at Statistics.com about his experience in the certificate program. Tell us about your experience at Statistics.com? It was excellent. For me it was the first time that I studied through this online process. You have to study on your own and then you can send inContinue reading “Student Spotlight – Thomas Karagiorgios”
Student Spotlight – Staci Taylor
Student Spotlight: Suma Krishnaprasad
Meet Suma Krishnaprasad Data Scientist, Cleveland Clinic Suma Krishnaprasad was the first data scientist hired at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. She works to develop and deploy predictive models, and also to provide statistical design and analysis for dozens of clinical trials and other research projects. She came to the Institute for Statistics Education initially for aContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Suma Krishnaprasad”
Student Spotlight: Jessica Sproviero
Meet Jessica Sproviero,Assistant Vice President at Merrill Financial Services Jessica Sproviero has been working for several years in finance (asst. VP at Merrill Financial Services) while pursuing a degree at Thomas Edison State University (TESU). She entered the data science portion of the program (provided by the Institute for Statistics Education) in mid-2019 and completedContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Jessica Sproviero”
Student Spotlight: Angelina Salinas
Meet Angelina Salinas, Data Analyst at Almacenes SIMAN Angelina Salinas started working for the retail store Almacenes Siman as a purchasing planner and, a couple of years later, got interested in data science and started to learn R. Shortly afterwards, the business intelligence group at Almacenes Siman transformed into a business analytics group and theyContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Angelina Salinas”
Student Spotlight: Paul Olszlyn
Meet Paul Olszlyn, Senior Data Scientist at NovoDynamics Paul Olsztyn designs and implements databases at NovoDynamics, a company that creates and deploys large scale data systems for corporations. As his company responded to customer needs for more predictive analytics by building greater capacity in this area, Paul decided to move beyond his own IT andContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Paul Olszlyn”
Student Spotlight: Timothy Young
Meet Timothy Young, a Contract Administrator for the County of Los Angeles Timothy recently started the Data Science Analytics Bachelor’s Degree program that Statistics.com offers in conjunction with Thomas Edison State University (TESU) and has already been able to put his learning to work. At his job, using skills acquired at Statistics.com, he has implementedContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Timothy Young”
Student Spotlight: Peter Mulready
Peter Mulready is an independent consultant, who worked previously as a system architect at Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Peter got his degree in biology, but his focus shifted to managing and optimizing the use of data in drug discovery research. Specifically, he lead the information technology team responsible for managingContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Peter Mulready”
Student Spotlight: Barry Eggleston
Barry Eggleston is a health research statistician who has worked on both clinical trials and observational studies, and is currently with RTI in North Carolina. In his early career, his work was solely designing and analyzing clinical trials using typical biostatistics methods ranging from t-test to survival analysis and mixed models. After moving to RTIContinue reading “Student Spotlight: Barry Eggleston”