Jobs in Analytics

January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Some job openings from WPS/Analytic Searches.com

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Please review WPS searches below and contact me if you would like to have a confidential conversation.

Full position descriptions at http://www.analyticsearches.com/wps-search-current-positions/ .

Submit resume/ questions to mary@analyticsearches.com.

All referrals are appreciated and earn you $1000.00 each when hired.
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Associate Analytics & Research/Connecticut
Bank Business Analyst/IL/To $95K
Bank Manager/Model Dev & Risk Mgt/IL/To $140K
Banking Risk Analyst/IL/To $100K
Credit Card Risk Analyst/ Illinois
Director, Analytics/Chicago/To $130K
Director of Analytics/NJ/To $140K
Quantitative Manager Advanced Analytics/DC/To $150K
Quantitative Modeler/DC/To $130K
Research Statistician/IL/To $110K
Senior Manager Data & Analytics/NY, IL/To $110K
Statistician/San Diego
VP Actuary Pricing/Connecticut
VP Digital Strategist/Chicago/To $150K
VP Enterprise Catastrophe Strategy and Reporting/CT
VP Strategy & Analytics/Chicago/To $150K

Submit resume or questions to mary@analyticsearches.com.

http://www.analyticsearches.com

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2011 in Review for DecisionStats

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Interviews in 2011-

9/12/2011 Dan Steinberg Founder, Salford Systems
8/26/2011 Eberhard Miethke and Dr Mamdouh Refaat Angoss
8/26/2011 Scott Gidley CTO and Founder , DataFlux
8/25/2011 Beth Schultz Editor in Chief, All Analytics.com
8/25/2011 Jaime Fitzgerald President-CEO, Fitzgerald Analytics
8/11/2011 Dr Ingo Mierswa and Dr Simon Fischer CEO -Founder and Head Rand D, Rapid Miner
7/29/2011 Mike Boyaraski Head Product Marketing, Jaspersoft
6/26/2011 Elissa Fink VP Tableau Software
6/14/2011 Gaurav Vohra Jigsaw Academy
5/27/2011 Rob La Gesse Chief Disruption Officer ,Rackspace Hosting.
5/24/2011 Sandro Saitta Data Mining Blog
2/21/2011 Anne Milley Senior Director JMP
2/11/2011 David Katz Senior Analyst , Dataspora

Lies , True Lies and Statistics.- Decisionstats crossed 300,000 reads in 2011. Includes all forms on syndication.

First Six Months-Wordpress.com Stats

Months and Years

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2011 10,238 9,868 11,402 11,629 11,726 993

 

Last Six Months- I moved to ZippyKid/ RackSpace from WordPress.com and so Stats are Google Analytics Based.

74,385 people visited this site.
85,098 Visits
74,385 Unique Visitors
185,163 Pageviews
2.18 Pages/Visit
00:01:23 Avg. Time on Site
26.90% Bounce Rate
87.30% % New Visits
87.07%New Visitor
74,092 Visits
12.92%Returning Visitor
10,995 Visits
0.01%Other11 Visits

Comments- once again I am overdoing SEO and not targeting sticky content enough! On the other hand SEO enables me to take 2 weeks off for vacation (in Goa ) with less than 10% dip in traffic :)

Newsletter Stats from Feedbliz-372 subscribers at EOY

From Google Feed -Webmaster Central

Feed Google subscribers Submit feed as Sitemap
161 Yes

 

Advertising-

Banner Ads-

Clients included- Predictive Analytics World Conference Series (Vendor Neutral Conferences), Rapid Miner (Open Source Enterprise Software for Business Analytics), JigSaw Academy (E-Learning for Analytics) and an occasional ad from CloudNumbers.com (Open Source Cloud Computing)

I am thankful and humbled by their support- they help me give gave content for free, pay server bills  to ZippyKid hosting (Rackspace) , WordPress Premium Themes and GetClicky software.

After August 16, I decided to test Adsense.

I love the confusion matrix for the AdSense ads, or maybe the content is too confusing .

Yes I am plotting to disrupt the internet advertising space! Wait in 2012 for Facebook and Micorsoft’s version of AdSense!!

65 AdSense Ads Clicked
202,575 AdSense Ads Viewed
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Announcing Jaspersoft 4.5

December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Message from  Jaspersoft

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Announcing Jaspersoft 4.5:
Powerful Analytics for All Your Data

This new release provides a single, easy-to-use environment designed with the non-technical user in mind — delivering insight to data stored in relational, OLAP, and Big Data environments.New in Jaspersoft 4.5

Broad and Deep Big Data Connectivity
Intuitive drag and drop web UI for performing reporting and analysis against Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, and many more.

Improved Ad Hoc Reporting and Analysis
Non-technical users can perform their own investigation.

Supercharged Analytic Performance
Enhanced push-down query processing and In-Memory Analysis engine improves response times for aggregation and summary queries.

Join us for an in-depth review and demo, showcasing the new features for self-service BI across any data source.

For more information on Jaspersoft 4.5, or any Jaspersoft solution, contact at sales@jaspersoft.com, or            415-348-2380      .

 

Download Jaspersoft 4.5 Today.

. Download your free 30 day evaluation trial now.

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Should you buy Zynga or Wait for the FB IPO

November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I am going to make a case for whether to buy or not buy  Zynga, and waiting to buy Facebook instead. Of course if Mark Pincus offers you a deep discount, and Mark Zuckenberg totally goes over the top with his P/E multiple, all bets would be re-valuated.

In the interest of your time, and my personal happiness, I am going to use a fairly standard way to measure attractiveness of both these companies- notably the Porter’s Five Forces Model. I will also review the recent experiences of Groupon and LinkedIn valuation to underscore what subtle differences in culture, and reputation of founders can affect the eventual value creation or destruction in an IPO.

(to be continued)

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Product Review – Revolution R 5.0

November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

So I got the email from Revolution R. Version 5.0 is ready for download, and unlike half hearted attempts by many software companies they make it easy for the academics and researchers to get their free copy. Free as in speech and free as in beer.

Some thoughts-

1) R ‘s memory problem is now an issue of marketing and branding. Revolution Analytics has definitely bridged this gap technically  beautifully and I quote from their documentation-

The primary advantage 64-bit architectures bring to R is an increase in the amount of memory available to a given R process.
The first benefit of that increase is an increase in the size of data objects you can create. For example, on most 32-bit versions of R, the largest data object you can create is roughly 3GB; attempts to create 4GB objects result in errors with the message “cannot allocate vector of length xxxx.”
On 64-bit versions of R, you can generally create larger data objects, up to R’s current hard limit of 231 􀀀 1 elements in a vector (about 2 billion elements). The functions memory.size and memory.limit help you manage the memory used byWindows versions of R.
In 64-bit Revolution R Enterprise, R sets the memory limit by default to the amount of physical RAM minus half a gigabyte, so that, for example, on a machine with 8GB of RAM, the default memory limit is 7.5GB:

2) The User Interface is best shown as below or at  https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1V_G7r0aBR3I5SktSOenhnhuqkHThne6fMxly_-4i8Ag&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

-(but I am still hoping for the GUI ,Revolution Analytics promised us for Christmas)

3) The partnership with Microsoft HPC is quite awesome given Microsoft’s track record in enterprise software penetration

but I am also interested in knowing more about the Oracle version of R and what it will do there.

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