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  • Conference Blogging INFORMS Analytics 2017

    calendar Apr 9, 2017 · 3 min read · data science conferences analytics operations research  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium A particularly good way to get a little more out of professional conferences is to blog about your experiences, I think. It makes you focus your thoughts on things like “what’s the big take-away here,” and “what should I be asking people in the hallways?” Rather than just …


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  • INFORMS Business Analytics 2014 Blog Posts

    calendar Aug 2, 2014 · 3 min read · analytics data science operations research  ·
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    Earlier this year, I attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research, in Boston. I was asked beforehand if I wanted to be a conference blogger, and for some reason I said I would. This meant I was able to publish posts on the conference’s WordPress web site, and was also obliged to do …


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  • Survey of Data Science / Analytics / Big Data / Applied Stats / Machine Learning etc. Practitioners

    calendar May 10, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics data science meta operations research R survey  ·
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    As I’ve discussed here before, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap, and perhaps most importantly, who are the people who work in these fields? Along with two other DC-area Data Scientists, …


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  • making meat shares more efficient with R and Symphony

    calendar May 9, 2011 · 9 min read · analytics csa operations research programming R  ·
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    In my previous post, I motivated a web application that would allow small-scale sustainable meat producers to sell directly to consumers using a meat share approach, using constrained optimization techniques to maximize utility for everyone involved. In this post, I’ll walk through some R code that I wrote to …


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  • making meat shares more efficient

    calendar May 9, 2011 · 6 min read · analytics csa food operations research  ·
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    A personal interest I have is the ethical and sustainable production of food. I’ve been a member of and helped run Community Supported Agriculture groups, and my wife and I currently purchase the majority of our meat from a group of upstate NY pastured-livestock producers who sell their products through CSAs. It’s an …


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  • On "Analytics" and related fields

    calendar Apr 15, 2011 · 6 min read · conferences data science job titles operations research statistics  ·
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    I recently attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, aka “INFORMS Analytics 2011”, conference in Chicago. This deserves a little bit of an explanation. INFORMS is the professional organization for Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS), which are terms describing …


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