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Michael Bryan commented on Vincent Granville's blog post Don’t Let Data Science Become a Scam

"Well done Seth, Daniel. In particular, the decomposition of the mystical data scientist into component roles. For those who struggle with staffing advanced analytics, this helps immensely - the variety of personality in these roles will allow…"

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Michael Bryan liked Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei's blog post The E-Dimension: Why Machine Learning Doesn’t Work Well for Some Problems?

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Michael Bryan commented on William Vorhies's blog post Data Science is Changing and Data Scientists will Need to Change Too – Here’s Why and How

"Great article, Bill. Liked and Shared. For dialogue, though, I'll remain skeptical like Claude. Promises of a push button, self service world are eternal and never realized, for essentially human reasons. Platforms continue to…"

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Michael Bryan liked William Vorhies's blog post Data Science is Changing and Data Scientists will Need to Change Too – Here’s Why and How

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Profile Information

Short Bio: Data leadership roles at Capital One, Hilton, Nielsen, Sprint, Price Waterhouse. Degrees from University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown. Masters in Applied Statistics from Penn State.

Depth: Large and Big Data; Statistics; Data Warehousing; Data Architecture; Business Intelligence; Performance Measurement; Technology Strategy; Governance for Privacy, Security and Regulatory Compliance

Industries: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail, Hospitality, Big 4 Consulting, Research

My Web Site Or LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbbryan/

Professional Status: Executive Management

Years of Experience:: 25

Your Company:: Open Environments

Your Job Title:: Partner, Data Engineering & Advanced Analytics

Interests:: Other

What is your Favorite Data Mining or Analytical Website?: http://stats.stackexchange.com/

What Other Analytical Website do you Recommend?: http://www.openenvironments.com

Michael Bryan's Blog

Second Big Data Report from the White House

Posted on June 2, 2016 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like

In 2014, President Obama tasked John Podesta to lead a working group on Big Data. The first report provided a brief on data trends, with a focus on privacy concerns in particular Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values.. The second report was published in May 2016 …

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How did this miss the news? The NBD-PWG!

Posted on November 8, 2015 at 6:00am 1 Comment 1 Like

Early adopters know they’re gambling. The first versions of anything can prove to be an expensive science fair exhibit. The Big Data hype cycle has the confounding addition of open source. The parts are multiplying, overlapping and trumping each other. Add the change vectors for cloud computing and analytics to get an architectural risk storm.

Without a vocabulary, technology marketers thrive. The product…

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Look it up! Codes Associated with Public Data Sets

Posted on June 29, 2015 at 3:00pm 0 Comments 1 Like

Did you know?

A US territory (state code FM) became an independent country in 1986! Micronesia.
The island nation of Tuvalu has just 11K people, but it has the .TV domain
A jiffy is a real unit of measure at 1/10^th of a second.
If your doctor treats you for V95.43XS, it’s a followup after your spacecraft collision.
Sports centers are code 713940 except a bowling alley, that’s 713950.
Of 840 occupations, you…

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The Problem with Recommenders

Posted on January 14, 2015 at 8:08am 1 Comment 4 Likes

Eve recommended an apple to Adam, and they shared the first buyer’s remorse.

Water, Water Everywhere

Recommender systems select products for customers based on past experience. Sometimes the product choices are called “items” or “content”, and other nouns are substituted for the customer. The most familiar case is that of…

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