Class Cancelled

Due to the current weather conditions and major public transport issues, my classes today (Data & Databases for DA, and Advanced Databases) are cancelled.

The topics that we should have covered today will be covered during our timetabled class next week.

Regards
Brendan

SAS Server Update

I've received an email on Monday evening from SAS saying the following:

"Our system administrators have made changes to the hosted SAS Servers. Would you mind testing and letting me know if this has improved performance for you and your students?"


Can I you log into SAS OnDemand and test it using the lab notes.

Let me know if you notice and improvement in performance.

Thanks
Brendan

Statistics Class Back to Kevin St.

The Probability & Statistical Inference class on Tuesday 18th October will be back in room G028 in Kevin St. From now we will use both the labs in Aungier St and the lecture room in Kevin St depending on what content is being covered. Notice will be given on this blog and via email as early as possible.

New Data Mining Class

Due to the large number of MSc students who are taking the Data Mining class on a Monday evening, a additional class has been scheduled.

All full-time students must attend the new time slot. Any part-time students who can attend during the day should do so too.

The additional class will be on Thursday 10:00-13:00 in room KA-1-017 (computer lab on first floor of the annex building)

This new arrangement will commence week of 17th Oct.

Brendan

Judges Bans Bayes

An interesting story from the Guardian about the use of statistical evidence in court cases:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/02/formula-justice-bayes-theorem-miscarriage

Lack of understanding seems to be the key issue.

Like Bon Jovi

Analytics practitioners are like "Bon Jovi ... circa 1986"! I'm not surer we should all start growing mullets and wearing tight trousers just yet but there is some interesting info in the following article about the importance of analytics:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/09/26/data-scientists-are-rocking-the-big-data-world/