Presentations on topics ranging from new takes on calculating readiness to methods for capturing and capitalizing on video and speech data.

In this post, three CANA team members, Lucia, Walt, and Jerome, discuss how they use meetups to learn, network, and give back to their commu

We recommended an innovative approach using natural language processing (NLP) for creating a Bill of Material (BOM).

Our expectation is that states with a larger number of enrollees should have lower costs than states with fewer enrollees because of economi

Using the SEAL Stack. SEAL is a technology stack that uses SQLite, Electron, Angular, and Loopback.

In the early stages of learning, every interaction with a new language can feel like a game of abstraction, as we try to translate back to o

How Are Data Scientists Framing the Problem? While popular browser extensions use crowdsourcing to classify sites that publish fabrications,

DO WORK THAT MATTERS. We offer two possibilities: First, work that is not interesting can be made interesting by being a test bed for a new

Over the past four years, a majority of the championship teams from the four major US sports were big users of analytics. So, to the casual observer, the answ...

Some IDEs are better for the Data Understanding and Data Preparation piece while some IDEs are better in the Modeling, Deployment and sharin

In this post, I'll go over one such method: using R programming to export the results of a Shiny analysis to Microsoft Excel.

How to print from your R Studio flexdashboard. There are various ways to extract information from flexdashboard, but no good way to programa

What do Analytics Professionals do? In 2017, the website Glassdoor.com ranked the following analytical career fields: Data Scientist #1, Data Engineer #3, an...

My daughter is quite into Harry Potter. She's read all the books, has all the T-shirts, knows many of the spells by heart. I am not so much into Harry Potter...

“This is the best talk I’ve attended in over a year.”- Harrison Schramm You may know Harrison Schramm from his “5 Minute Analyst” articles and blog posts, an...

Now that you have the plans, communicate them.  A plan will do no good if it is written, sits on a shelf and is never looked at

Purpose CANA Advisors took on a pro-bono project supporting the Blind and Visually Impaired Center of Monterey County, a not-for-profit organization serving...

The International Organization for Standards (ISO) was founded in 1947. The organization promotes worldwide propriety, industrial and commercial standards. [...

I recently read "The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom," recommended by my friend and colleague Scott Nestler. It is an interesting and well written guide ...

R Markdown I've gone a little bit off the 'deep end' when it comes to programming in R recently. I was turned on to Markdown a few months ago by a friend, bu...