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Carlos Chávez Reyes ’19 holds an undergraduate degree in engineering statistics from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in his native Peru. He worked as an analyst and statistical consultant in academic and healthcare research before pursuing his MS in Analytics at NC State. During his time at the Institute, he served Continue reading 10 Minutes with Carlos Chávez Reyes
Now, more than ever, food is scarcer and harder to grow. Analytics plays a significant role in the creation of genetically modified crops that account for increasing populations, climate change, pests, and disease. Syngenta, a globally recognized agriculture company, specializes in healthy, sustainable crop production as conveyed by their website. Continue reading Analytics in Agriculture
As a physics student at the University of Lancaster in England, Elliott Bessell’s first taste of data analysis came in the form of a research project investigating the effects of solar wind on Saturn’s aurora. He worked for two years at an analytics consulting firm in the UK prior to Continue reading Ten Minutes with Elliott Bessell ’19
Tableau is most often used as a visualization tool, but it is also a powerful tool to build exponential smoothing models for time series data. If your data uses an exponential smoothing model for forecasting (more recent observations are given greater weight), and you want to have a quick drag-n-drop Continue reading Using Tableau to Build a Time Series Model