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Dr Jim Goodnight talks the business of analytics
Topic Started: Oct 20 2010, 03:55 PM (65 Views)
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CIO - CIO: What was the impetus for starting SAS?

Goodnight: SAS itself started at NC [North Carolina] State University. Tony Barr and I began work back in 1966, 1967. At the time I was putting myself through my masters in statistics, but I had been programming for about four years and the Department of Statistics was paying me to program software to help analyse all the data on campus. NC State is what's called a land-grant university; one university in every state receives money from the federal government to establish a college of agriculture and engineering. The mission of these universities is to improve crops, improve livestock, and that's where almost all the major breakthroughs in crop science come from. Every student they graduate, every PhD, has to come up with something new. The group that I worked for was in charge of helping design the experiments and I helped analyse all of the data.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9191898/Dr_Jim_Goodnight_talks_the_business_of_analytics?source=rss_applications
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