MPK Analytics – putting the R into analytics
Welcome to the blog of MPK Analytics – the consulting and training company whose mission it is to help clients in academia, industry and government to transform their data into insight using the power...
View ArticleMPK Analytics will attend, tweet and blog the Cyber Summit in Banff
MPK Analytics will be attending the Cybera Cyber Summit on October 1-3 at the Banff Centre in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. This event, with the tag line Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data is...
View ArticleStart your new relationship with data together with Roger Peng and 30000...
A week from today (on September 24) Coursera, an education technology company committed to making education freely available to any person who seeks it, is launching their online course “Computing for...
View Article2011 Census: comparing apples and oranges
Anyone following Canadian news could hardly have missed the release of the results from the 2011 national census by Statistics Canada this week. The findings of this census have been (and still are)...
View ArticleCyber Summit 2012: a bit of big data and a lot of small tweets
Last week (October 1-3) MPK Analytics attended the annual Cyber Summit in Banff. The theme for this year was; “Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data“. As might be expected when you bring together this...
View ArticleCyber Summit 2012: Big Data, Small Presentations and Rock and Roll
Last week Cyber Summit 2012: Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data took place in Banff (October 1-3). This annual event is a gathering of visionaries, executives, managers and awesome data scientist...
View ArticleEdmonton R User Group is going live
Edmonton has made a name for itself as the City of Champions, The Gateway to the North and the most northern city in North America with a population of over 1 million. Recently, however, Edmonton has...
View ArticleDid you know we have a newsletter?
Did you know we have a newsletter? We cannot blame you if you did not know since the first issue came out yesterday. You can find it here. Every quarter, we’ll bring you the latest news about data...
View ArticleHappy International Year of Statistics
2013 promises to be a great year for all statistics aficionado as today is the first day of the International Year of Statistics. More than 1400 organizations from 108 countries — professional...
View ArticleStatistics of the Day: Edmonton demographics
As part of the International Year of Statistics (aka Statistics2013) MPK Analytics is launching a weekly Statistics of the Day initiative. Every Friday during 2013 we will post a brief informational...
View ArticleStatistics of the Day: Bilingualism in Canada
Between 2006 and 2011, the number of persons who reported being able to conduct a conversation in both of Canada’s official languages increased by nearly 350,000 to 5.8 million. The bilingualism rate...
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