Why another blog?
I have, after all, a blog at dsanalytics.com which covers all sorts of issues about data mining, data management, multivariate statistical analysis, survey methodology, the problems of huge data sets, optimization and web data issues.
Well, there are a couple of reasons.
- Sometimes it is just easier to do things with Blogger - respond to other Blogger blogs for example
- And I realized that my dsanalytics.com blog did not sufficiently emphasise my Australian roots; I spent much of my early working life in Melbourne (where I built the widely respected Data Sciences Pty Ltd analytics company) and in Sydney , and there are some uniquely Australian issues about the availability of data and its applicability to the Australian scene.
It is not only Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data that is uniquely Australan, it is that our entire market is different in subtle ways from that of Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom or the United States.
And sometimes it is just better to be a local, to talk the same language as your clients, to appreciate intuitively the local cultural nuances and how they affect data and data analytics.
