The Data Whisperer: Norman Nie of Revolution Analytics

Norman Nie helped create SPSS, one of the first companies to take advantage of the massive amounts of data that computers enabled researchers and businesses to track. After almost 40 years at SPSS, which was later acquired by IBM, Nie re-focused his energy on academia. But in 2009 he was pulled out of his Ivory Tower by the challenge of building a business around the open source R language at Revolution Analytics. Now as CEO and chairman, Nie is evangelizing Revolution R as a modern replacement to SPSS, SAS and other older statistical analysis languages.

In this video, he talked about why we need to speak to our data and how that conversation can change the way we innovate and do business.

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