In 2011, the most recent year for which the statistical Web site Baby Name Wizard presents data, Marvin ranked 468th among boys' names, while Mona left the charts in the 1970s and hasn't been seen since.
In the context of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) a data wizard was developed to merge ISSP country data sets into one harmonized and integrated internal analysis file, by detecting and cleaning deviations versus a pre-defined standard template[ 13].The wizard, in a user friendly interface, addressed the technicalities of merging datasets from different sources.
But there was something shocking about the stark double identity of this posh "Old Etonian," as all the British papers call Nix, who presented himself as a big-data wizard at marketing events but proposed basic gangsterism to clients in private.
While "Big Data" is the buzzword of the day, and many companies are scrambling to hire these elusive and expensive data wizards, the word on the street is that they're in low supply.
Mehrdad Piroozram, an entrepreneur and partner at InsurTech.VC, says of his investment, "Sherpa has assembled a fantastic team of industry veterans, tech geeks, mathematicians, data wizards and marketing gurus — it's the best team we have seen in InsurTech".
For me, the most interesting aspect of Kaggle is that it is really an online marketplace, which just happens to be a marketplace that pairs data wizards with companies that have interesting data and want to become better at predictive marketing, pricing, or modeling.
Tucked away in the basement of the Governor's office at the Indiana Statehouse, a place where horses stabled 100 years ago, a team of big data wizards are saving lives.
For more than a year, a group of what the reporters described as "math geeks and data wizards" worked long days creating elaborate statistical models to determine which voters were likely to vote for the president.
But for the math geeks and data wizards who spent more than a year devising sophisticated models to predict which voters would back the president, Dixville Notch was a victory.
Statistics wizard Sall runs dynamic data visualization software division.
