Evan Stubbs

Solution Manager, Analytics - SAS ANZ

Feedback from the field: How our graduates are letting down the profession

With Ian Ayers, Malcolm Gladwell, and Thomas Davenport popularising analytics, it's not surprising to see an increased awareness of and desire for the power of statistics and modeling within the private and public sectors. Unfortunately, irrespective of the tools and techniques used, there exists a significant mismatch between the skills increasingly required by organisations and the abilities held by recent graduates. In this presentation, we look into why this is (with specific reference to a number of ANZ-based examples) and what must be done about it if an education in analytics is to remain relevant, useful, and robust.