UTEP Career Fair!
What? Career fair! When? Thursday & Friday Sept. 21-22, 2017! Where? Don Haskins Center! Why? So you can get paid! More than 100 employers will be on hand. Continue reading UTEP Career Fair!
State Space Modeling Notes
Go to the notes + code (preliminary and in progress) One of the joys of working in academia is the time available during summers to learn new tools. One of my projects this summer has been making notes for Petris et al’s Dynamic Linear Models in R text. This text is a Bayesian treatment of dynamic …
EP Electric Hiring
El Paso Electric is currently recruiting for 3 distinct Accountant positions (please see linked job ads). Financial Systems – MBA/MAcc preferred Energy Accounting – BBA + 0-3 years of experience Accounting Services – BBA + 3 or more years of experience Apply online through their website at https://www.epelectric.com/careers Please let me know if you wish to list me … Continue reading EP Electric Hiring
A solution for United
***Update*** It looks like United has now implemented a bidding strategy for allocating seats over capacity: United got in hot waters today for “overbooking” a flight and then forcibly removing an elderly passenger from his seat. Almost any casual observer would say that they probably should have just offered a higher voucher amount. Why wouldn’t United … Continue reading A solution for United
ADP Hiring
ADP hiring announcement, see below: Just to let you know, ADP wants to hire 15 of our graduating seniors. These jobs need to be filled right away, and interviews will be conducted on Friday (3/10/2017). These jobs are for all majors. Pamela Prieto Montoya has more info about signing up for the interviews: pprieto@utep.edu ADP also has more than … Continue reading ADP Hiring
Bass UTD Conference
Just returned from the Frank Bass FORMS Conference at UTD, one of the better marketing conferences in my opinion. Somewhat surprised to see the number of analytical papers and interest in analytical modeling in the field. There was almost a 50/50 split in analytical/empirical papers being presented. Learned quite a lot from both presenters and discussants. … Continue reading Bass UTD Conference
Turning bad news into marketing?
Just wanted to share this little bit of news out of an industry in which I’ve worked. Gambling profits in Macau (China’s Las Vegas) have been falling in recent years due to crack down on corruption. Though there’s been somewhat of a come back, it seems that the newly opened Parisian Macau casino, a Sands Property, … Continue reading Turning bad news into marketing?
Data Science Meetup in El Paso
I am looking to start a data science Meetup in El Paso. If you or your friends have interest in data analytics, big data, business intelligence, programming, digital marketing, etc. check out the Meetup group. The idea, hopefully, is to get both academic/UTEP affiliated people and local industry people to participate so that we can … Continue reading Data Science Meetup in El Paso
Automatic Neighborhood Detection
Data clustering is one of the most fundamental components of the machine learning toolkit. Many of these algorithms are easily implemented in Python, making it the go to language for data scientists when implementing canned routines. At the PyData conference last fall, I attended this talk by Leland McInnes & John Healy which introduced the HDBSCAN … Continue reading Automatic Neighborhood Detection
Revised and Better?
In the spirit of disseminating our latest edition of the manager response to online reviews paper, Alex and I have posted the current manuscript to SSRN for those who are interested. Let us know your thoughts via email. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2831402 Abstract: This manuscript investigates the externalities of managers’ responses (MR) to online reviews on popular travel … Continue reading Revised and Better?
Dr. Yang Wang 