Fivethirtyeight blogger9/12/2023 ![]() ![]() He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. Iron Man 3 opens today at a theater near you. But at least several of my younger, richer, and better looking colleagues made the final cut. Unfortunately, I failed miserably on all three. You had to be well dressed and well groomed.There was even a casting call for SAS employees to serve as extras.ĭespite my multiple efforts, encouraged by someone who called himself "the casting director," it turned out you couldn't just earn a part the old fashioned way. In the movie, SAS serves as headquarters for Stark Industries, and last June we enjoyed a day of filming with Gwyneth, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, and the whole IM3 gang. Or, it might even be People magazine's most beautiful woman in the world, Gwyneth Paltrow, on the set of Iron Man 3. It might be Donald Wheeler, giant in the quality control field, Deming Medal winner, and author of one of my favorite books, Understanding Variation. It might be celebrity statistician (and New York Times FiveThirtyEight blogger) Nate Silver, of The Signal and the Noiseand election forecasting fame. When you work at headquarters of the leader in advanced analytics software, you never know who you'll encounter in the lobby. ![]()
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