2021 Excellence Awards
We wanted to highlight four of our team members who recently were awarded the 2021 CANA Excellence Award for their significant efforts this
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Aaron Luprek
Jan 10, 20223 min read
Pitfalls With Using the data.table Package
An R mystery Someone recently sent out a message in our development team internal chatroom with the subject line "[s]ome bizarre R code...
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Koa Beam
Dec 17, 20214 min read
CANA Foundation Helps Young Explorers
Recently the CANA Foundation, CANA’s “give back” arm, helped the Johnstown Area Heritage Association (JAHA) and a group of teachers and...
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Kassie McRostie
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Welcome Our Newest Team Member, Chris Cichy!
Team CANA would like to welcome Chris Cichy, our new Principal Artificial Intelligence Analyst! “If everything goes right, we get a good...
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Cherish Joostberns
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Remembering Pearl Harbor
The White House Proclamation on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2021 reads, in part: "…we honor the patriots who perished,...
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Connor McLemore and Walt DeGrange
Dec 1, 20213 min read
2021 October INFORMS Annual Meeting and MORS AI Workshop
The fall of 2021 ushered in the return of in-person conferences and meetings. These events were the first of their kind since the spring...
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Cherish Joostberns
Nov 26, 20213 min read
Native American Heritage Day 2021
Native American history is a vibrant and essential part of American history. Although populations were present in North America as far...
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Kassie McRostie
Nov 11, 20212 min read
Veterans Day 2021: A Daughter of a Veterans Perspective
You have probably been asked the question, “who is your superhero?”, at least once in your lifetime. Well, for a daughter of a 30 year...
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Jack Murray
Oct 25, 20215 min read
Esports Monday minute
One of the analysis metrics we developed for the CANA R6 Showdown event this past April is being implemented in the esports industry...
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CANA
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Exciting Advancement for NavalX SoCal Tech Bridge!
14 October 2021 NavalX SoCal Tech Bridge and CANA Advisors is pleased to congratulate BEAM Global of San Diego on their recent sale of 21...
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Cherish Joostberns and Renee Carlucci
Sep 22, 20216 min read
Women in MORS: Effective Networking Strategies
During this past summer, the CANA Foundation, the “give back” arm of CANA Advisors, helped support a live, interactive panel at the 89th...
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Jerome Dixon
Sep 3, 20215 min read
How do Decision Makers Navigate through Chaos?
The legendary advance of the 20th Maine Regiment[i] "Do It - That's how" – Colonel (later Major General) Joshua Chamberlain Colonel...
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Kassie McRostie
Sep 3, 20214 min read
A Labor Day Retrospective: Becoming a CANAer
We all know how to find a job; we look, we learn, we apply. But even if and when successful, how do we find a career? Most Americans...
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Todd and Stephanie Allison
Sep 3, 20213 min read
A Summer on the Move & Working from the Road
As we think about the typical work week, we tend to imagine the same 8 am - 5 pm that our parents, grandparents, and those before them...
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Jerome Dixon
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Tips for Improving Workflow and Development time in Power BI
Here’s a quick tip I found – use a persistent spot windows server instance on AWS with OneDrive. This sped up my development time and...
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Connor McLemore
Aug 13, 20212 min read
The 89th Mors Symposium Recap
As a Principal Operations Research Analyst with CANA Advisors, I am always excited at the opportunities to participate in professional...
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Kassie McRostie
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Welcome Aboard Tamara and Dallas!
Team CANA would like to welcome Tamara Harvey, Data Science Fellow, and Dallas Bowers, esports Intern! Tamara Harvey “My mission in life...
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Jack Murray
Jul 8, 20217 min read
R6 Siege analysis: in for the win
Introduction As mentioned in my previous blog post, CANA’s Inaugural Esports Tournament Lessons Learned From The R6 Showdown, we hosted...
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Kassie McRostie
Jun 30, 20214 min read
Relational Database Best Practices
We live in a world of data. There’s even data about data, called metadata. And all this data needs to be stored in databases. Some...
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Kassie McRostie
Jun 25, 20215 min read
Have you had your “Oh git” moment yet?
Have you ever had that “Oh git” moment, you know, that time in a project where the deliverable is due to a client and something...
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