TAO: The Analytics Officer

Today is the 7-year mark after my PhD defense. It happens to be the "Teachers' Day" in China, a holiday dedicated to the teachers. I just created a new label "9/10" to collect the posts published on this same date.

I'd like to announce a new blog on this special day, TAO: The Analytics Officer, a blog of data science for the current and future Chief Analytics Officers.

As you, my audience of this blog, are following me, I am following you too. I'm very happy to see that many of you have been promoted one or more times during the past five years. I'm sure that some of you are trying to get that promotion or climb up the career ladder. I started TAO to give you a hand by sharing some of my successful experience in helping others.

Where is My Dissertation?

I got my PhD with zero journal paper published or accepted. Since then, I have been wondering how many journal papers can eventually be published out of my dissertation. I think today, the end of the first five-year period, is a good time to check it out.

The list below maps the original chapters and sections to my papers:

• Ch1 Introduction  >>  (Hong, 2014)
• Ch2 Literature review  >>  (Hong and Fan, 2016)
• Sec4.1 Benchmark  >>  (Hong, Pinson and Fan, 2014)  >> (Hong, Wang and White, 2015)
• Sec4.2.2 MTLF/LTLF  >>  (Hong, Wilson and Xie, 2014)  >> (Xie, Hong and Stroud, 2015) & (Xie, Hong, Laing and Kang, 2015)
• Sec4.3.1 Recency effect  >>  (Wang, Liu and Hong, 2015)  >> (Liu, Nowotarski, Hong and Weron, 2015)
• Ch5 Possibilistic load forecasting  >>  (Wang and Hong, 2014)

The dissertation itself has been cited 41 times according to GoogleScholar. 

As I mentioned in the blog post (The Gap between Academic Research and Industry Needs) two years ago, the first two papers written from my dissertation materials were rejected by a journal in 2010. I got negative comments from 10 reviewers, of which most are nonsense. One of the reviewers loved to use the word "garbage" in the review comments. 

A couple of months ago, I got another rejection from the same journal. The similar garbage-style review comments showed up again. Shame on me - I should have stopped sending papers to this journal. Instead of yelling back to the editor-in-chief, I stayed calm this time and moved on, with the hope that the journal can clean up the garbage reviewers.

At least, the editor and editor-in-chief should do their homework: clean up the garbage comments before sending them out to the authors. 

Three Years after my PhD Defense: the Gap between Academic Research and Industry Needs

It has been three full years since I defended my dissertation. There has been a lot going on during these three years. I would like to put some of my random thoughts into a few blog posts starting from this one:

The Gap between Academic Research and Industry Needs.