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Causeway Solutions Welcomes Gera Carstenson

Causeway Solutions

CausewaySolutions, Welcome

April 15, 2021

Welcome, Gera Carstenson! Causeway Solutions is excited to announce the appointment of Gera Carstenson as our new Operations Coordinator. Prior to joining Causeway Solutions, Gera worked as the ... READ MORE

Better Together: Data, Analysis, and Application

Chris McNulty

Data, Analytics, Politics

April 13, 2021

Better Together: Data, Analysis, and Application I cut my teeth in politics working for the iconic Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett. The Chairman used to say, “If a candidate wins, they will say they ... READ MORE

Connect With Causeway: Thérèse Mulvey

Causeway Solutions

Marketing, Outreach, CausewaySolutions, ConnectWithCauseway

April 8, 2021

How long have you worked at Causeway? 9 months. What would you say you do here? All the things no one else wants to do plus marketing, strategy and a little bit of organization. What is your most ... READ MORE

COVID-19: The Great Trend Accelerator

William Fitzpatrick

Data, Analytics, Real Estate, COVID-19

April 6, 2021

COVID-19: The Great Trend Accelerator Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated many of the trends present in our society. Billionaires increased their collective net worth by more ... READ MORE

Connect With Causeway: Joel Cochran

Causeway Solutions

Marketing, Outreach, CausewaySolutions, ConnectWithCauseway

April 1, 2021

How long have you worked at Causeway? 1300 days, but who’s counting? What would you say you do here? I transport electrons from one place in the cloud to another. What is your most memorable ... READ MORE

Together Like Never Before: Harnessing the Power of Online Focus Groups

Molly Rutledge

Data, Analytics, Focus Groups, QualBoard

March 30, 2021

Together Like Never Before: Harnessing the Power of Online Focus Groups Quantitative data is our bread and butter here at Causeway Solutions, driving the bulk of our analyses and providing plenty of ... READ MORE

Connect With Causeway: Chris McNulty

Causeway Solutions

Marketing, Outreach, CausewaySolutions, ConnectWithCauseway

March 25, 2021

How long have you worked at Causeway? Since April of 2015. What would you say you do here? Point person on all things related to political clients and clientele. Work with those clients to discern ... READ MORE

Email Appends and Digital Onboarding

Madeleine Mattesky

Data, Analytics, Digital, Onboarding

March 23, 2021

Email Appends and Digital Onboarding At Causeway Solutions, we specialize in helping our clients get the most out of their data which oftentimes involves building on what they already have. For ... READ MORE

Connect With Causeway: Molly Rutledge

Causeway Solutions

Marketing, Outreach, CausewaySolutions, ConnectWithCauseway

March 18, 2021

How long have you worked at Causeway? It will be 6 years in May. What would you say you do here? I play with data. What is your most memorable experience at Causeway? The travel. Getting to discover ... READ MORE

Causeway Solutions Sports Fan Profile

Thérèse Mulvey

Data, Analytics, Survey

March 17, 2021

Causeway Solutions Sports Fan Profile Causeway Solutions conducted a survey to get a read on American consumers and their feelings about the favorite American pastime – SPORTS! The franchises ... READ MORE

Connect With Causeway: Bill Skelly

Causeway Solutions

Marketing, Outreach, CausewaySolutions, ConnectWithCauseway

March 12, 2021

How long have you worked at Causeway? Since Day 1! June of 2013… What would you say you do here? Sometimes I run the place… sometimes I’m an intern. What is your most memorable experience at ... READ MORE

Winning the Election: A Case Study

Hailey Russell

Data, Analytics, Case Study, Politics

March 2, 2021

Winning the Election: A Case Study Causeway Solutions was asked to assist our client with their bid for re-election by running a data-driven campaign. The client wanted a targeted campaign to ensure ... READ MORE

How the Movie Industry uses Data in Crazy Times Like These

Lauren Kornick

Data, Analytics, Marketing, Industry

February 19, 2021

Data and Entertainment, Unlikely Companions Data and entertainment are two words that audiences do not normally group together, but data is awesome, and data is everywhere! Data is behind all major ... READ MORE

Causation and Correlation: Men Who Shop At Big & Tall Stores Are More Likely To Get Knee Replacement Surgery

Tim Duer

Data, Analytics, Marketing, Outreach, Healthcare

January 19, 2021

Causation and Correlation: Men Who Shop At Big & Tall Stores Are More Likely To Get Knee Replacement Surgery At Causeway Solutions, our data has shown that men who shop at Big & Tall stores ... READ MORE

Data Is Awesome

Bill Skelly

Data, Analytics, Modeling

January 11, 2021

DATA IS AWESOME Please welcome Causeway Solutions’ Bill Skelly to our #StrategySession today where Majority Strategies CEO Brett Buerck asks…. Bill, a lot has been written of late regarding Google’s ... READ MORE

POLLING OR MODELING, WHICH DO YOU NEED

Molly Rutledge

Data, Analytics, Modeling, Polling

December 18, 2020

POLLING OR MODELING, WHICH DO YOU NEED? Polling and modeling are both important tools in the world of data-driven campaigns. While polling and modeling seem similar in nature, there are some key ... READ MORE

Bet On Prescriptive Analytics

Bill Skelly

Data, Analytics, Modeling

December 17, 2020

BET ON PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS Causeway Solutions’ Bill Skelly joins the Majority Strategies #StrategySession today in a discussion of prescriptive analytics. Businesses thrive on being able to make ... READ MORE

Patient acquisition in times of the incredible shrinking marketing budget

Tim Duer

Data, Analytics, Healthcare, Covid-10

July 12, 2020

As already slim health care marketing budgets are being cut even further, it is becoming more important than ever that health system marketing teams pivot to new strategies. In response to the ... READ MORE

Now more than ever: The need for a new approach to healthcare analytics in a post-COVID world

Tim Duer

Data, Analytics, Healthcare, Covid-10

June 30, 2020

The “new normal”. It is a term that has now become all too common in commercials, articles, and commentaries about our (attempted) emergence from COVID-19 restrictions, but what does it mean for ... READ MORE

A different world: Data analytics from a medical provider’s perspective

Tim Duer

Data, Analytics, Healthcare, COVID-19

February 10, 2020

I’ve been working with Causeway Solutions for about a year. My initial role was providing brainstorms for the melding of analytics and health, and now I work to incorporate medical epidemiology and ... READ MORE

AMONGST OUR OPTIONS … THE ANATOMY OF A DECISION.

Bill Skelly

Data, Consideration Scores, Prescriptive Analytics, Research

September 23, 2019

Sometimes it’s difficult to work at Causeway Solutions if you’re not well versed in Monty Python sketches. One of our favorites is the Spanish Inquisition and we believe it’s a great metaphor for ... READ MORE

HOW TO CREATE AN AZURE DATA LAKE LINKED SERVICE IN AZURE DATA FACTORY V2

Joel Cochran

Active Directory, ADF, ADLA, Azure, Data Factory, Data Lake, USQL

April 30, 2018

Here at Causeway, we’ve been working with Azure Data Lake (ADL) as our big data analytics solution for a while now. We store national-scale data from a variety of sources, and over time we have ... READ MORE

PASSING PARAMETERS TO U-SQL SCRIPTS FROM AZURE DATA FACTORY V2

Bill Skelly

USQL, ADF, Azure

March 7, 2018

Sometimes you write Part 2 of your documentation before you write Part 1. This is one of those times. We’ll post Part 1 – which is ACTUALLY CONFIGURING Data Factory to have the authority to execute ... READ MORE

SECURING AN AZURE VM WITH IP RESTRICTED FIREWALL

Bill Skelly

October 18, 2017

We recently came across a client who wished to secure some of their Azure VMs by white listing IP addresses. After clicking around, we decided to share what we found. This is a much easier task to ... READ MORE

ACCESSING AZURE SQL WITH SSMS USING AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

Joel Cochran

Active Directory, Azure, Mult Factor Authenitcation, SQL

September 11, 2017

Among its many features, Azure Active Directory (AAD) allows enterprise organizations to enforce Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) when accessing Azure and O365 resources. Previously it was not ... READ MORE

CAUSEWAY SOLUTIONS EXPANDS INTO WASHINGTON, D.C

Bill Skelly

August 22, 2017

Causeway Solutions has expanded its Washington D.C. presence with the opening of a new office in the nation’s capital and the addition of James Garcia as President of Public Affairs and ... READ MORE

THAT ESCALATED… REGISTER USQL ASSEMBLIES

Bill Skelly

Data, DataWarehouse, USQL

February 14, 2017

Well, we thought the next “chapter” of this USQL / Data Lake journey would be table query performance… but we quickly escalated from “hey let’s load this table from a small csv” to “WHERE DID THAT ... READ MORE

ACCIDENTAL BIG DATA (FOR REALS)

Bill Skelly

Data, DataWarehouse, USQL

February 8, 2017

If only we saw this data problem coming… In December of 2011, I remember reaching out to O’Reilly Publishing with an idea I had for a book. Essentially, I was staring down the barrel of an enormous ... READ MORE

ADLAUS AND PERFORMANCE

Bill Skelly

Data, DataWarehouse, USQL

February 8, 2017

As with all database technologies, performance comes down partially to how much horsepower you can throw at a problem. At some point we’ll have to deal with distribution, skew and partitioning of ... READ MORE