Tag archive for ‘Life’
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Vlookup, Excel and social media.
Somebody is always doing a study on how much lost productivity is costing companies when people do something other than work at work. It used to be that the business intelligence companies were always going on about how much time people "wasted" using excel- now a days it's the huge cost of employees using social [...]
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Being led astray by numbers
Hindsight is oh so clear, but the recent (ongoing?) meltdown of the credit market still amazes me. There is a good article in Wired this month, talking about some of the math that led everyone astray. In the end, there is a lesson for data analysts in all this too; Do not believe the numbers [...]
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Ah the long rainy days of summer
Well, since I've been on a wet vacation, I'll do a quick post about the cottage. For me, Cottages are about many things, but one of them is certainly reading. Although I did read some brain candy - "Hilldiggers" by Neal Asher- which I enjoyed- among others. I also read a "work related" book -"Microsoft [...]
