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Bonini’s Boredom
Today I came across a fascinating concept called Bonini's Paradox -- the more complexities you add to a model to make it "realistic," the less useful it becomes.Take a map of your town, for example. …
Data Realism and the Missing Keystrokes
April is over, and so is Oz du Soleil's daily video blog. I am still enjoying these.Tonight I caught up on a look at Oz's Excel work environment.It's fascinating to see others' Excel work habits -- …
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Accounting: Shearing the flock vs finding the one lost
Become a sought-after analyst. Subscribe for your free ebook, "The Beginner's Guide to Getting Hired with Excel." Today I came across this study concluding that accountants don't have the technical …
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The New Economy: One Big Improv Class?
Oz du Soleil took another question from me for his daily vlog (Check out the first here.).What did he learn from improv classes at Second City in Chicago?I love this kind of material -- how the arts …
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Spreadsheet Thinking, or Bad Thinking?
I really enjoyed this piece by Robert Kosara on "spreadsheet thinking vs database thinking." Describing the former as "short and fat" and latter as "long and skinny," Robert documents why …
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