I must admit, my Excel use has declined significantly since returning to school full-time. But, I still find plenty of uses - and, because they are not my routine office tasks, sometimes they are more …
The Great Bottle Deposit Financial Model
I have loved Seinfeld ever since college, when as an RA on duty I spent many a Southern Michigan weekend night watching the show with my fellow on-duty RAs. The Bottle Deposit held particular …
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Survey Says: Big Data, We Have Some Work to Do.
I recently read, per the tweeted recommendation of Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by …
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What The Story of Polaroid Taught Me About Innovation
It's been quiet on the blog -- I have been hard at work in graduate school. Fortunately, my program emphasizes topics like innovation and design thinking, ideas that are rife with …
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Lessons Learned at Wordcamp Kent
I spent this weekend at Wordcamp in beautiful Kent, Ohio. I really enjoy Wordcamps: the lessons learned, the cheery demeanors, and the motivation to keep growing the blog. After each Wordcamp I like …
R Explained for Excel Users: What is a Directory?
Like Excel, R can read in files and create new files based on your commands. R will assume these files will be read from and written to your directory. This is a common stumbling block for new R …
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