Teaching analytics with modern Excel
The other day in my research methods class we were discussing theory: what makes it believable or interesting, when to use math versus a more discursive approach, and so forth. Over the course of the …
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I've often joked that data science needs a new emphasis. We tend to over-emphasize the "data" half and forget the "science" half. The scale and scope of data is new, but science is not. Are we …
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Well, data is a bridge -- and it could lead to nowhere. This weekend I watched a BBC documentary called The Joy of Data. You can see it here, but I'm not sure for how long -- BBC does not post to …
It's that time of year. Students are graduating and entering the cold, scary world of business.My first inclination after graduating from a liberal arts college was to get the heck back to school -- …
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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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A topic of interest to me as a liberal arts grad is the similarity between good writing and good data work.Mark Twain famously said, "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long …
