Teaching analytics with modern Excel
This week, with a little time off between semesters, I've been helping a family member with financial reporting & analysis for his business. It's been over a year since I worked in finance and …
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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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Louis Brandeis, writing about transparency, said that "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." You want to get to the bottom of things? Then measure, report, expose.Man does nothing to …
It's been about a month since the US presidential election, when Donald Trump was elected contrary to the prediction of nearly every poll.Since then, there's been lots of talk about "the death …
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I am becoming skeptical about the promises of Big Data.Surprised? So am I.The Big Data worldview tends to see information as a natural resource, like oil. It emerges from some chemical or physical …
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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 …
