Teaching analytics with modern Excel
Should data analysts learn to code? This is a question "we" at the blog discuss quite often. In our estimation, the marginal benefit for the typical data analyst exceeds the marginal cost -- if …
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words... so how many does an animated graph get us? This morning I was working on a research proposal presentation. Essentially, the research aims to develop a …
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One of my favorite parts of learning is making connections between seemingly unrelated things.Here's one. Half of all enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems fail. Why? Often they do not account …
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One book that I keep coming back to is Tyler Cowen's Average is Over, which predicts the effects of the concentration of information technology at the hands of a few.While the information age …
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One of my courses this year is a seminar on information systems. Before each class, we each write a "conversation starter" incorporating our thoughts on the papers.A topic that has greatly interested …
As I mentioned in my last post, I am going back to school for a PhD at Case Western Reserve University. I predicted this would influence my blogging. Well, that didn't take long.My program in design …
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