Teaching analytics with modern Excel
Being self-employed, I have a unique and constantly-evolving perspective of the employment market. A couple of recent potential projects lead me to believe there is a big lost opportunity in the …
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This is a preview of my course on networking for analysts. Learn more at georgejmount.com/networkingcourse. Many analysts leave networking out of their career growth. This may have worked in the past …
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Image from Gartner study If you're worried that your Excel skills may soon become obsolete, take comfort. A recent Gartner study positions Microsoft as an industry leader in BI and Analytics. I'm …
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When teaching in Poland one summer, my coworker received a t-shirt from a student which read:School is not like the pub... You do not have to go to school every day.I've got a lot of mileage from this …
I read Kevin Carey’s The End of College, a surprisingly controversial book. Carey lists the flaws of American higher education and predicts how "creative destruction" will upend it. These …
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This New Yorker piece brings up a worthy dilemma of our age. The focus of this story is on Keynes's prediction that future generations will have so much idle time that it may even be bad for society. …
