Teaching analytics with modern Excel
"We need a checklist," my boss insisted. "So we don't miss any steps."So I made a checklist of how to pay out physician incentives. Dozens of steps. I tried implementing it across the hundreds of …
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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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Oz du Soleil has a new daily vlog series in August, "Excel Ignited." He'll start from the basics, diving into what Excel is for and how to think about data. In the last lesson, he discussed "What is …
Become a better analyst. Subscribe.I am passionate about education of all kinds.At my liberal arts college, I was in everything from the classics honorary to the orchestra to the political economy …
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The Future of the Professions by Daniel and Richard Susskind tackles what trends in artificial intelligence, data science, and labor economics mean to the professions -- careers which have remained …
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Great piece in the WSJ about the future of education, an industry that has remained stubbornly resistant to technology.I've written a bit about this -- what I call "Yellow Checker Syndrome" (posts …
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