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Huh, even The Economist says American profits are too high. Wow, that’s pretty damning. The world has taken note of the anger in American voters and I’m sure there are many articles about the causes. This magazine has noted that the various speculations of the cause range from rigged economy in favor of the elite…
I’ve been testing, testing, and testing the ACA reporting, trying to make sure the results are right. I had about 50% of the reports done with the hope that an assumption for the additional 40% would turn out to be right. For me, dates are always problematic. There are always unforeseen results that come out…
I’ve begun work on a new project which actually has two components: reconciliation and automated reporting. Last two weeks were focused on reconciliations and the first thing I did was to look at the data. Usually when I get new data and I want to understand what I’ve been given, I will play around with…
I read a post by Seth Godin about 2 weeks ago (his post is dated January 19, 2016) and it reminded me of back when I used to work at SAIC. He wrote about working on the urgent things that satisfies the short-term but does nothing for the important long-term. While he was really talking about…
I’ve started practicing with macros again for preparation for next year because I need to remain familiar with macro programming. And it’s just so amazing how FAST macros run. They are not foolproof though, because I think sometimes something is running in the background on my laptop and that something “jiggles” the macros, making errors pop up. So that’s…
After spending 4 or 5 weeks on developing ideas for a dashboard for an upcoming huge project, I finally have a rudimentary dashboard. With that experience behind me, here are some ideas of what to do when you are given a project to pull together something. 1. If you can, find out what the goal is. In my…
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