This site under reconstruction.
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…
In LinkedIn last week, BP had a posting of a puzzle: “What is unique about the following number? 8,549,176,320.” The responses I saw were giving answers to the puzzle. I looked at it and wondered: “I wonder if this puzzle is out on Google?” I googled the number and sure enough, it is out there….
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