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About two weeks ago I was working on a project where we had to analyze the budgets for 30 properties to make sure they were realistic and contained nothing unusual. This was very sudden and we had about a week to go through all of the files and make sense of the historical data as…
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about people solving hard problems such as saving the world, eliminating poverty, solving climate change. These are BIG, HAIRY problems that won’t be easily eradicated. Most of us don’t deal with stuff like this. But we all do work on hard problems, just on a smaller scale. Right now…
With 7 billion people in the world and with worldwide reach via the internet, you ought to be able to make a lot of money, right? With folks in the IT industry claiming they create new jobs to replace the old ones, I got to thinking about the quality of these new jobs. App developers…
Splash went the icy cold water all over his body. My boss was participating in the ALS Ice Bucket challenge that has been sweeping across the US. Not many business people do that kind of thing, but I happen to be lucky to be working for a company that has an emphasis on charitable activities and that does…
Short post today – it’s running late now. I read earlier today about CFOs and big data: namely that CFOs oversee a lot of data and are in the prime spot to take advantage of this new buzzy business method. The article also said that just data alone is useless – one needs to add…
Everybody talks about big data and analytics, (my understanding is that they are related but not the same thing) but we have probably been doing some form of analytics all along. Analytics is just a snazzy term for analysis which has always been around since man has a brain. Big data is a term that…
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