This site under reconstruction.
I tried to do this post this morning but my machine wanted to do something else: either Apple was trying to push something or my security software wanted to do some updates. I can’t tell which was preventing me from doing anything, either going out to the Internet or shutting off my machine. So I…
I read an article in the New York Times, about a week or so ago, about how the rural areas saw a devastating collapse of job growth since the Great Recession (but I would almost think it began around 2000 when wages started flattening out). The author, Thomas Edsall, usually writes about psychological insights into people…
Two weeks ago, just before I got sick, I was working on the ACA reporting and was on the third attempt to use the new data. I believe my last post on the ACA was about how I needed to finish up the review of data, and the hope was that I would have about 80%…
My eyes are starting to swim from looking at rows upon rows upon rows of data. I’m working on that ACA reporting again this year, using my Excel spreadsheet to assign the code 1 and code 2 series, based upon hire/term dates and medical enrollment dates. Last year’s set of algorithms got me through about…
Sometimes, people just want to do things manually.There is a weekly report that I created almost 2 years ago that pulled in data via macro. It basically does the job for you in 5 minutes and all you have to do is review the numbers. Now. sometimes you have to fix some errors but those errors are…
This election was a perfect example of how data could lead you astray if you are not careful. Before the results of the election came in, all of the polls predicted Clinton had around 85% chance of winning. Well, the 15% chance that he would win happened. This was a black swan event, and I…
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