This site under reconstruction.
About two weeks ago I was talking to somebody at work about a database and reporting system that was set up in another part of the company. The goal was to merge our part of the company with this other part, especially in the data and reporting systems. This other part of the company is…
I appear to be going through a stretch where whatever I do, I’m not happy with: either it looks or works awful or just doesn’t plain work or it just takes too long. Any idea I have just doesn’t come like the way I imagine it. Anyway I still have to push on. I’m currently…
Lately I’ve been working on this reconciliation problem where I want the spreadsheet to highlight for me all potential problems with the data. A lot of the reconciliation deals with employee ids, social security numbers, dates and deductions. I want the spreadsheet to do the work for me since I actually do not have the…
This week, there has been a lot going on with Cambridge Analytica, a data mining/data analytics company that supposedly helped get Trump elected. In reading these articles, I wondered when does data analytics become illegal and privacy intrusion? There are some parts to this story that are obviously illegal: Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian American professor…
I uploaded the ACA 1095C forms for 2017 tax year and am now done. There were some changes to the electronic transfer but not much. I’m only going to discuss briefly the changes because I will be updating my ACA pages that can be accessed from the home pages. I’d give you the link but…
In the past week, there have been two interesting articles about bad data or manipulating data. The first one I read was about a “famous” Cornell food researcher whose 3 decade career is being called into question due to a batch of uncovered emails suggesting he and his research team were manipulating data to meet…