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I’ve been working a bit with Access the last few months because I’m working with a set of data that is huge. Huge as in I originally had to break up the problem into separate Excel spreadsheets in order to arrive at a smaller data set. Once I got Access, it cut that problem out…
Even a HR specialist can be a data scientist! Okay, I read an article in LinkedIn/Pulse about an HR specialist spending the past year working with data to see if he could see any trends. I’m sure most data scientists would take offense at the HR person calling himself a data scientist – it is…
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…
Last week I made some progress in delving into the numbers at work. I was trying to reconcile data between two systems and nothing was tying out. I knew there were some issues, but it couldn’t be that bad. I figured I was not looking at the information correctly. In order to get some kind…
Most of the time, when I do a download of data, the numbers all fall in nice orderly columns, and if I have to do multiple downloads, the data consistently fall into the same columns, from download to download. However, when I do a download from a software called OneSite, the numbers can shift from download…
Ahhh, I’m working with another one of those downloads where the data do not lie in nice columns. I want to be able to compare data between two different downloads to make sure that the data is migrated correctly from one software to another. I would like to make Excel do most of the comparison…
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