This site under reconstruction.
Earlier this week, I read a blog by Paul Krugman on the inaugural of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website (or maybe the re-birthing of the site). The main point of the blog is that you can’t throw up the data and say “the data speaks for itself”. You need to do some analysis and indicate what the…
I’m still working on converting numbers from PDF files so I haven’t had a chance to write here or come up with decent accompanying pictures. I couldn’t convert from PDF straight to Excel; I had to do a roundabout method via converting first to Word and then copying and pasting from Word to Excel. This method…
Ever run across a situation where you download data and they don’t line up properly? Or your data is downloaded as a report with lots of empty white spaces to make your report look nice but is not convenient for data analysis? Or you have a PDF instead of nice data? Right now I’m helping…
Overseeing a large program that has over 100 projects? This situation is actually a great opportunity because with that many projects, there are a lot of data that you can dig into. The amount of data that these projects contain can be overwhelming but if you can reframe your thinking, they can be a potential source…
Finished reading the book The Talent Equation and it was more about findings from big data, specifically CareerBuilder’s big data than about how to use big data. The book was written by the CEO of CareerBuilder with the help of two others, so there is going to be a little bit of some promotion about…
I’m just starting to read a book The Talent Equation by Matt Ferguson, Lorin Hitt, and Prasanna Tambe. While I have only read the first chapter, it sounds very interesting, but so far, I’m not sure the book will talk about big data although the subtitle hints at it. But for my edification, I’m going to write…
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