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Sometimes you have to read the minds of your customers. For the last few weeks I’ve been working with one of the managers on developing a snapshot report requested by the customer, except we can’t seem to know what they really want. They seem to change their minds each week. I’m not in the meetings…
For me, one of the hardest data format to handle is the date because it can come in many formats: text, date format, space, maybe a null space, zero or the word blank. It can come in different varieties that the IF, OR, and AND formulas can get complicated to handle the different formats. And…
The Economist had a special section on AI in the magazine last week. Over the last few years I’ve been tracking articles that discuss AI, what it could do, who is likely to be impacted and what we should do as far as skills upgrading. Since I have been doing readings for a couple of…
When a young child gets in serious trouble, he is sent to juvenile court and any youthful misdeeds are sealed to give him a chance to change his ways. But once he attains adulthood and if he continues to break the law, he forgoes the forgiveness and must pay his debt to society. And any…
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…
This is going to be a short little post on what I’ve been thinking rather than something on data, Excel, finance or otherwise. It comes about because I will be working on updating the ACA section, there is so much going on in the news, and I’m also trying to keep up with my drawing/painting….