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“The value of universities to a capitalist society depends on their ability to resist capitalism, to carve out space for intellectual endeavors that don’t have obvious metrics or market value.” New York Times, “The Misguided Drive to Measure Learning Outcomes”, Molly Worthen, February 23, 2018 I was reading an article about learning and higher education…
The week before last week I had been going through a book on Excel simulations but then I got sick and work became busier, so I had to put the book aside. The last set of simulations that I had been going through were centered on statistics. In going through these simulations, there were some…
This week I had a request for help in designing a report for submission to owners. Previously, the managers have been pulling a bunch of reports and trying to manually produce the report, but on Thursday I got a cry for help. Understandably, they just got tired of doing it manually. And this request wasn’t…
Since Saturday I’ve been working on reviewing data for the ACA forms (healthcare reporting for employees) which I just completed today. The forms are now in the process of being printed and put into envelopes for mailing. As part of my review I was looking at the internal logic of timelines for each employee to…
Well, I’ve been sick the last few days. The first part of the week was focusing on the ACA data review and just when I was close to printing out forms, I came down sick. So this week I didn’t get any artwork done but I did do some self-education on Excel/statistics from a book….
I am time crunched right now as I am working on the ACA, so I will stick to some quick notes on a couple of things. How come I haven’t thought of this before? Two or three weeks ago, I was reviewing some numbers, especially looking for things such as “#N/A” or “#VALUE!” or “#DIV/0!”….