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Before I left on a retreat, I was playing around with Access and data model. Pivot tables have something called data model and I was playing around with it to see how it works. What I found was that it allows you to combine two tables, kind of like Access’ joining of tables and/or queries….
I have been away for a while: I’ve been running various errands and then I had to get ready for a business retreat. Now I’m spending time recovering from the retreat and trying to get caught up. The business retreat was nice because I got to meet face to face with some of the people I…
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…
Within the past week, another drug company has been found to be jacking up prices in a price gouging manner: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. It is headed up by an ex-McKinseyite – a former consultant, a group marginally better than hedge fund managers. The company’s strategy is to buy up pharmaceuticals instead of investing in R&D….
I’m reading at least 4 books right now, only one of which is fiction. My problem is I just don’t have time and there are so many interesting things to do. Anyway, I have mentioned Future Smart before in conjunction with the author’s envisioned future for money. But the author also talks about – surprise,…
This gets old – the company that is in or was just in bankruptcy keeps changing its books. Every month my boss does variance analysis against the budget that was created earlier in the year (and not forwarded to the sites that have to manage their money, go figure). I gather the data for her since…
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