Data scientist

Analysis is not new

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…

Patience

We no longer have patience

In this age of instant gratification, we no longer have patience. We talk about efficiency and speed and at the same time talk about 10,000 hours and discipline. But I think the efficiency has won out because the number 2 item businesses focus on (number 1 being shareholder value) is efficiency. But sometimes you have…

Still Programming

Programming Test No. 2

They had trouble opening up the download files. I re-did the macro after finding that they had problems copying and pasting, especially pasting to the yellow cell. There were some merged cells issues caused by the OneSite download. So I had spent about a week re-working the program and ending up writing a macro to…

Average American

Six Years Later

The average American saw stagnant income during the 2000’s, if not earlier. Then came the housing crash around 2006/2007 followed by the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The fall precipitated the swoon of AIG and other banking entities, leading to a fear of economic collapse. Banks held out their hands looking for a bailout….