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Short post today – it’s running late now. I read earlier today about CFOs and big data: namely that CFOs oversee a lot of data and are in the prime spot to take advantage of this new buzzy business method. The article also said that just data alone is useless – one needs to add…
Everybody talks about big data and analytics, (my understanding is that they are related but not the same thing) but we have probably been doing some form of analytics all along. Analytics is just a snazzy term for analysis which has always been around since man has a brain. Big data is a term that…
This week I’m testing the budgeting file since we made some changes to it. There is definitely some level of discipline and method to it. At SAIC, the type of files I created were rather simple and did not require multiple entry points, so testing the files were easier to crosscheck. You basically tested the…
This post will be something different – it won’t be about Excel, math, data, programming or finance/accounting. It’s off the beaten path. Earlier in the week I saw a SlideShare about the hiring process. The author spoke about his experience with hiring and it was very uplifting. He has a different approach to hiring: for…
(This is terribly long and technical. While I tried to proofread this, parts of it may come off garbled. Writing technical stuff is actually difficult.) Earlier in the week I wrote a post that described some of the formulas that were created in order to convert a downloaded information into a flat file suitable for…
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