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[divider]”May I go to class and then come back later to pay?”[/divider] The lines are getting longer and edging towards the doors, both computers appear to be down and our customers are getting snippy with my registration folks who in turn are starting to get edgy back. This is the second week of long…
Overseeing a large program that has over 100 projects? This situation is actually a great opportunity because with that many projects, there are a lot of data that you can dig into. The amount of data that these projects contain can be overwhelming but if you can reframe your thinking, they can be a potential source…
Finished reading the book The Talent Equation and it was more about findings from big data, specifically CareerBuilder’s big data than about how to use big data. The book was written by the CEO of CareerBuilder with the help of two others, so there is going to be a little bit of some promotion about…
I’m just starting to read a book The Talent Equation by Matt Ferguson, Lorin Hitt, and Prasanna Tambe. While I have only read the first chapter, it sounds very interesting, but so far, I’m not sure the book will talk about big data although the subtitle hints at it. But for my edification, I’m going to write…
Over the weekend the place where I worked was shut down due to partner dispute so I did not do my usual posting on Sunday. Now I’m going to make up today and maybe post more frequently until something else comes up, jobwise. Continuing on the topic of Kaiser Fung’s Numbersense book, I’m going to…
[one-half][/one-half][one-half last]Nate Silver is known for doing an amazing job of predicting outcomes of elections. Unfortunately, I can’t claim such distinction. But I have done a few forecasting while in the finance/project control departments and have had a few successes. The following is my favorite story. Back in 1998, I was working as a financial…
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