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Sometimes simple is all you need. Last month I was asked to help out in automating an activity that was needlessly taking up time. Usually when people come to me, they think “program” but sometimes formulas or pivot tables will do the job just as well. In this instance, they needed to restructure some reporting…
A few weeks ago, I did a post “Playing with Data Query” on pulling in data from websites such as Wikipedia or government sites. I believe most sites give data in the form of tables. Wikipedia or the government site showing you the names of House of Representatives or Senators are good examples where you…
Or so the saying goes. For a couple of years, I’ve been asked to help create a program to automate the gathering of data from a different system and roll it into our current system and each time the effort got bogged down in the corporate blackhole. I always got stuck at the point where…
I thought since I’m on Thanksgiving holiday that I would go back to my climate files where I had gathered data from the web and see if I can update the data using the embedded data query. The one I was really interested in was the file pulling in temperature data history for each state…
Statistics like that just makes me angry. Last night I was up late reading Fast Company’s November 2019 magazine edition whose main title was “Capitalism Is Dead – Long Live Capitalism”. Of course, when I saw that at the bookstore, I immediately had to buy it. Upon reading the magazine, it was not about the…
Well, it looks like while we were sleeping, the robot revolution progressed on. Now, robots can: read, write, see, hear and understand, speak, smell, touch, move understand emotions, play games, debate, create, and read your mind. With the exception of the last item which is beyond humans’ ken, they cover pretty much most of the…
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