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Weight, wait don’t tell me
Trust takes a lot to build and almost nothing to lose In opaque systems small errors may be used as rationale to stop usage even if on balance the automation or model is still better than alternatives (even humans). I love voice to text transcript of phone messages, meetings and especially long talks like the…
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There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary solution.
Almost 2 years ago, in a hurry to get to daycare I grabbed a reflector band out of a bike junk box and strapped a bag to the seat to get out the door. I also have a $150 mountain man front rank I should install. At this point my temporary solution to carrying things…
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Unnecessary Measurements
A minor rant about my medical experiences as a data analyst My doctors measure my height and weight sometimes multiple times in the same day and routinely at least twice a week. While I understand they need to monitor KGs of body weight to correctly dose medication I have no idea why they think they…
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10 Rules of Highly Effective Pricing
10 Rules of Highly Effective Pricing Segmentation | Press & Seal | Crazy cat ladies I decided to try and go screen free at chemo yesterday so I brought along my signed copy of Danilo Zatta’s new book “10 Rules of Highly Effective Pricing”. The book frames the considerations of how to price well in…
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“This is NOT a list of hackathon ideas. It’s a list of items where companies are currently paying $$$.”
Lucy Park, Co-founder & CSO of Upstage OpenAI gets an enormous amount of capital, press and buzz for being first to market with the LLM. The question of how they will earn revenue anywhere in relation to their market cap is TBD. Lucy Park, Co-founder & CSO of Upstage a Korean AI firm, spoke yesterday…
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Blockbuster Perimeter Display
Prioritization problems When I was in high school I used to walk to the movie rental store, Blockbuster with my friends. We’d walk around the perimeter of the store and look for something new to watch. Back then there were mostly VHS and they charged extreme overdue fees. There were days when you’d walk in…
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“Data should be transformed as far upstream as possible and as far downstream as necessary”
Matthew Roche, 2021 Check out his awesome blog: BI Polar Thanks to Danil Z who brough this maxim to my attention a few months back on Linkedin. Its a succinct way of showing data maturity. Listening to Fundamentals of Data Engineering, by Joe Ries & Matt Housley, I keep coming back to the chapter on…
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Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most…
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and…
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Who is a customer? | CO-CUST-LOC
Sometimes the most basic definitions represent a huge amount of complexity in business analytics. I worked for an industrial laundry company that had +60 AS400 systems, one at each of our production facilities whose data compiled into a central data warehouse for reporting. The customer master data was setup by the office managers at each…
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