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• Are you thinking through system improvements after the Xmas Terror Attack?

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 117
  Information Technology in the federal enterprise does not work like it does in Hollywood.   Although there are plenty of success stories to go around, federal IT is more limited and constrained than we would all want, for lots of reasons. Some of the reasons are just do to complexities and limited budgets.  Some of ...
  2 days ago

• How to Effectively use Business Insight Reports

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 163
  Times Are Changing – The economic climate at present is about change: customer behaviour has changed, competitors have changed their pricing; and brand loyalty is being put aside for value instead. Today we find ourselves using a different set of marketing dynamics. In this article we describe how Business Insight ...
  6 days ago

• College Basketball: Rating Individual 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 485
  My last post presented a model for predicting 3FG% based on a player’s ability, age, and role in the offense. A comment by DSMok1 inspired the model I will present in this post. He writes: I was considering how best to create an “equalized” measure of 3pt and 2pt % for college players, based on the ...
  1 week ago

• Do Appliance Sales Signal the Start of Housing Uptick?

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 149
  Its funny how two people can look at the same data point and draw opposite conclusions. Sometimes, an inherent bias or wishful thinking comes into play; other times, its partisan ideology getting in the way. And in some instances, a little bit of common  sense goes a long way. Take as an example some recent data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data Analysis

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 488
  I spent a period with the Inquiry Team leader looking at the report card grades of my ninth graders. The only conclusion we arrived at so far is that the majority of my class is in the bottom third of the school and that most of these kids are taking general science instead of living environment. We discussed why some ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dissertation Comparative Analysis: Useful Guidelines on How to Make It

  
  Dissertation Writing Services Blog — Authority: 122
  Writing a dissertation is about demonstrating your deep knowledge, expertise, and some important skills. Analytical thinking is one of the main skills that every student should possess, especially the one working on a dissertation.   In this article, we want to talk about a dissertation comparative analysis ...
  2 weeks ago

• The (F)utility of GDP?

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 674
  Interesting argument here by Richard Posner on the (f)utility of GDP. Money shot: “But it is necessary to emphasize that it [GDP] is just a starting point. I disagree with economists who say the “recession” ended in the third quarter. The depression (as I think we should call it if only because of its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eureqa – Software to Replace Scientists

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 598
  The job of a scientist has its fun parts, and its not-so-fun parts. Making new discoveries, understanding the way things work, and experimenting with the natural world are all pretty cool ways to spend your day. Sifting through endless files of data looking for small correlations and insight…not so much. Which may ...
  2 weeks ago

• The King Report: No, Retail Sales Did Not Improve in November

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 149
  > ~~~ How can US beancounters report twice the expected retail sales when all private data and state tax data shows that November had tepid if not soft retail sales – even with the easy y/y comparisons? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009, AT 8:30 A.M. EST ADVANCE MONTHLY SALES FOR RETAIL AND ...
  3 weeks ago

• Initiate Systems seeks Sr Consultant

  
  GeekAustin.org — Authority: 125
  Initiate systems is growing and were hiring a Senior Consultant for our Implementation Team. Your responsibilities will include: Read the rest Implement Initiates Master Data Management software for Fortune 500, government, and large health care clients Develop and document technical, architectural, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• A cautionary tale: Where numbers come from

  
  Thoughts About K4D — Authority: 138
  Megan Carpentier posted on AirAmerica suggesting that the magic number 30 appears much more frequently than one would expect in reports of collateral damage of air strikes in Afghanistan. She attributes that to a rule that field commanders are required to obtain Washington permission for an air strike that would have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Help Needed

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 488
  I just checked the report cards of every student in my algebra class. Im supposed to check the data, right? I found out that every one who failed my class failed at least one other class and most failed between three classes and all their classes. Now that I know all this, I still am at a loss as to how to help ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Relationship Between Age, Usage, and 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 485
  In my last two posts I have taken a look at modeling a player’s 3FG% based on their age , and I’ve also estimated the relationship between usage and 3FG% . In this post I would like to bring these two topics together and estimate the relationship between age, usage, and 3FG%. The Data To put this data set ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Tradeoff Between Usage and 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 485
  My last post on the relationship between age and 3FG% , Brian Tung brought up a topic that I’ve wanted to look at: … I’m not even sure that history is necessarily a good guide here, as players shoot those treys under fairly different circumstances at different stages of their careers. Who’s to say that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Career Outlook for Business Intelligence (BI) or Data Warehousing (DW)

  
  IT Career Coach — Authority: 109
  Competing on Analytics Microsoft NET Developers are well compensated IT professionals because the workplace demand for skilled Microsoft .NET programmers outstrips the supply. On the other hand, being a Microsoft .NET programmer can be tough because of the constant pressure to keep up with new ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whoops! Japan Overstated GDP by 300%

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 149
  Wow, quite the cock up : The initial estimate of Japanese economic growth of 4.8% original was revised to 1.3%.  That is a revision that would do the US statisticians and record-keepers proud! Bloomberg “Japan’s economy expanded less than a third of the pace initially reported in the three months to September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Estimating the Impact of Aging on 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 485
  The impact of aging on player performance interests me, but I haven’t really done anything useful in this area. Baseball’s recent debate (really fantastic stuff) on the topic of player aging curves has motivated me to take a closer look at the affect of aging on 3pt shooting. Ed Küpfer’s three year old ...
  3 weeks ago

• What is a Z-Score?

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 444
  As one of the common indicators used to measure the stability of a business , the difference between the value of the company and the average value of companies of similar size and functioning as part of the same industry is measured by the z-score. Z-score is sometimes also referred to as a standard score, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Estimating Individual Impact on Defensive Efficiency

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 485
  Earlier this week in @johnschuhmann ’s excellent column The Numbers Game , John looks at how Andre Miller impacts defensive efficiency. This, along with @kpelton ’s note that “the Blazers have been more effective defensively when Joel Przybilla is playing than when Greg Oden is playing” ( from ...
  4 weeks ago

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