Thursday, October 31, 2013

The World Needs Data Scientists: Infographic

The need for data scientists is growing. The infographic below explores both the need for data scientists as well as the qualifications required for entry.

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Source:
The World Needs Data Scientists – Infographic (2013, October 17), BusinessIntelligence.com.

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Mandatory Reading for Business Intelligence (BI) Professionals

Every business intelligence (BI) professional on the planet should make BusinessIntelligence.com their home page. Follow the link below to learn more.


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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Well Said...

"The only power you have is the power of your decisions."

~ Paulo Coelho, "The Valkyries"

Paulo Coelho (1947- )

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Friday, October 18, 2013

The Tea Party's Pyrrhic Victory

According to Peter Coy of BloombergBusinessweek (2013, October 17):
In political terms, the Tea Party’s scorched earth strategy has produced some impressive legislative wins but damaged the movement’s popularity. Now its blunt tactics threaten to make deficit reduction seem like a fringe issue, one of concern only to extremists. The Greek king Pyrrhus, after whom Pyrrhic victories are named, once said, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined."
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Source: Coy, P (2013, October 17), The Tea Party's Pyrrhic Victory, BloombergBusinessweek.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

What is a Dependent Variable?

dependent variable
n
1. Mathematics A mathematical variable whose value is determined by the value assumed by an independent variable.

2. Statistics The observed variable in an experiment or study whose changes are determined by the presence or degree of one or more independent variables.


Source: The Free Dictionary

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What is an Independent Variable?

independent variable
n
1. Mathematics A variable whose value determines the value of other variables.

2. Statistics A manipulated variable in an experiment or study whose presence or degree determines the change in the dependent variable.


Source: The Free Dictionary

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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Well Said...

"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."

~ Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (1890-1970)

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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Well Said...

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

~ Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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Friday, October 04, 2013

Well Said...

"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"

~ Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (1890-1977)

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What is an Error?

error
n
1. An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
2. The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
3. The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
4. A mistake.
5. Mathematics The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.


Source: The Free Dictionary

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What is an Omission?

omission
n
1. The act or an instance of omitting.
2. The state of having been omitted.
3. Something omitted or neglected.


Source: The Free Dictionary

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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Increased Risk, or Not


Republished with kind permission of XKCD

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Well Said...

"For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East, and we achieved neither."

~ Condoleezza Rice

Hon Condoleezza Rice (1954- )

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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Well Said...

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

~ Thomas Sowell

Prof Thomas Sowell (1930- )

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