Posted on January 25, 2016
On Key Performance Indicators
You’ve got a company, or an organization, or even just in everyday life, and you have goals: Â you want to grow, you want to learn, you want to educate. Â But how do you quantify those goals? Â From a… Read More
Posted on January 8, 2016
Base conversion in SQL
Here’s something silly I threw together that no one will probably use, which makes it perfect for posting here. We ran across software that has a table that has an Id that ALSO has a unique char(4) field… Read More
Posted on August 12, 2014
The Wild Blue Yonder
So today is my second day off after quitting my job!  I’m very excited about it… my most recent client was very interesting, and I think we accomplished some really cool things while I was there, but getting it… Read More
Posted on April 4, 2013
Two Years with the Heritage Health Prize
ED: I spoke to a reporter yesterday for a half hour or so, discussing the final stretch of the Heritage Health Prize data mining competition I’ve been a competitor in for the past couple of years. Her article… Read More
Posted on April 5, 2012
Datamining, Privacy, and Ethics
[I’m trying to write shorter blog posts these days — let’s see how that goes] There was a lot of chatter recently around about how Target (the shopping chain) has used data mining to identify pregnant shoppers in… Read More