My work mainly focused on generation of KPIs or on business process improvement. Creation and maintenance of KPIs built in Tableau and Excel. Majority of analysis in Excel was conducted with PowerQuery and/or PowerPivot. Tableau was my preference for visualizing the output of the analysis done in Excel and mixing in live data from sources …
https://public.tableau.com/profile/eric.a.stalee#!/vizhome/BLSUSEmploymentbyIndustry/Dashboard1 The Index of Employees by Industry shows an Industry’s relative growth in employees since the data origin of January 1st 1990. In this way the growth rates of individual sectors are made more graphically comparable. In other words, an index value of 600, represents that the amount of employees in that industry has grown …
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/30/azure_sql_delete/
Had a sick day…now unable to sleep after sleeping too much. At least I don’t feel too sick anymore. So I decided to try and get rid of some of my 38 open tabs in Chrome on my laptop (my phone has 100+, so that will take a while). While cleaning up I came across …
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-future-idUSKBN18Q23I One idea in the paper that did not involve any mutualization of debt was for a private bank to buy a portfolio of euro zone government bonds and issue its own bond backed by that portfolio. Such a Sovereign Bond Backed Security (SBBS) could have senior and junior tranches and provide a higher level …
“I have, therefore, chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth too rarely perceived. And that is the most important topic on earth: peace. Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never …
I think many people have the idea that violence committed by extremists of Islam (i.e., less than 1/10th of 1% of the population from that religion) is done because of one of the following reasons: It’s what Muslims have always done! (but never Christians or Buddhists…naturally) They are evil. (oh my god talk about oversimplification) They hate us …
So, one of my classes in Berlin consists mainly of creating a supply chain simulation loosely based upon a real company and then meeting whatever goals we set (goals which require you to use the software; Anylogistix). I say loosely based, because we don’t have a lot of factors, such as warehouse/factory maximum capacity etc. I …
I finally restored the mySQL databases from the raw files and put them into mariaDB for the new server installation (CentOS 7). That sounds a lot more complicated than it actually was. The way it sounded complicated may or may not have had something to do with me not restoring the databases until now, because …
Seems like a simple rule. Simply choose the option that makes the best use of capital (and is therefore the lowest ‘cost’). However, define cost. Define the time period costs are considered in. I think a common thought many decision makers have today, is that costs you can’t clearly see today/within the payback period are costs which …