MattGauch (4/7/2016)

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Right on, Steve! Try finding your way around Interlocken in Broomfield: Interlocken Dr, Interlocken Crescent, Interlocken Way...It's enough to make you drive your car into a building lobby!...

Eric M Russell (4/7/2016)

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.. The tables in a JD Edwards system were coded with a short alpha sequence and then a 4 or 5 digit number. Always fun to remember...

tindog (3/22/2016)

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JesseBizInt (3/22/2016)

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I call myself an accidental dev because I ended up falling into a business intelligence role mainly through passion and not through any in-depth technical knowledge. Yes,...

I suppose it is within the realm of the conceivable. However it does nothing to reduce the culpability of management. Either they knew (v bad) or they...

The core of our factory manufacturing system is 18 years old (from a vendor) and it is being phased out next year and will run on a completely different data...

Data, visualizations, etc. as a field gained a lot of steam in the 70's when Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps was published -- it didn't get translated into English...

The dress code where I work is dress down everyday -- it's not uncommon to see shorts and sandals any day of the year.

When I read the editorial...

TomThomson (7/2/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/1/2015)

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ZZartin (7/1/2015)

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A math degree is not job training to be an accountant and a CS degree shouldn't be thought of as job training to...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/1/2015)

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venoym (7/1/2015)

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I think it needs to be said that there is a distinction to be made between what a university should be teach and what...

Mickey Stuewe (7/1/2015)

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Steve, I think this is a great discussion topic and it has always evoked a lot of passion for people, usually based on their own background.

I've worked...

There are a lot of elements to this topic. One is that universities in the u.s. have gradually acquired the role of teaching trades/crafts/skills with the explicit promise that...

Iwas Bornready (7/1/2015)

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nick.dale.burns (6/30/2015)

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I so strongly disagree with Steve and the authors of the post linked to and it is an argument I am passionate about. Specifically, I do not...

Another thought on this: Thinking Fast and Slow, written by Daniel Kahneman (who received the Nobel prize for economics for more or less 'inventing' the field of behavioral economics)...

I use stats and such intensively, though not so much in SQL Server. We're a manufacturing company and I've designed and built from the bottom up custom SPC (statistical...

Could be a very useful tool in the kit. BI, data visualization, big data analytics etc are very important 'next big things' (though I suppose they are no longer...