Have a conscious strategy to deal with table locking on the system tables. You are probably better off getting an inconsistent view of the data then holding up the server...

The traditional placement of news is first in a newsletter or newspaper. The placement of the editorial on the top of the newsletter makes some of use think that the...

Watson's speed will also likely to improve over time.

It will be fun to see if it is an effective way to chat with customer service.

My experience with tools that have to last a long time, and I've been compressing files for 20+ years is that open source projects offer substantial benefits for use when...

I have mailed the USB Drive to get log shipping started as well. Overnight shipping is about a 14 hour windows, and the local connections were substantially faster than the...

Every time I have tabular data for excel I'll post it to its own sheet. The cell reference =MAX(A:A) will then work on the column without calculation of the rows

charles.wong (5/13/2013)

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So the whole business should stop seeing crucial data that supports their daily decision-making, and wait for a data scientist to sanitise the data (however long it takes)?

The fact...

Remember that investment management is about risk, not return. In contemplating what opportunities to pursue you have to understand what the risks are you are taking, and then acknowledge whether...

This article has a nice list of tools for data visualization:

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-20-data-visualisation-tools

and the person I've follow the most is Edward Tufte, http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/[/url]

i enjoy his moderated forum: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1

My Mom's final bill from the personal care home was about $90 higher than I calculated in Excel. The home calculated the charges based on a 30 day month and...

since I support external systems, obtaining a baseline looks like it will be a cross department and multi-year effort. I'm also not the manager, so the resources I invest in...

It would be nice to have more familiarity with the tools to troubleshoot service broker issues.

Encouraging recording of the sessions and/or allowing for remote participation would be welcome.

A recommended practices document might be the way to start.

I would have clicked on a "like" button for this topic/post