Mental Model Lately, I have been studying about “Mental Models” help us “lump” complex ideas and details into handy nuggets of actionable information. Charlie Munger once said “… you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of […]
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In the early 1990’s, the Internet was in its civilian (non-university) infancy and the influx of ideas, people and technology created roadblocks to the growth of the Internet. There are many parallels today between Business Intelligence/ Analytics (BI/A) now and the Internet then. In the early 1990’s, some countries were well advanced in their implementation
A few years ago, I took a job as a team lead of a small group of DBA’s at a small pediatric hospital. I loved the opportunity that I was given and will be grateful for the person who gave me that chance. Prior to this gig, I had spent the past couple years consuming
Herding Tigers-A book review Read More »
Over my two decades of experience, I have seen many different things and experienced many different types of people and organizations. But in the world of analytics…I have noticed that most of my customers…most of my data consumers exhibit some sort of “learned helplessness”. This learned helplessness leads to employee disengagement which leads to poor
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I have said that my mission is to help you “Be Better At BI”. I use these Five Data Rights to help me accomplish this mission.
What are the Five Data Rights? Read More »
Several years ago, I was new to the healthcare space….I had spent some time in manufacturing and as a consultant and I had done some really cool stuff. In fact, I thought I knew my stuff! One thing that kept happening was that I seemed to be spending more time re-working things than developing new
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There is not such thing as a perfect tool…tableau makes some great visualizations…but it stinks at creating tabular reports (like excel) Power BI on the other hand has the ability to produce paginated reports. One of the cool things about being around as much as I have been is that I have gotten to work
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