This was From a class I took well over a decade ago. I’m posting it here as a reminder to myself. Though the layers are interdependent, everything flows from the business one. Learn to navigate all three. Understand how the enterprise works and figure out where you can add value.
I have worked with Ruffalo Noel Levitz, Maguire Associates, and Hardwick Day (now EAB). They all follow a similar process. Start with the big picture Take 3-5 years of data and look at the numbers in the aggregate Calculate the highs and lows Do a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the most likely data ranges…
The census file and the bi-weekly interim files all have the same format. With this process, most of the time is spent ensuring that the data file is clean and properly configured. Below is a data dictionary of a sample file.
The first time I watched a large language model generate research output in forty seconds, I was not impressed by the quality. I was impressed by the volume, and by how quickly it could pivot when I changed the question. The results were plausible, competently organized, and largely superficial. What changed things was connecting to…
In my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
