How Much Data is Generated Every Minute?
This infographic by Visual News gives a nice intro to Big Data. It’s not just limited to finance or scientific/medical research.
This infographic by Visual News gives a nice intro to Big Data. It’s not just limited to finance or scientific/medical research.
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…
I started using #RoamResearch on August 2, 2020 Here is my #RoamGraph as of September 2021. It’s a networked note-taking tool that I’ve used to create a personalized knowledge web. Some of the things I’ve funneled into it are: (a) academic research, (b) book summaries, (c) meeting minutes, (d) webinar notes, (e) journal entries, (f) website clippings, (g) instructions,…
Why create process flow diagrams? Because it helps to have an official way of doing things. It helps with the onboarding of new employees. Having documented process flows forces you to sit down with all the stakeholders and reexamine the routine and its assumptions. What processes are dependent on others?What processes can be run concurrently?…
Source: DegreeLibrary.org
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.