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Looking For Data Storytellers? – Course Studies
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You Might Need To Embrace Your Inner Nerd Role players, gamers, and even fantasy football fanatics are often tagged with the label geek or nerd. Now …
Compensation
Everyone Is Compensating – Course Studies
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More Than Just Risk — People Compensate For Comfort An article has been making the rounds. Ethan Bernstein and a Harvard study have revealed that …
Open Heart Surgery
Five Lessons in Data Analytics – Course Studies
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A few quick thoughts from a summer intern learning on the fly. When I started my summer internship at Corsairs I was hoping simply to earn some money …
Baltimore Orioles
Using The Analytic Process to Fix the Baltimore Orioles
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23–53. Last place in the AL East. Last place in the entirety of Major League Baseball. Their best player, Manny Machado, has a higher batting average …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Biology) – Course Studies
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Our Warped Sense Of Feedback Analytics and biology have long been interesting bed-fellows. There is a high level of complexity to almost any …
The F.B.I. May Not Understand… – Course Studies
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The Disconnect Between Accountability & Training The IG has spoken. Christopher Wray (FBI Director) has, too. This article is not a reaction to the …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Psychology) – Course Studies
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A Divergent Convergence Of Thinking Wrecking balls are pendulums, too. They swing on chains rather than rods and we call them balls rather than bobs …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Economics) – Course Studies
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This article has been substituted for its replacement… Economics has long been referred to as the “dismal science”. It isn’t exactly pop culture, …
Rise of the Data Illiterati – Course Studies
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Or maybe I am being too hard on Zuckerberg? After all, he spent a full day in front of a never ending stream of … stupid. That has to pull you down. …
Faceted Classification
Analyst’s Pendulum (Gemology) – Course Studies
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Cutting through the optics and the uncut data I can’t think of a science that is either farther from or closer to analytics. Therefore, it is hard to …
Power BI
What is DAX? A Three Minute Overview – Course Studies
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Data Analysis Expressions — Some Context and Iteration Have you heard of DAX? Of course, you have. It is only a matter of which one? Are you into …
Mathematics
Analyst’s Pendulum (Trigonometry) – Course Studies
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A Very Direct Concept Regarding Indirect Methodologies Geometry and its trigonometry subset are not often related with analytics outside of a few …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Reasoning) – Course Studies
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A Concept That Is Clearly Not Elementary, My Dear Watson Logic and analytics are fairly synonymous. Not completely, but close enough that bringing in …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Thinking) – Course Studies
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A Concept From Both Psychology & Biology Important To All Analysts Holistic and reductionist thinking are not immensely common terms around the …
Analyst’s Pendulum (Systems) – Course Studies
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A Concept From General Systems Theory That All Analysts Should Understand The field of analytics is, at-best, multidisciplinary. Often, it is simply …
Thoughts From A Very Long Career in Data Science & Analytics (DSA)
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A Common, Hopefully Entertaining & Educational Journey Sometimes it feels like I have been at this from the beginning. Only, unlike too many of my …
Calling All Gamers – Course Studies
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Well really… just the smartest ones Gaming is fun. And many gamers have a substantial amount of skill. Some gamers are actually Analysts by Nature. …
Real Analysts Know Where Their Data Comes From – Course Studies
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This is the final straw… well maybe… let’s ask a 9 year old… wait, what? The United States uses 500 Million straws every day! What an astounding …
Fake News
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Fake News A Course Study In True Accountability Let me start by noting that I don’t care how you feel about fake news. But, if you don’t care at all, …
Barrow, Alaska — Why Outliers & Anecdotes Create Poor Science
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Barrow, Alaska — Why Outliers & Anecdotes Create Poor Science And why it is time to move on already… On the Northern edge of the continent, sits the …
Bitcoin — Faster Than An Infographic – Course Studies
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Bitcoin — Faster Than An Infographic A Course Study In The Speed Of Analytics… And Cryptocurrencies Last week, I wrote an article on Understanding …
Understanding Bitcoin — A Course Study – Course Studies
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Understanding Bitcoin — A Course Study Framing The Questions And Collecting The Infographics Blockchain. Cryptocurrency. Asset Bubbles. What the hell …
Bots Suck At Content Marketing – Course Studies
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Or Do They? …No, They Suck… But Are They Bots? Is This Fake News? We read all the comments here at Corsair’s Publishing. We tend to clap for anyone …
Warning: Your Best Customers Are Apathetic – Course Studies
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But it is okay, odds are you are, too It is that time of year again. The coffee shop (Peet’s) is bustling even before 8am. It happens every …
A Song Of Fire And Ice – Course Studies
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Science’s Own Game Of Thrones Ice walls and dragons have little on the latest intrigue provided by NASA and other scientific studies. Westeros may …
The NFL Has Redefined The Model – Course Studies
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Data-Driven Decision-Making From The Athletic Field The old refrain “learn the plays" feels plenty antiquated these days around the NFL. A new …
Once Again A.I. Is Probably Not “The Answer” – Course Studies
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And the reasons remain the same… why artificial intelligence mirrors basketball… In 1996, Expert Systems and Neural Networks were all the buzz, but …
Anthem Protests
Mixed Messages — Lessons from the NFL – Course Studies
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Mixed Messages — Lessons from the NFL Why Feedback Matters Life, The Universe, and pretty much everything on TV is a giant feedback system. Recently, …
Action-Comedy
The Rundown — Lessons in Strategy – Course Studies
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The Rundown — Lessons in Strategy Action, Adventure, Comedy… Assessment, Analysis, Choice The Rundown opened in theatres in 2003. Since then, the Rock …