I made an abrupt career change about ten years ago during the first dot-com recession, moving from a marketing role to working on credit card fraud detection projects. At the time I thought I was basically treading water – …
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Blog Comment Spam vs. Effective Marketing – Managing The Balance
Written in reaction to the early 2010’s trend of leaving blog comments to build links to a new website. This is generally considered an obsolete SEO technique but we include it for historical perspective.
Diving into R
Spent most of the past week working on my first “serious” R scripting project. I’ve been using R for a couple of years, generally as a free minitab replacement (using the R Commander GUI interface) …
Continue readingWhy Every Analyst Should Learn To Code
In recent years, I’ve seen a new breed of analyst emerge. Indeed, more than a few of my superiors have encouraged me to join their ranks. This new breed of analyst knows statistics and finance but prefers …
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