The year I turned 55, I wrote a series of blog posts on 55 things I’ve learned in 55 years. I’ve probably learned more than three things since, but one particular lesson has come back to me over and over the past few years. People are more than their accomplishments – sometimes for better and…
It ought to be easier than this and perhaps I could have found an easier way if I had more patience than the average ant or very young infant. However, I don’t. Here was the problem. I wanted control charts for two different variables, satisfaction with care, surveyed at discharge, and satisfaction with care 3…
Let me begin by acknowledging that anyone who can afford to fly to Trinidad and Tobago to learn more about the culture and ends up pitching a reality show is in the extreme of privileged and fortunate people on this planet. I also realize that anyone who travels as much as I do is bound…
Perhaps you have watched the Socrata videos on how to do data visualization with government data sets and it is still not working for you. Here is a step by step example of answering a simple question. Is the prevalence of alcohol use among youth higher in rural states than urban ones? You can…
I wouldn’t normally consider Excel for analysis, but there are four reasons I’ll be using it sometimes for the next class I’m teaching. First of all, we start out with some pretty basic statistics, I’m not even sure I’d call them statistics, and Excel is good for that kind of stuff. Second, Excel now has…
Working on some fun things using SAS Studio, so, expect a number of short posts over the next few days. Last time, I talked about the utilities and how easy it is to import an Excel file. Now let’s say maybe you are not aUnix person and you have no idea how exactly to code…
It’s been about a year since I last looked at SAS Studio much – OKAY, LISTEN UP PEOPLE In my previous life, I taught for years at a small liberal arts college, with under 2,000 students. I also taught at a tribal community college with less than 500 students. In neither of those situations did…
I have several ideas for blog posts I haven’t written. One is for this blog on simple statistics that answer useful questions. Three others are for my 7 Generation Games blog, on various features and functions in Javascript. I haven’t written any of them. Instead, I wrote an annual report that was due for one…
Well, it’s been a minute. In fact, it’s been over two weeks. I started this blog NINE YEARS AGO. That is pretty amazing. According to some guy named Patrick, who cited ‘research’ the average blog lasts only 100 days. Actually, when I backtracked this statistic, I came to an Atlantic article that said the average…
I’ve hardly blogged, answered emails or talked to anyone these past few months. We just received funding for two games and I have been working night and day, crisscrossing the country recording voices, demonstrating prototypes, contracting for art and animation, reviewing designs and fixing bugs. Ah, the bugs. We have arrived at the level of…