^—– Old advice-giving person This week I had the pleasure of speaking via WebEx with Rebecca Ottesen’s statistics class at California Polytechnic University (fondly known as Cal Poly by the folks at home). The students sent a number of questions in advance, many of which boiled down to how do you get started in consulting….
While all the cool kids are doing start-ups, I’m doing a “stay-in”. That is, I am staying in business after 28 years at it. Just in case you might be wondering, here is one of AnnMaria’s first rules of “stay-in” businesses. Not all work is created equal Not only that, but some of it is…
Not quite three weeks ago, I wrote about how to do a table analysis using SAS Enterprise Guide to answer the pressing question of whether men are more or less likely to marry women with more education. I was going to follow up with an explanation of how to get a weighted bar chart. Explanation of…
Every blogger gets those emails that begin , “We love your blog …: and end with ” …. over here at spam-a-lot, free-insurance-quotes, on-line college work at home for hundreds of dollars a day.com and …” I almost deleted this one until I read the rest that said … “We’re planning to feature it in…
Ever seen this? ERROR: YZR malfunction file BLAHBLAH.DATA trashed or YZR code bug Using Windows 7, I tried to open a SAS file created using SPSS 19 on my Mac and saved in Dropbox and got a brand new (to me) error. I thought perhaps it was Dropbox, because that was brand-new to me also. I…
My niece, Samantha, should be far more trusting at her tender age. She was skeptical – skeptical, I say! – that I once worked at a job where I got so bored that I started coding my SAS statements backwards, typing a semi-colon first and then working backwards, say to PROC . Non-naive nieces aside, it…
First of all, in response to the darling daughters (multiple) who told me this link wasn’t obvious enough, I will begin with EMOTICAMELS !!! Here is the link to sign up to the appsmitten newsletter. Click on it and sign-up CLICK Right Here next to the most annoying gif I could find. CLICK HERE !…
My mother-in-law suspects that her granddaughter is being raised with no adult supervision whatsoever. Her suspicions are correct. This year, The World’s Most Spoiled 14-year-old (she had a birthday this week) is learning physics. The rocket scientist has multiple degrees in physics. The stage would seem to be set for positive developments in science learning. Two…
Last week I mentioned a problem with scoring questions when each of dozens of true/ false questions had not been scored true or false (as one might think) or 1 or 0 (as one might think in mathematical terms) but, no, in some bizarre Alice in Wonderland mushroom-eating logic, each question was recorded as the…
Performance evaluations are nobody’s favorite experience, with the possible exception of a small population of masochists. However, I did enjoy one from a department chair who began, Unlike most new Ph.D. ‘s who believe that they are smarter than God, AnnMaria …. My assumption of less-than-omniscience began with my graduation from the University of Minnesota…