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Conferencing :: Why You Should Get Out There and Present
Back when I was an assistant professor of systems engineering, attending and presenting in conferences wasn’t just an assumption, it was an expectation. You were going to go present. You were going to publish. It was just a part of your professional growth. Now that I’m far more practitioner than academic, my supervisors tend to…
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People Moving :: Data Analytics and City Mobility
It’s been fascinating watching Amazon preparing Crystal City – ahem, National Landing – for it’s new HQ2 complex. Promising a workspace for 25,000 people, almost as many as work within the Pentagon itself, the company has a lot of work to do. And no, not just building a new building. Because when you bring 25,000…
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Terms of Reference :: What is Data Science?
Before I start delving too deeply into some of these topics and some of my ideas for using them to upgrade your human resources programs {among other things, but people analytics is my favorite subject}, I want to lay down some foundations and make sure we’re all talking about the same thing. This is also…
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Fitness Nerd :: Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
One of the things you’ll learn if you join me on any of my social media platforms is that I’m a runner. Okay, I’m not a runner, per se, but I run. I give absolutely zero damns that I’m not fast, that I will never set any records, and that I’m pretty unlikely to place…
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Understanding Data :: Or, Why I’m Writing This Blog
I like to write. It’s a hobby and a passion of mine. When I was a kid, I lost myself in my own fantasy novels. I published a supernatural suspense anthology under a pen name in my early twenties. I still, from time to time, add bits and pieces to a heist novel that has…