My long and occasionally-storied career began as an industrial engineer, where I had drilled into my brain one of my most useful life lessons. Here is the secret to mastering your life, reducing your stress by a good 50% — Learn the difference between standard hours and actual hours The business dictionary laughably defines a standard…
Several years ago, I was reassured once again that I had married the right person when The (much smaller then but equally) Spoiled One asked him, “What does the name of your book mean, God created the integers?” He explained that while one can have 1 rabbit or 2 rabbits You can have zero rabbits….
Last month, I was super-stoked to be listed in Forbes as one of the 40 women to watch over 40. As I’ve written on here several times, I call bullshit on the belief that start-ups must all be run by Mark Zuckerberg clones. The idea that everyone over 30 has outdated skills is based on…
After installing the latest version of SOD with Enterprise Guide 6.1 on Virtual Box and finding it really slow, I decided to re-install the operating system I had on bootcamp to upgrade to 64-bit and see if it ran better native. When I downloaded the file to install it said it was not compatible with…
Because it’s not tomorrow until I go to bed and get up again, as far as I’m concerned this is still technically the weekend so I am going to dispense Mama AnnMaria’s advice on personal relationships. … I blame the internet. My grandmother told me (more than once) that if your husband doesn’t beat you,…
There have been days, especially when I started my first two businesses, when I was seriously stressed. What if I could not make the payroll? What about cash flow when the business was growing and expenses were due now but customers didn’t pay until the end of the month? What if … for most small…
I’ve been working with SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1 with SAS On-Demand on Virtual Box and I can’t find much to complain about. It is slow, but since I’m usually doing 14 things at once, while I’m writing for a task to complete I can read an email, download a file or answer a phone call….
There was supposed to be a new SAS On-Demand in June so I put off downloading the latest version to prepare for my fall courses. When I went to download SAS Enterprise Guide, however, I saw that the upgrade had been postponed until July. Not sure what that will entail but since I had recently…
About a week ago, I went through pointing and clicking your way to a factor analysis. At the time, I suggested rotating the factors. Now we’re going to interpret the rotated factor pattern. Let me recap, briefly. Agresti and Finlay (p.532) put it way better than me when they said: Factor analysis is a multivariate…
Want to know the secret to getting better at almost anything? Measure it. Rambling story that only appears to be irrelevant …. For many years, I was on one committee or another that awarded funds to aspiring Olympic athletes. Often, my recommendations were at odds with the majority of the committee members, and if you…