During the time since I started this series of posts on a little thing I knocked out one evening to illustrate long division, I’ve probably done a dozen other somewhat interesting pieces of code – I am sad that Java has co-opted the use of the word codelet because it is such a nice term for…
Life is not a junior high school dance. I get so tired of people who say they want to do something but won’t step up. I was going to use “women” in that last sentence but then I realized that some of the people who drive me craziest in this regard are men. Whether it is…
At one time, I avoided learning CSS because it seemed like that was a “woman thing” and in my career, I have noted that if you are in a primarily female field you get paid less money and people give you more shit than in predominantly female fields – thus, construction workers make more than…
I read an interesting post by Heidi Roizen with the title, “It’s different for girls.” Ms. Roizen is an admirable person. A successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and mother. (The latter is relevant as you’ll find if you read her post) This is a quote from her post: Wine was brought and toasts were made to…
NOTE: If you are looking for the rest of the long division program, the CSS and HTML, I will have that next week. I usually blog on technical stuff during the week and random rambling on the weekends. Someone sent me a message recently, “Hey annmaria I just went into business for myself about a…
Yesterday I posted the code to get the problem, now here is where we check it. As I said yesterday, may way of programming is to knock out something that works and then go back and make it work better, like a first draft for a journal article. So, this is my first draft. Keep…
You’d think it would be easy to find source code for a simple applet to demonstrate long division with a one-digit divisor and two-digit quotient. I wanted it to show the steps in long division, with the product for the first digit in the quotient shown, then that subtracted from the dividend, and the next…
We all know women who are achievers, who defy the stereotype that innovation is only for young men under 30, who dropped out of the right schools and live in the valley. This isn’t a middle school dance, ladies. You don’t have to wait to be asked. Nominate yourselves. Come on, nominate someone you know…
Yesterday, I wrote a little about beginning to analyze a data set from beta testing of our latest computer game, Spirit Lake. It will (I think) be one of a few data sets I use the first day of class. Why am I going to spend the first class on data quality? In 30 years of statistical…
Getting ready to teach a data mining course at the end of the year, I started looking through data sets I have on my desktop. Not sure what I will end up using. My first lesson, no matter what, is going to be on data quality. The very first thing I did was a series…