My 3 Words for 2015

Over the past few years I've joined this activity of choosing 3 words as a theme for the new year. Chris Brogan started this back in 2006, and here's his suggestion on how you can go about choosing your words: How to Choose Your Three Words Lots of people pick words...

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What Made My Trainee Cry?

On Episode 12 of Excel TV I said a little about a trainee who started crying as I was teaching her the details of her new job. This story comes up in conversations around the challenges of working with data. This particular challenge was a complete data...

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Bad Data, Ok Data

This week, Chris Penn's blogpost was about "When Bad Data Can Be Okay." I agree with everything he says about distinguishing between data that's predictably wrong and still useful just plain unreliable and not useful mysterious but you might be able to figure it out...

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