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Erik Gfesser

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Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 3

This post is the third in a series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section, a new position that I filled this past year after the membership development team realized that ongoing data analyses and reporting was needed around declining enrollment.

New Book Review: "Revenue and the CMO"

New book review for Revenue and the CMO: How Marketing Will Impact Revenue Through Big Data & Social Selling, by Glenn Gow, Crimson Marketing, 2013, reposted here: This book is all about how the Chief Marketing Officer, and those with similar roles, can bridge the gap between creating more sales

Personal Reading List: 1Q2014

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2014. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011. Common Errors in Statistics and How to

Current Print Subscriptions: 4Q2013

My subscriptions to print periodicals as of October, November, and December 2013. Update: * Discontinued Information Management * Discontinued Consulting * Restarted Wired after several segmented subscriptions since 1994 Computerworld * Information Technology magazine. * Weekly. Online version available here. The Economist * Business, political and literary newsweekly. * Weekly. Online version available here. IEEE Spectrum * Technology

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Gittin' Git

Gittin' Git (Raju Gandhi) November 10, 2013: 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM From the conference materials: Git, at it's core, leverages a relatively simple data structure to maintain history. In this session we will take a look at this data-structure, which in turn will give us

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Simulation Testing with Simulant

Simulation Testing with Simulant (Stuart Halloway) November 10, 2013: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM From the conference materials: Simulation allows a rigorous, scalable, and reproducible approach to testing. The separation of concerns, and the use of a versioned, time-aware database, give simulation great power. This talk will introduce simulation

New Book Review: "No Better Time"

New book review for No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, by Molly Knight Raskin, Da Capo Press, 2013, reposted here: The back cover description of this book as "a riveting personal and high-tech story, with a heartbreaking 9/11

Agile Wall Board Hacks: Heat Map

Early this year, I set up a traditional agile wall board for my last client project, and this post is a modified and expanded version of an internal post that I had written about this experience at my consulting firm employer, which I will likely modify once again for our

New Book Review: "Spring Batch in Action"

New book review for Spring Batch in Action, by Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Gary Gregory, and Olivier Bazoud, Manning Publications, 2011, reposted here: Probably one of the best written and edited technical texts ever compiled in the Java space. Well recommended for anyone looking to understand how Spring Batch can

Personal Reading List: 4Q2013

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2013. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Data Science for Business: What You Need