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Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 5

My last post in this series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section mentioned that I walked the Membership Development Chair through the visualizations of my latest monthly presentation to the team, partially in preparation for his request of me to

IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation

For anyone wondering about IEEE grade elevation to Senior Member, I received the following notification via email today after my elevation was approved following the application, recommendation, and review process: Dear Erik Gfesser, It is a great pleasure to congratulate you on your elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior

Personal Reading List: 3Q2014

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2014. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst, by Dean Abbott, Wiley, 2014. By invitation from Amazon. Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive

New Book Review: "A Culture of Purpose"

New book review for A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You, by Christoph Lueneburger, Jossey-Bass, 2014, reposted here: The content presented in this work, while centering on building cultures of purpose in organizations, also focuses on sustainability because Lueneburger has

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 4

This post is the fourth 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 in September 2012 after the membership development team realized that ongoing data analyses and reporting was needed around declining enrollment.

New Book Review: "Data Science for Business"

New book review for Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, O'Reilly Media, 2013, reposted here: As the authors discuss in the preface to this text, the content presented here provides a conceptual foundation

New Book Review: "The Purpose Economy"

New book review for The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World, by Aaron Hurst, Elevate, 2014, reposted here: The author believes that we as a society are in the early days of what he calls the "Purpose Economy", a

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of

Personal Reading List: 2Q2014

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2014. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011. Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles

New Book Review: "Customer Data Integration"

New book review for Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth (SAS Institute Inc), by Jil Dyche and Evan Levy, Wiley, 2006, reposted here: After discussing customer relationship management (CRM), master data management (MDM), and CDI, the authors discuss the challenges of data integration and the far-reaching