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  • 86 – Summing It All Up

    86 – Summing It All Up

    Are you actually the sum of your experiences? (Kant.)  Is there actually a zero-sum game when it comes to social interactions and longevity around relationships? Is your life actually the sum of all your choices? (Camus.) Even Aristotle said something to the effect of, ‘character is the sum of repeated actions.’ What he actually said…

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  • 85 – Tracking my Weather Dashboard Activity Usage

    Homework Review How did you go with those polynomials from last week? Here is what I came up with. 4th degree =ARRAYFORMULA(LINEST(dataset1!D2:D351,dataset1!B2:B351^{1,2,3,4},1,1)) We are now estimating this equation in the form: Final Exam Score = e + d(Pre-test Score) + c(Pre-test Score)2 + b(Pre-test Score)3 + a(Pre-test Score)4 Where, For this purpose, it suggests that:a…

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  • 84 – How to Create Higher-Order Polynomial Regressions and Charts in Google Sheets

    In this previous post, I mentioned that I wanted to calculate the t-statistic and degrees of freedom for completeness sake, but for the case where I’m in the situation again needing to calculate them for another project. Although this post isn’t specifically about t-statistics or degrees of freedom, it is about the concept of documenting…

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  • 83 – Is Speeding Worth Your Time?

    I want to start with a thought activity. I’m not asking you for your responses in the comments section below, but I am asking you to genuinely consider these questions and even write down your answers as you go. First question: Do you know your hourly wage? If so, feel free to write it down…

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  • 82 – Applying Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) in Google Sheets

    Introduction Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design that assigns a cutoff or threshold above or below where an intervention is assigned. It’s used to estimate the causal effect of interventions by comparing those just above and below the cutoff. If you’re familiar with the concept of a regression, then there’s only a…

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  • 81 – Business Process Management Series: 4 Project Mapping (To-Be)

    This is the last instalment of the Business Process Management Series. The first in the series was an introduction to Business Process Management (BPM), outlining its principles, practices, and benefits. It illustrated how to map effective processes and improvements that can be made to efficiently organise businesses, increasing their strategic value. The second displayed some…

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  • 80 – Business Process Management Series: 3 WASTE Management

    This post is the third in the series of the Business Process Management (BPM). In the last one, we created the As-Is model for the process that was provided about the business. This week is about breaking that process down, rearranging, and updating it to make it more efficient for the business. When you utilise…

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  • 79 – One Year Anniversary at Work

    Goal setting, hey. It’s a hard thing to create, but even harder to play out and actually achieve what you had intended. I believe there are a multitude of reasons why people struggle with this, one of which being the fear of failure. (Here’s a talk by a personal hero of mine, Rodney Mullen, if…

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  • 78 – Goals for the New Year and Job

    I will delve into my reflection of the past year at my job in next week’s post, but this week is about looking forward. For today’s post, I want to outline what I’d like to achieve over this coming year. Well, really, I can keep this quite short — I plan and aim to be…

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