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It's still amazing what businesses are able to accomplish with summing, counting, percentage of total, % change period over period, average, median, min, max.
by lmg643 13y ago
It's still amazing what businesses are able to accomplish with summing, counting, percentage of total, % change period over period, average, median, min, max.
- dizzystar 13y agoIt's even more amazing how few businesses are able to compute those operations.
- VLM 13y agoAdd in bonuses based on those numbers and its amazing any consistency exists in their calculation. Basically in practice you're only allowed a consistent and analytically defensible system if no ones bonus depends on the process being obfuscated. This is why a lot of "big data" is oriented around generating new ideas and new numbers, rather than fixing existing systems and data...