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On Vacation

On Fridays I normally pull the best of my blog readings to share with readers. I’m taking a writing vacation this week. Check back next week for more great links from across the web!
The post On Vacation appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.

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Ten Additional Things You Didn’t Know About Me

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I’m taking a writing vacation this week.

Over the life of this blog, I have written two articles on the theme “10 Things You Don’t Know About Me.” I thought I would toss a third into the bucket.

The post Ten Additional Things You Didn’t Know About Me appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.


More great content can be found on the site at Simple Productivity Blog., or you can find me on Twitter (@SmplProdBlog) and Facebook (Facebook.com/SimpleProductivity).


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Open Loops 2/20/2015

On Fridays I pull the best of my blog readings to share with readers. Topics can come from anywhere, and cover anything.
This week I highlight articles on

not pushing yourself too hard; an analog task tracking/prioritization on the wall
how Bill Nye… Continue reading

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Open Loops 2/20/2015

On Fridays I pull the best of my blog readings to share with readers. Topics can come from anywhere, and cover anything.
This week I highlight articles on

not pushing yourself too hard; an analog task tracking/prioritization on the wall
how Bill Nye… Continue reading

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Last day to enroll in 50 ways to analyze data – Join us to become an awesome analyst

Hi friends & readers of Chandoo.org,

A quick announcement for you.

Only few hours left to 50 ways to analyze your data course …

50 Ways to analyze data - an online training program from Chandoo.org

As you may know, I have opened enrollments for our 50 ways to analyze data course few days ago. The aim of this course is to make you an awesome analyst. This course teaches 50 powerful, relevant, practical and insightful analysis techniques in example driven methodology.

We will be closing the doors of this program at midnight, today – 11:59 PM, Pacific time, Friday, 20th of February, 2015.

I want to invite you to this program because I want you to be an awesome analyst.

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CP030: Detecting fraud in data using Excel – 5 techniques for you

In the 30th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s learn how to uncover fraud in data.

How to detect fraud in data - 5 techniques for you - CP030 -  Chandoo.org podcast

What is in this session?

In the wake of hedge fund scams, accounting frauds and globalization, We, analysts are constantly second guessing every source of data. So how do you answer a simple question like, “am I being lied to?” while looking at a set of numbers your supplier has sent you.

That is our topic for this podcast session.

In this podcast, you will learn

  • Quick announcements about 50 ways & 200k BRM
  • Introduction to fraud detection
  • 5 techniques for detecting fraud
    • Benford’s law
    • Auto correlation
    • Discontinuity at zero
    • Analysis of distribution
    • Learning systems & decision trees
  • Implementing these techniques in Excel
  • A word of caution

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Who is the most consistent seller? [BYOD]

Who is the most consistent of all?

Imagine you are a category manager at a large e-commerce company. Your site offers various products, but you don’t really make these products. You list products made by other vendors on your site. Every day, these vendors would send you invoices for the amount of product they have sold. Above is a snapshot of such invoices.

Looking at this list, you have a few questions.

  1. Who is the best seller?
  2. Who is the most active seller?
  3. Who is the most consistent seller?
  4. Which seller has fewest invoices?

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