Author Archives: pattjd

I just had my 13th anniversary at work a couple of weeks ago. I am always amazed at how many people keep up with that kind of trivia. I got emails, texts, and phone calls from quite a few people….many that I haven’t talked to since this time last year. Regardless, it has been aContinue reading “Did you get to cluster something today Daddy?”

The time has come that I knew would eventually come. That point when family, school, and work, didn’t leave anytime for life. The problem is that I had to take a road trip. Maybe it was that life actually didn’t leave time for work or school. Regardless, my 7 month old grand-daughter needed to beContinue reading “Week 4 is Tough!!”

Week 3 has been a lot of fun. It has been challenging to say the least, but the “learnings” are absolutely worth the effort. At work my team teases me about how often I use standard deviations and Z-scores in our day to day work. It helps me understand not just the item or storeContinue reading “Week 3”

This has been an exciting week. I have written my first SAS program. I have also learned some really cool tricks in manipulating data in SAS. I wish we used this at work. I have re-learned a ton about probabilities, and brushed up on some statistics. The data wrangling process in SAS is amazingly straightContinue reading “Week 2”

I made this hard on myself. The material is really very organized and straight forward, and I’m feeling pretty good about what I’ve accomplished this week. As an overview, I learned how to build this blog, and wrote my first SAS program. I had very good instructions and plenty of resources to complete both, butContinue reading “Week 1”

The point of attack changes as the play evolves.” -Nick Saban This is the first post on my new blog. I hope to share with you my educational adventure, as I attempt to evolve along with the technology and processes of Business Analytics. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more.Continue reading “My First Blog Post”

I really enjoy solving problems. It is very therapeutic to fully immerse in a problem, and then extremely rewarding to find a solution. I worked with my Grandfather for several years in my early career. He was a Navy trained Electronic Engineer. He could fix anything and he loved puzzles. I believe he loved moreContinue reading “Why Am I Here?”