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What a ride?! I can’t believe the first semester is over. Five more to go. I heard that the first one is the toughest and takes the most time. We’ll see. I have learned so much. I don’t know how to describe how awesome this was. I think it was awesome because of my ownContinue reading “The Final Week”

I have been thinking about this journey. I started this semester thinking this was going to be a fun refresher for me. I have to admit that I didn’t know anything about Logistic Regression before a couple of weeks ago. I had never even considered how to predict a yes/no, on/off, 1/0….. actually never evenContinue reading “Week 14 Logistic Regression”

The heat is on! Wow! things are piling up. Final projects are being assigned and we are two weeks from the end of the first semester. Time to hunker down and get it done! This weeks lesson was on Text Analysis. It is amazing what you can do with random sets of texts. I wasContinue reading “Week 13”

The end is in sight. Dang, there is still a lot of work to do. I finally got caught up…somewhat. I took a couple of days off from work, and buckled down. I really, really liked function building in R. I found myself wasting time playing with the mechanism, to see if I could figureContinue reading “Week 12”

R is making more sense and getting easier, or I should probably say more familiar. I have learned to code the simple straightforward tasks without help or having to copy and paste. SAS was much harder for me. Maybe it’s just that I learned so much in the SAS section that it was easier toContinue reading “Week 11”

Sometimes I crack myself up. Week 10 – R….I thought that was funny. I have really enjoyed learning to program in R. I am still impressed at how intuitive it can be, and at the same time get so frustrated with nuances. The case sensitivity is probably what catches me the most. It’s pretty easyContinue reading “Week 10-R”

Don’t ever get behind! I have forgotten the stress created when you get behind in a class. It’s similar to being behind at work, but not quite. At work, I can literally go off site for a day or two, during business hours, and burn through whatever work I have. Yes, you get an unhealthyContinue reading “Week 9”

It’s been a while since i last posted. Spring break wasn’t much of a break. I am still having a great time in school. I can’t even describe how much I’ve learned even though my brain still feels like old rusty gears grinding together. I am now insanely jealous of those students that make itContinue reading “This is a crazy World”

I can’t believe how fast this is going. I feel smarter…it really doesn’t matter if I actually am smarter or not, because I feel smarter. We are finally getting to a point where we actually have new, very real, usable, marketable, skills that we didn’t have when we started. It is extremely rewarding to me.Continue reading “Sneaking up on Mid-Terms”

For the first time since this trek started, I almost feel caught up. I really enjoyed this week learning the basics of t-tests and regression analysis. I vaguely remember doing this work in my undergrad work, but I completely missed the understanding of how many ways I can actually use this stuff. It is kindContinue reading “Fun Week”