2009-10-30
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia
Useful overview of the standard folders on a *nix system.
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2009-10-28
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FREE Date Dimension Tool Kit
Don McMunn’s FREEWARE Date Dimension Tool Kit - Includes: Table structure, Source data, SQL Server, day or date level, CSV, tab-delimited, Excel, 4-4-5 and Gregorian calendar for download, dim_date,…
2009-10-27
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So, if you take a set of real life numeric data (e.g. sales figures, customer sat scores, baseball game attendance figures) stripped the first digit off each number and counted those up what would the distribution of numbers be? i.e how many 7s would there be? How many 2s? Would there be a pattern to the distribution? The answer is actually yes. It’s known to many number crunchers as Benford’s Law.
Here’s the Wikipedia definition: Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states…
2009-10-24
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BookFresh: Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking Software
BookFresh is online scheduling and appointment booking software that grows your business Easy online appointment scheduling
Advertises your services locally
Reminds clients of their…
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In the latest Mind Matters, the psychologists Henry L. Roediger and Bridgid Finn review some interesting new work by Nate Kornell and colleagues, which looked at the advantages of learning through error. Conventional pedagogy assumes that the best way to teach children is to have them repeatedly practice once they know the right answer, so that the correct response gets embedded into the brain. (According to this approach, it’s important to avoid mistakes while learning so that our…
2009-10-22
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Data Warehousing on a Limited Budget - A Hypothetical Case Study
Could you build a data warehouse with one additional staff member, a little outside help, and a technology budget of $50,000? We have decided to take that challenge here and see where it leads.
2009-10-19
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Oracle Information Schema | Get Oracle Information Schema at SourceForge.net
Oracle does not support the SQL standard INFORMATION_SCHEMA data dictionary. This project creates an information_schema schema and adds views compliant to the SQL standard. These views are SQL and…
2009-10-13
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Architecting an Agile Data Warehouse
Six Architecture Principles for an Agile Data Warehouse
Here are six architecture principles that can be used to create an agile data warehouse. Each one contributes toward the goal of enabling rapid…
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Robin Hanson » Cut Medicine in Half
Brilliant essay by Robin Hanson on the usefulness (lack of) and effectiveness of medical spending.
