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AIDS & Obits
The author first starts off by talking about how homosexuality has evolved from being considered a mental disorder to being sinful/immoral to being a medically accepted, albeit fairly alternative and rare, form of human behavior and lifestyle. However, many of the stigmas of being gay continue and this continues in the form of how obituaries that relate to single men. Indeed, the cause of death is rarely mentioned or, as the article notes, there is often a telltale clue that gives an indication as to what happened. QA review was conducted of whether and when AIDS deaths were listed in an obituary for single men that died between the ages of 18 and 50. In 1986, there were five people that died of AIDS, at least that were identified, and that took up nearly a fourth of all listed causes. However, that number was zero out of nine in 1980 and one out of thirteen in 1984.
Data Scientist in the 21st Century
This article talks about the new job title of "data scientist." These are people that use data and data collection methods in new ways and they are apparently in very short supply in the employment and government sectors despite the huge need for them. Some universities have tried to get in front of the...
One such program is a master's program at North Carolina State. They are cited as a more modern example of the Wall Street "quants" of the 1980's and 1990's. They are typically much better served by a permanent and ongoing position rather than operating in a consultant role. One challenge is that such data scientists thrive when they are among their own rather than regular executives and employees who typically deal with simpler frameworks.
YouTube TED Summary
The video starts off about talking about a conference of great minds who met at a conference. The video then cuts to a video of a Malcom Gladwell talking about the invention of spaghetti sauce. This man, a man apparently named Howard Moscowitz, was a brilliant scientist. He goes off on a tangent and talks about how much aspartame should go into Diet Pepsi. They wanted a sweet spot between 8 and 12 but there was no clear answer as the data was "a mess." He came to the conclusion that there was not a "Perfect Pepsi"….but rather "Perfect Pepsis" (plural). He gave similar advice to Vlasic and Campbell/Prego. Prego faced the fact that they had superior sauce to Ragu…
The dominant, goal-oriented person can focus on the ultimate objective, the influence-based person can examine the interpersonal dynamics of the decisions that must be made, the steady person can foster harmony and a positive atmosphere, and the conscientious person can stay on task in a reliable fashion. While clashing personalities can thwart reaching positive and goal-directed solutions, they can create a better solution and check the excesses of one
Decision-Making My taxonomy of decision-making approaches will be based, somewhat loosely, on brain dominance theory combined with what I have seen in my experience. The underlying principle is that people are either analytical or emotional in their decision making. These are the two basic types, but within these there are differences as well. For example, rational decision-making can be purely statistical -- using the numbers to guide the process, or it
402). Moreover, Daly and Ree (2006) suggest that the probability proportionate to size method is particularly useful for sampling educational institutions for ensuring that a representative sampling is achieved. Therefore, Ms. Smith would assign larger colleges with higher enrollment rates a greater chance of being selected for her visits and correspondingly lower chances to smaller colleges with lower enrollments. In order to reduce the uncertainty involved and maximize the
Public Institutions Professional ethics refer to the ethics that surround a particular profession. These are the ethical standards that surround the job, and they will typically encompass a range of job-specific ethics and basic ethical standards in general. Organizational ethics are the set of ethical standards by which the organization operates. Each organization has its own culture, and that culture will have a built-in set of ethics that may be different
Business Decision-Making Process Decision-making through Business Environmental Scanning As a relatively new research agency in the market research industry, our firm has two main objectives for this year. The first objective is to increase profitability through increased number and/or higher research costs. The second objective, meanwhile, is to increase the firm's "visibility" in the market research industry, and be recognized as one of the major players in it. In order to achieve
" (Kinnunen, 2004) the work of Kaplan and Schroar (2003) states findings that the past performance is highly relative to capitals flows to private equity funds. The work of Mishra, Kemmerer, and Shenoy entitled: "Managing Venture Capital Investment Decisions: A Knowledge-Based Approach" relates the building of a causal map of the investment decision through use of interviewing venture capitalists and then converting this information into a "causal Bayes net" which are