Apr 27, 2015
Green Beelievers Update
Here's an update on our greenspace adoption project in public financial management. A couple of weeks ago, we took a field trip to the prospective adoption site. It's half a block from…
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Apr 22, 2015
Analytics as a Service in the Enterprise
Analytics-as-a-service can improve the implementation of enterprise-level reporting, decision support and intelligence. Scott Beaumont and I present the outline of emerging Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS) in enterprise architectures. AaaS technology deploys statistical models as…
Apr 20, 2015
Matrix Row Echelon Form in R
For reasons unknown, I can't find a function to transform a matrix into row echelon form in R. There's a function on Rosetta Code for reduced row echelon form in R. So…
Apr 18, 2015
Is anybody there? Does anybody care?
There's been a lot of talk about the Penn State study suggesting there are no Kardashev Type II in 100,000 galaxy surveyed. Some of the conclusions are there's nobody else out there,…
Apr 14, 2015
Why I Bought a Mega Millions Ticket
Yesterday's post needed a picture of a Maryland lottery ticket for illustration. I couldn't find a good one online, so I dropped a dollar and picked one up. So why did I…
Apr 13, 2015
Maryland Lottery Proceeds Don't Pay for Education
This morning, I watched an episode of Last Week Tonight from last November.[^tense] [^treadmill] This episode, investigating state lotteries, explained how lotteries are sold to the public by showing how they fund…
Apr 6, 2015
Negative Interest Rates? Ja bitte!
I don't often talk macro, but when I do, it's on the Internet. A friend asked me, Why would someone invest in a negative yielding bond over simply stashing the same money…
Apr 2, 2015
Management Controls and the Pump
I recently heard a story instructive for public affairs education. The storyteller told me about his first job working in the data processing department of a mid-sized city in the southern United…
Mar 31, 2015
Introducing Green Beelievers
I haven't posted about our nonprofit project in a while, so here's an update. We got through Spring Break, but just before, the class decided to call the nonprofit "Green Beelievers," where…
Mar 23, 2015
Chip and Signature, What a Waste
Across the United States, new credit card readers are popping up in stores and restaurants. These readers include an embedded chip reader and a keypad. And you're probably getting new credit cards…
Mar 19, 2015
Comments on Renaming Internet Explorer
Microsoft is renaming Internet Explorer. From the article: Microsoft has tried, unsuccessfully, to shake off the negative image of Internet Explorer over the past several years with a series of amusing campaigns…