Author: Ajay Ohri

http://about.me/ajayohri

Analytical Jobs for Thanksgiving /Christmass

some analytical positions from Analytical Searches.com

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Relocation is provided for all except NY. H1 transfers are sponsored for the Analytical Manager/Senior Manager and Business Reporting Analyst only. ————————————————————————–

  1. Analytical Manager and Senior Manager/To $160K
  2. Analytics Manager/CA or IL/To $120K
  3. Bank Analytics Manager/IL/To $120K
  4. Business Reporting Analyst/NY/To $90K
  5. Credit Card Risk Analyst/ Illinois/To $95K
  6. Director Analytics/San Diego/To $170K
  7. Director, Operations Strategy and Analytics/San Diego/To $150K
  8. Lead Risk Analyst/CA & TX/To $150K
  9. Manager Modeling & Analytics/CT/To $120K
  10. Marketing Analytics/NY/To$85K
  11. Principal Product Manager, Vertical Markets/$150K/WA
  12. Research Statistician/OH/To $110K
  13. Senior Consultant Marketing Analytics/NY/To $120K
  14. Senior Director Strategic Consulting/To $130K
  15. Senior Manager Decision Science/CA/To $160K
  16. Senior Marketing / Web Analyst /NY/To $100K
  17. Senior Statistician/Modeling Position/VA/$80K
  18. Statistical Director/ Boston or Dallas/To $145K
  19. Statistical Manager/Boston/To $95K

 

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Why do bloggers blog ?

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Step 1 is to create internal motivation to create a blog in the first place

Step 2 is to find what to write

Reasons Bloggers Blog-

Basic -Ranting


Examples- I hate Facebook Platform team treats me badly with waits, and breaks my code.

SAS Marketing wont give me  a big discount to make me look good in front of my boss.

Companies  wont give me their software for free- even though I will use it to make money (and not play X Box)

I want my vendors to be FOSS but my customers to switch to SaaS.

Google wont do this- Apple wont do that- Microsoft wont do those.

Revolution would give me 4 great packages but not the open source for RevoScaler (which only 300 people would understand in the first place)

Safety-

I better kiss the Professor and give a Turkey for dinner, as he sits on my thesis committee.

I will recommend Prof X’s lousy book in the hope he recommends my lousy book as a textbook too.

It is safe to laugh when the boss is making a joke-I should comment on her corporate blog, and retweet her.

Belonging-

I belong to this great online community of smart people. Let me agree to what they say.

I really believe in EVERYTHING that ALL the 2 MILLION members of the community have to say ALL the TIME.

I belong to this online community because all my friends are on my computer.

4 Egositic

My blog page rank is now X plus delta tau because of sugary key words (2004)

My technorati numbers rise (2005)

I was once on Digg (2007)

I have Z * exp N followers on Twitter and even more on Facebook (2008)

My Klout is increasing on twitter, My stack overflow reputation ‘s cup floweth over. (2009)

My Karma on Reddit is more important than my Karma in real life (2010)

Self Actualization-

I got time to kill- and I think I may learn more, meet intersting people and discover something wandering on the internet.

All those who wonder are not lost- Wikiquote

I got a story to tell, poems to write, code to give away. A free  Blog is something a Chinese , an Iranian  and a North korean really really know what the value is.

But after all that, WHY Do Bloggers Blog?

  • Because we are still waiting for Facebook to create the Blog Killer.
  • Its better than saying I am unemployed and a social loner
  • Reddit Karma feels good. Any Karma of any kind.
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Happy Thanksgiving Id

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى‎ ‘Īdu l-’Aḍḥā) or “Festival of Sacrifice” or

“Greater Eid” is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims

worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to

sacrifice his son Ishmael (Isma’il) as an act of obedience to God, before

God intervened to provide him with a ram (uncastrated male sheep) to

sacrifice instead.[1]

The meat is divided into three parts to be distributed to others. The family retains one third of the share, another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors, and the other third is given to the poor & needy.

Eid al-Adha is the latter of two Eid festivals celebrated by Muslims, whose basis comes from Sura 2 (Al-Baqara) Ayah 196 in the Qur’an.

 

The incident with Abraham and God is also mentioned in Old Testament

1431 (Islamic Calendar): November 16, 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac

The Binding of Isaac, in Genesis 22:1-24 is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah.

The narration is referred to as the Akedah (עקדה) or Akedat Yitzchak (עקידת יצחק) in Hebrew and as the Dhabih (ذبيح) in Arabic. The sacrifice itself is called an Olah in Hebrew — for the significance of sacrifices, especially in Biblical times, see korban.

Thanksgiving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving#cite_note-Encyclop.C3.A6dia_Britannica-0

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada.

Thanksgiving was a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships.

Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. This holiday has since moved away from its religious roots.

Note from Ajay-

Goats are slaughtered on Id and Turkeys on Thanksgiving

Happy Holidays to you.

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https://decisionstats.com/2010/09/18/happy-yom-kippur/

http://www.oyate.org/resources/shortthanks.html

(Id is  a holiday in secular India as we celebrate Minority Festivals-by constitutional law )

Zen and the art of applying T tests to Spam Data

Decisionstats traffic seemed up mmm but Spam is way way up

Whos spamming my dear bloggie

hmm

is it the russians doing a link spam. unlikely they dont bot against Akismet that much (as they fail)

And Captcha can be failed by python (apparently. sigh)

Is there a co relation of certain tags of posts, and count of spam- hoping to distort say blogs’s search engine rankings for SAS WPS Lawsuit in Google or jet ski across  pacific in Google.

Sigh- an old retired outlaw black hat is never kept in peace. Try doing a blog search for R in Google- Revo  is now down to number 7 (which is hmm given Google Instant)

Of course I think too much about SEO, but I dont run CPC ads- I made much more money when traffic is low – say 5-10 small businesses needing to forecast their sales .

and enjoy your Thanksgiving. Remember the Indians bring the Turkeys.

 

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Reputation on Social Networks

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Classical Economics talks of the value of utlity, diminishing marginal utility if the same things is repeated again and again (like spam in an online community)

StackOverflow has a great way of measuring reputation – and thus allows intangible benefits /awards -similar to wikipedia badges , reddit karma. Utility is also auto generated like @klout  on twitter or lists memberships and other sucessful open source communities online including Ubuntu forums have ways to create ah hierarchies even in class less utopian classes.

Basically it then acts as the motivating game as the mostly boy population try to race on numbers.

 

in Stack Overflow- you can get buddies to upvote you and basically act as a role playing game too.

—–From http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation

To gain reputation, post good questions and useful answers. Your peers will vote on your posts, and those votes will cause you to gain (or, in rare cases, lose) reputation:

answer is voted up +10
question is voted up +5
answer is accepted +15 (+2 to acceptor)
post is voted down -2 (-1 to voter)

A maximum of 30 votes can be cast per user per day, and you can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day (although accepted answers and bounty awards are immune to this limit). Also, please note that votes for any posts marked “community wiki” do not generate reputation.

Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:

15 Vote up
15 Flag offensive
50 Leave comments†
100 Edit community wiki posts
125 Vote down (costs 1 rep)
200 Reduced advertising
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DirkE and JD swoon about Shane's MOM in Room 106 while writing R code

In a shadowy room in cyberworld , two geeks plot revenge on a common

blgger and up vote each other on stack overflow while discussing Shane’s MOM

–http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/106/2010/11/15

 

Shane

How can you announce this on SO?

Oh…

Sure…go for it.

I’ll downvote it.

🙂

We should also add it into the [r] wiki.

I added it to the wiki.

We should probably try to clean that up a little; some of the other tags have put a lot of effort into it. (e.g. stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info)

Whoa! I didn’t downvote your post.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

I was wondering…
Feel free to upvote it to set it back to even.

Shane
Shane
3:18 PM

I did.

Someone voted to close too.

Some people take themselves way too seriously…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Yup. And not unlike the people constantly call for community-wiki.

BTW I didn’t see the button for CW anymore once it was posted. What am I missing?
Shane
Shane

I think that I may have seen something about a bug related to that…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Four close votes, and -2 score. Whoa Nelly.
Shane
Shane

Ha! I’m not overly surprised. Meant to suggest that you use CW…

Ironically, you’re still ahead in the rep. on this question, right? Although I think that it might get downvoted into oblivion before we’re done…
Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

I up-voted. Dirk, I’ve got your back. 😉

 

 

Begin……

3 hours later…

JD Long
JD Long
8:09 PM

@DirkEddelbuettel you catch Ajay’s latest? ow.ly/3a8gK
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Jeebus

I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?

Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.
JD Long
JD Long

@DirkEddelbuettel I stumbled on that one in Twitter. pipes project has been tabled while I fight some other battles.

I think he’s fishing for SEO sugar with his posts. His use of words seems contrived to include key words over and over
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Twitter is so useless, between him and Ed Borasky’s (znmeb) spambots nothing else of value appers.
JD Long
JD Long

I guess like so many streams it requires filtering. The basic twitter blocking takes them out prett

y quickly

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

So blocking is common? They ought to show that: “subscribed to N, listened to by M and showing good taste by blocking O asshats”
JD Long
JD Long
8:19 PM

ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Oh boy 🙂 Romain has fired a salvo on r-devel: “Depends on what your goal is: getting the job done, or learning about the R/C API”. Hehe.

@JDLong Tell who: One is Shane’s mother, and the other is … ?

JD Long
JD Long

speaking of shane’s mom, he and Josh deciding to be productive members of real society today?
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DirkE and JD swoon about Shane’s MOM in Room 106 while writing R code

In a shadowy room in cyberworld , two geeks plot revenge on a common

blgger and up vote each other on stack overflow while discussing Shane’s MOM

–http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/106/2010/11/15

 

Shane

How can you announce this on SO?

Oh…

Sure…go for it.

I’ll downvote it.

🙂

We should also add it into the [r] wiki.

I added it to the wiki.

We should probably try to clean that up a little; some of the other tags have put a lot of effort into it. (e.g. stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info)

Whoa! I didn’t downvote your post.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

I was wondering… Feel free to upvote it to set it back to even.

Shane
Shane
3:18 PM

I did.

Someone voted to close too.

Some people take themselves way too seriously…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Yup. And not unlike the people constantly call for community-wiki.

BTW I didn’t see the button for CW anymore once it was posted. What am I missing?
Shane
Shane

I think that I may have seen something about a bug related to that…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Four close votes, and -2 score. Whoa Nelly.
Shane
Shane

Ha! I’m not overly surprised. Meant to suggest that you use CW…

Ironically, you’re still ahead in the rep. on this question, right? Although I think that it might get downvoted into oblivion before we’re done…
Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

I up-voted. Dirk, I’ve got your back. 😉

 

 

Begin……

3 hours later…

JD Long
JD Long
8:09 PM

@DirkEddelbuettel you catch Ajay’s latest? ow.ly/3a8gK
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Jeebus

I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?

Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.
JD Long
JD Long

@DirkEddelbuettel I stumbled on that one in Twitter. pipes project has been tabled while I fight some other battles.

I think he’s fishing for SEO sugar with his posts. His use of words seems contrived to include key words over and over
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Twitter is so useless, between him and Ed Borasky’s (znmeb) spambots nothing else of value appers.
JD Long
JD Long

I guess like so many streams it requires filtering. The basic twitter blocking takes them out pretty quickly
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

So blocking is common? They ought to show that: “subscribed to N, listened to by M and showing good taste by blocking O asshats”
JD Long
JD Long
8:19 PM

ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Oh boy 🙂 Romain has fired a salvo on r-devel: “Depends on what your goal is: getting the job done, or learning about the R/C API”. Hehe.

@JDLong Tell who: One is Shane’s mother, and the other is … ?

JD Long
JD Long

speaking of shane’s mom, he and Josh deciding to be productive members of real society today?
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