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« Vonage | Main | Al Lutz On "Rock It Mountain" » April 26, 2005One Afternoon. No IM. Lots Of Recoding.Owing to an amusing mix-up between my new building manager, the Comcast guy, and call forwarding, I am still cable-Internet free. (Thank you, again, Mr. "linksys"). In some ways, this is OK, because I'm up to my neck in work for Database Marketing right now. The source, tab-delimited files I received are requiring a fair bit of massaging in Excel before I can import them in to SPSS. Without the recoding, there's no good way for SPSS to be able to make meaningful interpretations about what's what - SPSS would have a hard time understanding that "03/20/2001 13:07" is, in fact, a date (20th of March, 2001 at 1:07 PM) instead of some random sequence of letters. It's time-consuming, painstaking, and not a little bit boring. However, it's important stuff. And I know that if I had blazing fast Internet access, I'd find myself with an irresistible temptation to IM and e-mail with people as a distraction. Ah, well. Back to it. Posted by Gavin Shearer at April 26, 2005 3:08 PM. Posted to UW MBA. |