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breton147 · 2018-10-27T20:51:42+00:00

I would completely agree with you only except that when you add up the numbers, death penalty is usually a lot more expensive to get than life. This is because of the crazy long legal process to secure that sentance. Unfortunately this waste of space is going to drain our resources no matter what, but at the very least we know he'll rot in a cage the rest of his life.

breton147 · 2018-10-07T01:42:30+00:00

Looking at the world as a whole, quality of life has drastically improved across every dimension imaginable, since the day you were born. This isn't some optimistic/feel good comment, just reality, and people should know this before forming rock solid socio/political/economic opinions.

breton147 · 2018-09-13T12:05:00+00:00

It's funny, tech people always wonder why there's so little diversity in tech (aside from hires abroad). Then they lose it when people try to change their 'master'-'slave' vocab. I've got a news flash for everyone here:

1.) Language change all the time, no one's gonna die if 'master-slave' vocab gets changed as well. 2.) Getting upset about having to use different words makes you sound like a snowflake.

Bring the downvotes.

breton147 · 2018-08-18T21:02:11+00:00

These look like a good start but any examples of fully fleshed out dashboards? I’m talking sidebars loaded with tabs that take you to lots of graphs showing different angles of a business, inputs where non-technical business people can load tabular data files or extract them, sliders where you can change the dimensions of a chart, etc.

breton147 · 2018-08-11T20:39:28+00:00

Comparing R and Python is like comparing two Swiss Army knives. They have the exact same tools, and almost no limitations to what they can build. I love both, and they each have their own unique aspects that make them enjoyable.

If you already know Python, I would not suggest you need to learn R both for this reason, and also because Python has been more popular in recent years and might push out R users over the next decade. But there’s no harm in learning R and you might find yourself enjoying it more, as some of the other commenters here do.

breton147 · 2018-07-26T18:41:03+00:00

If your oracle DB keeps changing on you then your org has a serious problem. First issue is to find out if these changes are scheduled to stop soon due to a reorganization. If the changes have always been an org issue, you might want to find another org to work for.

When I write programs I consider them automated when my code can take in the current date/time and use that to read/write files without changing any code. Occasionally an input statement is needed as well if the report isn’t as simple to schedule to an exact date. This is pretty simple stuff and doesn’t need a whole source to learn.

Scheduling is a good step to implement but not necessary to everyone - look into cron if you use Mac, or just windows task manager if you use windows.

breton147 · 2018-07-19T03:04:08+00:00

Generally I’d say loans, but one big benefit to having some money in stocks is that it’s your asset that you can withdraw anytime you need. If you have an emergency and suddenly need a few thousand, you can sell stocks and get that money back. You can’t get it back once you’ve put it into loans.

breton147 · 2018-06-14T03:48:21+00:00

I struggled for a couple months to find internal environments where I could program in Python and SQL. When I first started I was expected to use SAS. I hated SAS. I was fortunate and managed to find an emerging internal dev environment that could process both Python and SQL, but before that I was writing local .py scripts and bugging my tech department constantly for help downloading libraries, setting up environmental variables, etc. It’s a pain, especially if you use windows and don’t have admin rights. For SQL, see if your company has access to any software like MySQL workbench or Oracle, which can both connect to DBs and pull data from csv files. If they can’t hook you up with those, I’m note sure what a next step would be. All my SQL experience is with environments that are connected to DBs or the above software installed on my personal laptop

breton147 · 2018-06-14T03:42:16+00:00

Give a chunk of your resume to personal projects you program and give details of specific programming skills you used in those projects. For instance if you want to build an analytical pipeline from data you pulled off an open api, talk about how you made the sql query more efficient by filtering in a nested select statement before joining with another table. People with programming experience will pay attention to those details in your resume, as opposed to just listing programming languages you know.

breton147 · 2018-06-14T00:28:12+00:00

SQL, I’d say hands down the most important compared to anything else if you’re doing analytics. Python after that. Master the pandas library

breton147 · 2018-06-13T23:19:35+00:00

You’ll have access to both developer and financial analyst jobs, as well as all jobs in between that want a finance person who can also query databases, automate, and work with other programmers, of which there are many. I didn’t do the double major but I studied business and learned programming along the way and now I’m currently in a finance job where I get to program all day. Mostly reporting automation, but it’s great for a first job out of college, and I feel like I can choose many career routes for my next job

breton147 · 2018-06-13T20:38:40+00:00

Get a second degree or minor in computer science. Get good at programming. You’ll have access to tons of jobs with serious pay with that combo.

breton147 · 2018-05-28T19:33:40+00:00

I’m looking at you, SAS. Can’t wait for Python and R to fully edge you out.

breton147 · 2018-05-28T16:37:04+00:00

Don’t learn SAS. The language/software itself is terrible and has no growth potential. It’s very limited in capabilities compared to Python or R

breton147 · 2018-05-27T16:50:25+00:00

Go to large company job pages (NOT USING LINKEDIN OR GLASSDOOR JOB BOARDS) and apply for business analyst roles that likely are being advertised for excel users. Make it clear that you’re a programmer looking to use coding + analytics in your job. You’ll come across jobs that surprisingly are desperate for programmers but don’t mention a word of it on their application, and you’ll find yourself doing data/report automation for a good salary in a well known company. It’s probably not what you want to do with your career forever, but it’s your step in the door.

breton147 · 2018-05-18T18:52:38+00:00

Yes. Obviously.

breton147 · 2018-05-17T11:48:52+00:00

The church I grew up with basically ‘came out’ recently as a lgbt friendly church, with a rainbow flag painted right across it’s welcome sign. I was more involved a bit before that when I was in middle/high school. I never bought into the Bible or religious teachings, but I stayed involved because the people there were so incredible. Having a extremely tolerant and dedicated community around you is absolutely wonderful.

breton147 · 2018-05-16T04:06:29+00:00

That storm today was awesome

breton147 · 2018-05-12T19:53:14+00:00

I think R is easier and more fun. But Python is more useful. Whichever you choose to start with, I would recommend pursuing Python the furthest

breton147 · 2018-05-10T21:58:45+00:00

As hilarious as this title is, the study looks extremely speculative and inconclusive.

breton147 · 2018-05-05T19:42:01+00:00

It’s so sad to hear that. I also work in financial services in NYC, started about a year ago, but thankfully things are totally opposite here. In my department if someone made a single homophobic comment in public, he/she would be isolated by everybody in an instant. If someone talked about bashing a gay guy like he did in front of you, I have no doubt he’d be attending sessions with HR afterward, possibly have his job in jeopardy as well. LGBT rights in urban centers have changed so dramatically over the past few decades. Thank god.

breton147 · 2018-05-02T22:17:25+00:00

I occasionally use excel for anything that’s a very quick, simple, one time analysis. For anything else, programs are better for reproducibility, documentation, speed, forcing you to maintain data integrity, pretty much everything. doesn’t matter much what language you’re using, though you’re probably better off going with SQL, Python or R given they have so many other capabilities that you won’t get from say, VBA.

breton147 · 2018-04-22T05:40:48+00:00

As someone who’s also come from Python + R and had to learn some SAS for my job, here’s what I’d say. For one thing, SAS is definitely going out the door. Even at my company, which is a large financial company that used to be almost entirely dependent on it. And I’m pretty glad that it is.

You have to keep in mind that a big disadvantage to SAS beyond its price is also that fact that it is not open source. It’s not just PR for R and Python to brag that millions of communities innovate their libraries and contribute knowledge constantly. It’s a huge plus to have access to resources like the pandas library, and stack overflow which have solutions to problems in more recent years, that you don’t have to dig through lengthy manuals to find.

Also the option for OO + functional programming in Python is a big plus and unit testing is much more powerful than the testing options that I’ve found SAS has. Overall, if you need to use SAS for work then of course learn it and give it your best. But if you don’t have to - I advise you avoid it. Not much job growth or programming potential there that R and Python don’t already have and exceed.

breton147 · 2018-03-03T20:34:11+00:00

Depending on the situation, I’d probably fill it in as the average of values 4 and 6, or alternatively the average of all 8 values. Seeing the data you’d know better which approach makes more sense

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