I have some unbecoming behaviours. One of them is the tendency to pull my beards when I am puzzled and confused about life’s happenstances. It comes subconsciously. Some time back, my wife would point the vice to me, but she failed to help me stop it, maybe due to failure to suggest an alternative action. So, all my deliberate effort to remember not to pull the beards on my cheek and chin failed. But she helped me to become conscious of the vice. Since the coronavirus home lockdown, I shifted my office to home. I am the teacher, career guide,…
Data analytics and business intelligence
The year was 2007. I was working in one of the big four audit firms. During one of the assignments, we sat down with an IT staff and asked him for an audit log. We did not stop there. We requested for the extract of all transactions to MS Excel. Download the summitBI Data Analytics Tools A few days later, we got the information we had asked for on a thumb drive aka flash disk. We were excited. We then started performing our external audit procedures. However, without data analytics skills, our work was limited to just sorting. Like any…