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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostJust closing in on £1,000 pd thank you very much. PowerPoint and gravitas... and subbies of course
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Originally posted by hugebrain View PostMy technical vocabulary is getting a bit out of date.
Where I work there are a bunch of clouds, data lakes, non-relational databases, microservices and such like. Lots of information zipping about.
So my questions:
1. Is this big data?
2. Can I raise my rate to a grand a day?
Failing that.
1. Is this DevOps
2. Can I raise my rate to a grand a day?
I don’t want to repeat my mistake of rejecting all the jobs that wanted “Redbrick Universities” because I thought I’d have to work with plebs.
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Originally posted by jayn200 View PostNot the end of the world if the data is stored in SQL which is what it sounds like and they are just doing some analysis in excel. Sure there might be better solutions but excel is fine (maybe even the tool of choice in some cases) for a bit of ad hoc analysis... it just fails as data storage.
That is exactly what is happening after I forced them into it. Previously it was all done in Excel and stored on a network share. Then they wanted to control it and report on it. Excel is acting as a screen and a button to confirm. Stored procedures run by VBA, I still feel dirty!
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostPeople here are mean. I thought this was a highly entertaining start to a thread then the usual trolls poisoned it.
HB - if you have a data lake, make sure it is a lake and not a pond. The difference is its depth. If you have a shallow body of data, it's a pond. If it's deep enough to have a zone where daylight can't reach, it's a lake. If you truly have the latter then that's where data mining (another handy term to know) comes in. I've not yet figured out how one mines a lake, although GoT could give you tips on how to go fishing with dynamite.
If going for the suggested plan B you could also incorporate some of pooper's charts into your powerpoint slides as that will help illustrate your expertise.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostApparently our finance team are working on a "database", its an excel file with about 2000 lines in it refreshed from SQL.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostApparently our finance team are working on a "database", its an excel file with about 2000 lines in it refreshed from SQL.
Saying that though, i've made a career out of working with finance depts fixing their issues so maybe i shouldn't complain
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