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Simplifying Work and Empowering Teams: How Microsoft Tools Can Boost Your Business.

Lawrence Maoka - 2024-04-10 13:31:37

Do you feel like your team is spending too much time on repetitive tasks like tracking timesheets or managing approvals? That’s not an uncommon experience. Repetitive tasks take up our time and mental energy, and they can often lead to mistakes. That’s why automating and streamlining processes is crucial. The problem is, for many companies, they just don’t have dedicated programmers to automate their tasks. Thankfully, with Microsoft's Power Platform you won’t need sen... Read more

All Logic and No Data: Critical Thinking Red Flags Part 5

Andrew Badham - 2023-07-11 15:07:14

Making sense is a crucial part of any argument. If you’re listening to someone’s advice and the pieces of their logical puzzle don’t match up, that’s probably a good sign that their ideas are misguided. However, just because something makes sense doesn’t mean it is true. When we believe things are true just because it makes sense, we are effectively using deductive reasoning. Deductive vs Inductive Reasoning There are two ways we can make sense of information, t... Read more

Overcomplicating Simple Things: Critical Thinking Red Flags Part 4

Andrew Badham - 2023-05-30 11:41:41

In the last installment of our misinformation identification series, we looked at the red flag of making complicated things seem too simple. In this article, we’re going to be looking at the exact opposite, people who overcomplicate simple things. In our previous article, we mentioned that, in almost every subject, there is an overwhelming depth of complexity. So, it feels slightly contradictory to now say that you can overcomplicate anything. But hear me out; both ideas can be true at... Read more

How to Clean Data: Data Cleaning Made Easy with Power Query

Lawrence Maoka - 2023-05-22 15:02:07

What is clean data? If you’re new to data science, you might have heard the term “clean data” used quite a bit but maybe you’re not too familiar with what it means. Clean data is data that has been carefully reviewed, validated, and processed to make sure it is accurate, consistent, and complete. To clean data, you have to identify and correct or remove errors, inconsistencies, and discrepancies within the dataset. It is an essential step in the data preparation proce... Read more

Making Complicated Things Seem Simple: Critical Thinking Red Flags Part 3

Andrew Badham - 2023-05-16 16:58:40

In part 1 of our series, we looked at people who make things seem too good to be true and then spoke about the opposite: people who make things seem too bad to be true. We have a similar dichotomy for this next subject: there are people who make complicated things sound simple, and there are those that make simple things overly complicated. Both should be red flags, but let’s start with the former: making complicated things seem too simple. Life is complicated A good starting point for... Read more

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