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A Prescriptive Punt: how a risky decision on fourth-and-4 changed my thinking
How risk aware was that football forecast? For those of you who didn’t watch the game (or have since blocked it from your memory), let me catch you up: the Colts made the decision to go for it on fourth-and-4 at their own 43-yard line...with 24 seconds left in...
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Cost Curves and Curve Balls
Cost curves are a staple of the mining industry, similar in shape to a traditional supply curve, ranking mines/smelters/mills by their total cost of production. The theory goes that when the demand curve shifts to the left, as it inevitably will with the business cycle, those with the highest costs will be...
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Google Maps for Decision Makers?
If you surveyed 10 people, you’d get 10 different definitions for each and probably a lot of “umms”. So let’s talk about road tripping instead. Think of how our process for planning how to get from point A to point B has changed over time. Atlas - Remember when you...
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Who loves your business like Texans love Buc-ee’s?
California has Yosemite. (more…)
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Be more than a meathead.
Go look at Cargill’s job postings and you’ll see almost as many job openings for data science & technologists as feedmill operators. It seems every other day there’s a new announcement about a food retailer acquiring or partnering with a food delivery business, meal kit service, robotics, facial recognition tech,...
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