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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 3Q2013

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2013. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Drools Developer's Cookbook, by Lucas

New Book Review: "Leadership Conversations"

New book review for Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders, by Alan S. Berson and Richard G. Stieglitz, Jossey-Bass, 2013, reposted here: The content of this book centers around different types of leadership conversations: to build relationships, to develop others, to make decisions, and to take

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 2

This past month, I submitted a first post in a series that discusses some of my pro bono contributions as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section. As stated in that post, my goals are to work with the Membership Development Chair to meet his immediate needs, as well as explore

New Book Review: "R Graphics Cookbook"

New book review for R Graphics Cookbook, by Winston Chang, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: This book is the third that I have recently used to get up to speed on the R language and environment. The other two texts include "R in a Nutshell" and "

New Book Review: "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks"

New book review for Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement, by Eric Redmond and Jim Wilson, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012, reposted here: Over the past couple years, I have read considerably about non-traditional database products, whether they be categorized as NoSQL or NewSQL,

New Book Review: "The End of Competitive Advantage"

New book review for The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business, by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, reposted here: While the term "competitive advantage" can be defined in more than one way, it can be argued

Rave Run: Chesapeake & Ohio (C & O) Canal Towpath and Potomac River Waterfront (Georgetown)

Why a post on running within a blog that concentrates on business and technology? My first post in this series explained that one habit that I picked up on the road as a consultant over the years is always inquiring about local running paths while visiting unfamiliar locales for the

Personal Reading List: 2Q2013

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2013. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Drools Developer's Cookbook, by Lucas

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 1

Over three years have past since my last post here on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace. My latest pro bono contributions over the last few months have been working as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago section. The Statistician role is new for the section, and works within

Treadmill Maintenance: Control Board Replacement

A couple years ago, I wrote my first blog post in this treadmill maintenance series on how to replace the rear roller of my Smooth Fitness 5.25, which blew out a day before what was literally the end of my three-year warranty. It so happens that on Christmas Eve