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Data, Glorious Data!

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Gold Canyon, Arizona

We are back at Gold Canyon RV Resort, and we are back with Dish television and Internet.

It’s hardwired to each spot in the resort.

Color me HAPPY!

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I have loved data all my life.

One of my first jobs was as a data entry clerk entering numbers into columns in bookkeeping ledgers. And don’t even get me started on the thrill of running a 10-key adding machine.

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Later when computers came along, I did data processing: entering data into computers where the computer programs did the calculations.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. It had a whopping 64 kilobytes of RAM (random access memory). I LOVED that machine!

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As computers got more powerful and after graduation from college, I dove into databases: both design and implementation. Their capacity to store and manipulate data was a perfect fit for a data geek like me.

I loved my job as a data analyst and could lose myself for hours writing SQL code to extract data to help organizations solve problems.

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I’m not working with data while I’m on ‘faux retirement’, but I still love data although now it’s in a different form.

I love Internet data!

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I’m so thrilled to be back with full data that I can access through my phone, my computer, and my tablet. Sometimes all at once.

Yeeehaaaawwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 thoughts on “Data, Glorious Data!”

  2. Hooray on the internet and tv. I didn’t realize that about you. I really don’t like inputting data. Maybe, it is because my brain and my fingers don’t always communicate well which leads to errors which ticks me off to have to reenter everything. I like understanding how to do things, but not the busywork part of things. I guess that is why I am a theory rather than a reality person…. 😉

    1. While I like the mindlessness of data entry, nothing, for me, beats the challenge of writing SQL code. “SELECT this WHERE this AND this OR that criteria is met.” Probably sounds boring to most, but I’m a geek. I think Mom, with her master’s in statistics, would have loved it. 🙂

    1. I’ve always thought that Mom was born 75 years too soon. She would have loved living totally immersed in technology and information. 🙂

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