Week 6

By wiesel |

Monday, August 31, 2009

I'm a bad human being. I haven't started the assignment, eek. Been way too busy not doing it. It still doesn't make it okay. I can't decide if i want to do it at home or not. I might download some shiz from dreamspark if i have quota left in my internet usage cap at the end of the month. I really should start.

Le lecture was okay. I apparently am not as good at identifying dimensions as I thought. I made a rookie mistake in the model i was making in my head when POD made us think about the data (pictured). I can't remember what my mistake was but i was a little bit unhappy with myself. I thought i was going to get it right, but i messed it up. I was effected by the overconfidence bias i believe. Which is weird cos when i did the overconfience bias test i got 9 or 10 out of 10 when we were meant to do it with 90% certainty, so i was on the money.

Crappy labs slowed me down, i had to login to another computer once i had already got VS up and running, what a bummer. I am going to be sick of pivot tables by the end of semester aren't i? I see how they are quick and easy, i just don't like them. I found myself using them at work the other day, i wanted to shoot myself then i realised i was saving heaps of time using it rather than writing vlookup statements.

I didn't get up to MDX in the tut, which i was gutted about. That was the bit i wanted to do the most. I got stuck with my cube not loading properly in excel, it was really annoying and it really slowed my progress. I had to refresh the cubes in VS from memory. I tried just redeploying the whole project but that didn't work. Anyways that's over now.

I'm really over my Thursday schedule now though, cos pretty much every week I am busy from 9am-4pm with group meetings and classes and have no time for a break and considering it's week 6 that's not going to change in the next 7 weeks. I think i need to do what happens in Multiplicity.