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My Near Fatal Automobile Accident

Today is the 13th anniversary of my near fatal automobile accident. Automobile Accident On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at approximately 4pm I was in a near fatal automobile accident. I was driving east bound on interstate 80 in Utah, when at mile marker 57 my truck drifted off to the right side of the highway. I corrected to the left which sent my truck into five horizontal and one vertical rolls....

November 23, 2015

How to Maximize iPhone Battery Lifespan

There are many easy things you can do to maximize the battery lifespan of your new iPhone or iPad. Battery lifespan is the length of time before you will need to replace your iPhone or iPad battery. Here are 3 things you should do to maximize your iPad or iPhone battery lifespan 1. Avoid Excessive Heat Excessive heat is the number 1 killer of battery lifespan. When you are charging your iPhone or iPad you should take it out of any case you may have so that your device will not become excessively hot....

October 17, 2015

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence: Combine Small Pie Chart Slices into Other

With BusinessObjects Web Intelligence it is relatively straight forward to create a pie chart. Often the data you are working with will create a pie chart that displays hundreds of unique slices, many of which are so small that you can’t see them. How do you go about combining these smaller pie slices into an “Other” category? Consider a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Document with the following data in a Block Turning this data into a pie chart will display 19 unique slices....

August 31, 2015

How to Install MySQL on Mac OS X

The process to install MySQL on Mac OS X is a pretty straight forward process. MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases. It is used in a wide variety of applications. Download MySQL Installer First you will need to download the DMG archive from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Install MySQL from the downloaded DMG archive as you would normally a typical application. Additional Configuration For maximum compatibility you should create a symbolic link to where MySQL places the socket....

July 31, 2015

SQLite for Data Analysis

Before I started using a Mac as my main computer, I would often find myself using Microsoft Access to do some data analysis for a one-off project. Now that I’m using a Mac, I needed to find a tool to do what I used to do with Microsoft Access. In my search I came across SQLite. SQLite is an excellent lightweight database that is extremely fast and a great tool for a data analyst....

May 8, 2015