tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post2632794561684922800..comments2023-11-03T07:12:36.027-05:00Comments on Thimk: RuleBased Forecasting, RBF, Part 1James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-34850557168979452112011-11-02T09:28:42.020-05:002011-11-02T09:28:42.020-05:00@Peter:
Let's see, counting on my fingers (an...@Peter:<br /><br />Let's see, counting on my fingers (and some toes) that comes out to about 13 years. I did electronics and EE stuff until 1989 when I "saw the light" and switched to software - lots more fun but I seem to have forgotten my partial-DE and Fourier transforms. :-) <br /><br />Not only that, but after 20 or 30 years of pure software, it does get boring doing the same think week after week, even if it is doing rulebased design and Java and C++. VERY few businesses use anything more complicated than what you would find on a simple (really simple) calculator. (No... Don't flip over to the scientific calculator for all that really neat stuff over there.)<br /><br />However, my RBF work is bringing it all back home now. I've had to dig out my stats books, my forecasting books and my math books to wrap up all of that with an RBF. Now software is getting to be fun again. Far more of a challenge but I can't seem to get the ordinary programmer excited about it. Maybe it's just the way I present it.<br /><br />Keep up the good work. When you find a "clean database" let me know. GIGO still holds for database as well as methods and sub-routines.<br /><br />SDG<br />jcoJames Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-51739668395974990842011-11-01T18:43:24.075-05:002011-11-01T18:43:24.075-05:00In the few short years that I've been doing Ja...In the few short years that I've been doing Java development, I can honestly say I've never seen "clean" data. The bigger the company and the bigger the dataset, the dirtier it is. Then again, I've only been working as a software engineer since 1997, so maybe one day I'll see clean data.woolfelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814445471254728002noreply@blogger.com