You might not think of a Brad Pitt movie and human resources as fitting together, but stay with me… Josh Bersin of Bersin and Associates makes the case that human resources professionals need to exploit data science to support their businesses better. Just as analyzing the statistics of baseball helped Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s beat
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Here’s a neat little interview conducted by Internet Evolution’s Todd Watson of Michael Lewis and Billy Beane. Watson was attending the Information OnDemand event this past month, where one of the key themes of the event was the idea of putting business analytics into practice to help improve business outcomes. Watson felt that Beane did a
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This week, the movie Moneyball arrives in theaters, and I’m completely looking forward to seeing it. Read the book by Michael Lewis as well (author of other books such as The Big Short and The Blind Side).
On the night of the BCS National Championship, when Oregon is taking on Auburn, we’re about to crown the champion of the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs. (At least one sport has the courage to have a playoff to determine its champ!…). So the matchup pits the #1 seed 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake against the #2
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It’s official – we have a final matchup set in the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs! In the second semifinal, it was a battle of peanut butter chocolate cheesecakes – #2 seed Adam’s Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple and #3 seed Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake. Now, in our original scoring, we rated the 30th
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Cinderella’s run is over! In the first Final Four matchup , the clock struck midnight on Oreo® Cheesecake, ending its improbable run in the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs. The number #12 seed, making it as far as the semifinals, couldn’t overcome the delectable chocolateness of the top seeded 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake. The Farris clan
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In the highly anticipated return of activity in the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs, Pumpkin Cheesecake got squashed against #2 seed Adam’s Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple, setting up a premier no-holds-barred peanut butter semifinal showdown. This past weekend, the Farris family renewed its effort to make cheesecake eating an actual sport, by finishing up the quarterfinal rounds, where #7
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So, we haven’t been posting for a while, but it’s NOT because we’re tired of the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs. It turns out that we’re on vacation in NYC this week! So, we’ll be back this weekend and ready to continue the contests – in the last quarterfinal matchup, #2 seed Adam’s Peanut Butter Cup
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In a unanimous 3-0 vote, #3 seed Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake eliminated #6 seed Fresh Strawberry from the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs. As I mentioned in my last post, we (and especially Monroe) had a FULL day! It started at 9 AM with Monroe’s soccer game. She played well, making some big kicks
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This week’s quarterfinal matchup of the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs pits the upstart #3 seed Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake against the classic (and yummy) #6 seeded Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake. The Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake just came out this year – a newcomer to the stalwart cheesecake menu of the Cheesecake Factory.
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