I recently ran into a weird situation where I needed to change how the page path was being recorded in Google Analytics. If you’re firing pageviews through Google Tag Manager, you can easily change this with a couple of custom settings. First a short explainer. If you have URLs like www.example.com/facility?id=3 and www.example.com/facility?id=2, Google Analytics […]
Hershey, Pa. – With artificial intelligence, predicting a doctor’s decision could be like Hulu predicting what to watch next. Just as Hulu gives you recommendations based on your watch history, software could sift through medical records and make recommendations to the doctor based on similar cases. The computer models are not that difficult for trained […]
Hershey, Pa. – Doctors at Hershey Medical Center were faced with a unique challenge – helping a newborn with a rare condition that prevented her from breathing on her own. There were few documented cases of tracheal agenesis, a birth defect where the windpipe is missing or underdeveloped, and the long-term survival rate is low. […]
Converting raw, non-delimited text into usable formats If you’ve spent as much time working with datasets as I have, you’ve probably run into a situation at least once where the data you need does not come in a neat, tidy, or even usable format. In a perfect world, raw data would be delimited in some […]
I worked on a project recently where I needed a custom BMI calculator. There are plenty of BMI calculators out there, but I wanted to make a couple slight tweaks: Since most people (in the U.S.) are not going to know their weight in kg or height in cm, limit options to entering height in […]
South-central Pennsylvania is blessed with some breath-taking scenery. Whether you’re a serious hiker or just passing through, here are some of the best views around Franklin County and nearby areas. 5. Cowans Gap State Park Nestled between Cove Mountain and Tuscarora Mountain, Cowans Gap State Park offers great opportunities for hiking, swimming, camping, and more. […]
Parameters are an incredibly powerful tool when constructing queries in Microsoft Excel. And if your source data changes frequently, parameters can come in extremely handy to change multiple file names/paths hurry. For example, I had queries set up to pull data from about 30 spreadsheets from our finance department. Every month, they ran new reports […]