![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
This is glued together out of a bunch of stuff I just said in AIM to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enotsola:
i have just been playing with numbers all day and my head is kinda bzzz with them. need to break from it, but i like finding out what statistics I can pull from things, and putting them together in various ways to see where they overlap. like, what i counted for Janice was how many items we check out total at all in a quarter, and what percentage was tapes, what was computers, what was other stuff, the idea being to prove that it's not crazy for us to have 20 student assistants on top of 3 full time staff. and then i thought hey, i can cross this with the VTEA enrollment and try to justify our existence to Workforce, by showing that it's likely that VTEA students taking one of X DLC classes are coming in to check out their tapes, thus they need us. and then i thought well, let's see how many students are checking out DLC tapes, and what percentage of our tapes DO get checked out at some point... etc. i am sure everyone is annoyed with my emails by now, but i find it fun in a warped kind of way. i should be a data analyst for a living, or something, because i would get to have 1) working with details, 2) finding connections, and 3) dealing with computers instead of people, all in one swell foop! i like finding out what stories i can make the numbers tell me.
(I don't mean this in the sense of warping statistics to prove whatever you want to prove. I mean it in the sense of seeing how much "real life" information I can possibly wring out of a given set of data.)
enotsola:i have just been playing with numbers all day and my head is kinda bzzz with them. need to break from it, but i like finding out what statistics I can pull from things, and putting them together in various ways to see where they overlap. like, what i counted for Janice was how many items we check out total at all in a quarter, and what percentage was tapes, what was computers, what was other stuff, the idea being to prove that it's not crazy for us to have 20 student assistants on top of 3 full time staff. and then i thought hey, i can cross this with the VTEA enrollment and try to justify our existence to Workforce, by showing that it's likely that VTEA students taking one of X DLC classes are coming in to check out their tapes, thus they need us. and then i thought well, let's see how many students are checking out DLC tapes, and what percentage of our tapes DO get checked out at some point... etc. i am sure everyone is annoyed with my emails by now, but i find it fun in a warped kind of way. i should be a data analyst for a living, or something, because i would get to have 1) working with details, 2) finding connections, and 3) dealing with computers instead of people, all in one swell foop! i like finding out what stories i can make the numbers tell me.
(I don't mean this in the sense of warping statistics to prove whatever you want to prove. I mean it in the sense of seeing how much "real life" information I can possibly wring out of a given set of data.)
