Oct 06 2008
‘one over the eight’ is defined by a UK phrases website as ‘the drink that renders you drunk’.
My one over the eight is actually number 3 with weak beer (under 4.5% alc.) with Liquor my one over the eight is drink number 2.
These non-trivial life-style details have caused the normally supportive Excel to get a mardy on because 9 does not equal 2 or 3.
5 of your thoughts on one over the eight
Sep 20 2008
Lucid dreaming is apparantly quite rare. Excel has told me that the 10 friends and family who replied to my emailed question ‘do you lucid dream?’ were all wildly over educated, regularly creative (musicians, poets, designers, teenager), and all except 1 are either not-married or over the age of 30. More specifically:
5/10 people do Lucid dream, including:
It’s fun, I’d highly recommend it if you don’t already indulge…
4 of your thoughts on where do you want to go tonight…
Jul 13 2008
Google analytics reported visitor loyalty (probably unique IP addresses?) for one week in July 2008 as significantly* BIGGER than during one week in January 2007.
January 2007 (July 2008) :
Up to 29 (101) visitors (unique IP addresses) , other than my good-self, return frequently enough for me to assume they drop-by on a daily basis. Out of pure, unfettered, cussedness I am also assuming that at least half of these loyal visitors are naughty, naughty, spam-bots or or other bots of an icky nature, as opposed to pleasantly pert bots. This assumption still leaves me with about 50 regular, daily, visitors who may actually be people!
* Significance in a formal Statistical sense identified by using Excel’s t-test function for a one-tailed, independent groups t-test that lead to the rejection of the null hypothesis, h0, p< 0.001
h0 ‘= there are no more people reading my blog regularly in July 2008 than in January 2007′
The result is statistically very powerful but I have low confidence levels in it because of the low signal-noise ratio introduced by the way the variable (a loyal blog reading person) is operationalised (unique IP address) that introduces a lot of noise mostly from bots.
Even worse than low statistical confidence is my inappropriate test-selection. Inappropriate because although the data fulfills some of the assumtions of the independent groups t-test e.g. parametric, it is sufficiently naughty to potentially violate other assumptions such as truely independent groups.
In summary, we can probably ignore the statistical significance of the numbers because of all the non-number related issues.
Statistical escapades put aside, I am still convinced that the Wendy House has quite a few more regular readers now than in January 2007.
2 of your thoughts on 101 Reading Wendyhome
Apr 05 2008
facilitator: what’s this?
Wendy: an excel pie chart?
facilitator: anything else? a branding symbol
Wendy: errrrrrmmmmm…
facilitator: Mercedes
Wendy: I’m a pedestrian
facilitator: [?????]
write the first thought on branding. part 1
Oct 27 2007
Decision quality is inversely proportional to the rate of decisions made and directly proportional to prior experience of making similar decisions provided the hormone level remains constant which the bugger never does.
write the first thought on Excel expounds on decision quality
Sep 07 2007
OH Look at this!
Excel is trying to tell me something about pies and drinkies.
I’m not sure what exactly Excel is trying to tell me. I like green*, gradual shading, tea, ale and pie so I’ll immerse myself in the visual aesthetic of the pie chart experience and understanding might emerge with time and fermentation.
Well done Excel, you surely must be right.
Previous sporadic entries in this series where Excel produces:
* thanks to Raymond for pointing out the essentialness of the green-shaded-3D-pie.
3 of your thoughts on Excel explains #6: drinkies and pies
Dec 27 2006
twenty-third post in a size-ist Wednesday series of “why wendy’s single“.
Reason # 23: penchant for petite
Excel collected evidence on my previous relationships that
Based on a chart infested detailed examination of this data Excel has informed me that my relationship success (lasting for more than 1 year) predictors include the boy being under
According to Excel, size does matter. In the US, boys of these proportions that are also over the legal age for consenting naughtiness are not common. Looks like I’ll have to work on aligning my attitudes with the ’big is beautiful’ philosophy or volunteer to take some social deviant treatment lest I become susceptible to commiting a social crime akin to another local gal, LeTourneau.
write the first thought on penchant for petite
Oct 18 2006
unlucky thirteenth episode in Wednesday a highly scientific series establsihing exactly “why wendy’s single“.
Reason # 13: Excel said so. Pluto is unsure.
I decided to consult Excel about the ‘why’ of my singleness. We put some numbers together and massaged them into many wonderful tables and charts. Excel said there are too many Independent variables reasons involved. The likelihood of these many independent variables multi-dimensions aligning like planets* to produce result in an appropriate boyfriend nearby decreases exponentially with each identified singleness reason, independent variable, dimension predictor. These exponential distrubtions align with Excel’s earlier observation that potential boyfriends are so scattered they are all, but one, scattered off the plot.
Eventually Excel told me that it was ‘the way of the world’ that a Wendy should be single. The Pluto world. Pluto rules my astrological sign. Pluto has recently been demoted from planetary status. Pluto’s probably in therapy to deal with the psychological impact of demotion rather than wasting time effecting change in my life.
Excel concluded by saying it’s not my fault and I should consider an insurance policy to protect myself from things that are not my fault.
* Syzygy is apparantly the shortest word including three ys in the English language. It’s a new word for my scrabble playing repetoire.
5 of your thoughts on Excel said so. Pluto is unsure.
Mar 16 2006
This Excel bar chart told me that silver cars have superior braking-distances to brown cars when driving behind LooSea.
Who would have guessed?
write the first thought on braking distances vary with car-colour
Mar 12 2006
They all scattered off the plot. Except one
2 of your thoughts on potential boyfriend scatterplot
Mar 07 2006
This psychic chart says that I will buy a new laptop in the 3rd week of March after a tax rebate. It predicts I will be happy and not worry about maintaining a terminal-Tinkerbell.
It’s amazing how clever Excel is at telling us the way things will be.
I call it the ‘Excel Oracle Effect” (eOe). Excel has predicted that I will be using it to solve 73% of the tricky questions in my life. The first 9% of these will be covered in the next project: a ‘boyfriend application generation and classification’ chart.
Pie chart or Scattergram? What do you think?
4 of your thoughts on Excel told me to do it
