Book Review: Leading with AI and Analytics
Nat reviews a new book, Leading with AI and Analytics: Build Your Data Science IQ to Drive Business Value, by Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.
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Outdoor Dining? This Is A Building With Four Walls And A Roof!
Restauranteurs are finding it hard to figure out how to adapt to the winter months.
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MPSC December Meeting: Neighborhood-Level Equity and Energy
Dr. Tony G. Reames of the University of Michigan, Briana Parker of Elevate Energy, and others presented at an MPSC meeting on some approaches to the question of equity in energy efficiency for low-income communities and communities of color.
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Facing A Crisis of COVID, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs
COVID19 is exposing a particularly ugly nexus between energy insecurity and housing insecurity, referred to in a few separate presentations at a recent workgroup meeting of the Michigan Public Service Commission.
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Yum Village Will Bring The Fire In Detroit’s Takeout Dining Scene This Winter
Experience all three dimensions of Yum Village– and then get you some jerk chicken.
Read MoreThe Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times
In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music
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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions
The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.
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Postcards from Des Moines: A Trip To RAYGUN
Returning from Minneapolis and on a roundabout, triangular route to Dubuque, I stopped into RAYGUN, the Midwest’s favorite t-shirt shop,
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Trillion-Dollar Company: “Have You Considered Doing A Free Internship?”
Someone from one of the world’s largest corporations suggested that maybe my best bet is to do an unpaid internship. We’re still doing that in 2020?
Read More2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales
COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.
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