Category: Petroluem Industry

  • Data Wrangling

    I really like the term “Data Wrangler”.   It’s the best title I can give to those people in charge of working with large amounts of data that is often messy and poorly formatted.  The proper term is “Data Analyst” and more and more it seems to imply dealing with large amounts of data.  Big data. …

  • Getting Paid On Time

    In case you haven’t heard, there’s a slump in the oil prices around my neck of the woods. Alberta, Canada that is. Frankly I haven’t a clue what the prices are doing around the world. It’s been quite a while since I was working directly in the oil patch. My go-to source was “The DOB”,…