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Can you derive wisdom from a spreadsheet?  

There are alternative definitions of wisdom, but my working definition is “the ability to use knowledge, experience and understanding to make good decisions.”  Over the course of my life, I have used spreadsheets to sift through the noise and clutter of life to make many decisions.

My father would sit at a table in our living room handwriting paper spreadsheets with a mechanical calculator and pencil. He did not have much data to work with, but he did have business acumen to craft spreadsheets that helped synthesize the data he did have into useful information to make decisions.  

Today, we have powerful electronic spreadsheets and supporting software tools.  We also have nearly boundless amounts of data readily available to whoever wants to search for it, but crafting data into useful information still requires a certain acumen built up over a lifetime.

My name is Richard Cervisi. I have engineering degrees from UC Berkeley and MIT and predictive analytics certificates from UC Irvine. My career was in the aerospace industry, however my passion now involves data analytics. How to use data to understand the past and predict the future.

This website is the landing spot for my thoughts and opinions based on data. Data that has populated many spreadsheets to help me process what is happening in our world. From politics to the stock market to real estate.