From c259035bbbbb2006bc88dadac264060ff35d7d46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Sancho Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:05:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix post links --- posts/20180713-business_interfaces.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/20180713-business_interfaces.html b/posts/20180713-business_interfaces.html index 9da960e..47536b6 100644 --- a/posts/20180713-business_interfaces.html +++ b/posts/20180713-business_interfaces.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: erp, data, interface, business

Nowadays every business uses in its daily activities a lot of business or management programs, as ERPs, CRMs, accounting, inventory, management of virtual shops, etc. And long before the "office" companies, the factories started, with control systems for machines, wagons, rails control and more automatisms. We can say that there isn't a process in a business without a program assigned to control it.

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We can expand it with concepts like Big Data and Machine Learning, turning many of the business processes into pure automatic processes, and others into relatively simple processes to manage.

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We can expand it with concepts like Big Data and Machine Learning, turning many of the business processes into pure automatic processes, and others into relatively simple processes to manage.

All these systems are, in essence, mathematical equations and formulas that calculate results based on inputs. They are responsible for transforming data, passing it from a raw structure to something that makes sense for the business and drives it, and provides useful information to improve it.

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But in this transformation, users have lost much more than it seems, they have lost their power.

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I was very surprised when I discovered that many mathematicians and scientists work directly with Python and Jupyter Notebook. They work with a text console, although with many more features than fifty years ago, and they can visualize tables, graphics, rich text, etc. It's true that their profile is relatively close to the programmers one, but even so, it's surprising that they prefer the "rudeness" of the console to visual programs.

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I was very surprised when I discovered that many mathematicians and scientists work directly with Python and Jupyter Notebook. They work with a text console, although with many more features than fifty years ago, and they can visualize tables, graphics, rich text, etc. It's true that their profile is relatively close to the programmers one, but even so, it's surprising that they prefer the "rudeness" of the console to visual programs.

And then, I realized that the most valued program in any office is not the latest fashion ERP; on the contrary, the most valued is the white grid of the spreadsheet. As for mathematicians, the possibility of creating, of using the power of the machine up to its limit, is the most valued by any professional. Maybe, when you are starting from scratch, gentle interfaces may help a lot, but after, users want to go further, they want to break the barrier between the program and the human and do incredible things that otherwise they couldn't do it.

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