Annual Feedback quantitative analysis

Yes, I am more than 10 years in Intel Electronics and every year I’ve got the annual feedback (called “Focal”). I thought to look at the nature of the work that I am doing by analyzing the semantic data of those documents. From confidentiality reasons I cannot bring parts of it here, but I can show you some quantitative analysis that I ran on the data.

Among various perspectives, I wanted to look at the verbs that are used there to describe my accomplishments (one out of three components together with “strength” and “areas for improvement”). Out of 30 paragraphs (3 each year) and 4.1k words in total, here is the distribution of all top verbs (overall about 200):

The thought was that verbs of accomplishments are the nature of the work. Now, when I look at it, the direction is amazingly correct – this is what I actually did.

Taking “worked” as a baseline (100%), I have calculated the rate for the rest of verbs relatively.

In addition, grouping verbs by their nature (excluding neutral “worked”), I can tell now, precisely how my work looks like:

Know yourself. 🙂

Cellular Automata in excel

Had some time recently while flying from one place to another and played with simple Cellular Automata rules in excel. It is very simple to do – you create a rule within the cell as function of other cells and extend it (you can simply copy/paste) to other cells.

Here, if A2 is equal to B1, we define a value within the cell “Set”, otherwise it remains empty. That’s all.

Now, if we will keep the first row and column empty (let’s call them “boundaries”), while extending the rule to bigger area, we are going to get a beautiful pattern:

Here I took the area of 200×200

The size of the “triangles” are recursive 2N+1 (1,3,7,15,31,63…)

So by very simple rule we have created pretty complex pattern

Now what is interesting that by simple change of the reference cell the pattern complexity can dramatically increase.

If we change the “offset” of the reference cell by one i.e. apply this kind of rule:

We will get the next pattern: