Month: March 2021

How Long is Too Long?: Cannabis Shelf Life

by Mark Nassi, 3/31/21

Think about the pantry or spice rack in your home. Do you have any products or spices you don't know exactly how old they are? I'm guilty of this, so I assume others are as well. In my family, the garlic, basil, and oregano get cycled pretty well. But I couldn't tell you how old the marjoram, mustard or carraway is. Would I ever use those again? Probably. I'm not exactly America's Top Chef™. I am a gardener, though. I love harvesting my vegetables and herbs and... Read More >

Planning, Improving and Evolving With Agile Development

by Dani Berger, 3/24/21

Imagine you just purchased a home. It's nearly new, but there are still several improvements and refinements you'd like to make. As time passes, the list is continuously changing and evolving. Before long, it seems that you are constantly working on a project and planning for the next. Continually making home improvements is not that much different from using the agile development process to enhance the NCS Platform. The NCS Platform is a web-based application, and our team of developers and analysts are always hard at work... Read More >

The Effect of Big Data

by Paige Reimers, 3/10/21

The term "Big Data" often brings notions of the more, the better. But as the volume and the number of available datasets have grown over the last two decades, the consumers of Big Data have started to feel the ramifications. When big data gets too big, it can become unwieldy; it's too much to review, often unorganized, or doesn't have analytical power to evaluate it. One of the original definitions of Big Data (Gartner, 2001) is "data that contains greater variety arriving in increasing volumes... Read More >

Modeling Snow Forecasts: Is There A Superior Method?

by Will Krebs, 3/3/21

Looks like this year’s La Niña dry weather pattern isn’t going to be ruining anybody’s ski season. Last weekend, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort saw upwards of 30 inches of snow, leading to some incredible days to ski there. Unfortunately, I have been sidelined with a fractured kneecap and torn MPFL, but for anyone who had the foresight to plan for it, the weekend of 2/6 may have been 2021’s best thus far. Skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts are always chasing after those coveted “pow days”. Unless you live within a few miles of a ski resort, you’re most likely... Read More >