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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by April 27, 2017, on the site 7 years ago
This class helped me to learn skills with how to deal with data. The class helped me learn how to look through data and clean the bad data which is an important skill. I also learned more effective techniques in excel as well as how to use tableau.
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by April 20, 2017, on the site 7 years ago
For Twitter columns could include Twitter handle, Number of followers, Number of people following, Number of tweets and Number of replies. The rows would then be the data that fits into each column.
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by April 6, 2017, on the site 7 years, 1 month ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-the-home-run-back-will-the-shift-ever-die-and-8-more-burning-baseball-questions/
This article is very interesting because baseball season is starting up this week and the article has to deal with data analysis behind the sport. The article really touches all parts of baseball and the data behind it. The…[Read more] -
Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 23, 2017, on the site 7 years, 1 month ago
An example of a KPI is the measurement of a hockey player’s Corsi. Corsi is the shot differential for NHL players while they are on the ice. Basically shots for versus shots against. I use this very often to help with setting my fantasy hockey lineup because if a player has a higher corsi they are more likely to get shots on goal each night which…[Read more]
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by March 9, 2017, on the site 7 years, 2 months ago
I have never made one of these mistakes but I think it is important to copy formulas that use relative coordinates. If you use the wrong coordinates in your formulas your answers that you get out of the formula will be wrong and mislead your work. The ability to navigate excel is so important to be able to do any type of work inside of excel.
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by March 2, 2017, on the site 7 years, 2 months ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-tops-1-billion-hours-of-video-a-day-on-pace-to-eclipse-tv-1488220851
This article talks about the growth of YouTube. The article states that YouTube just surpassed 1 billion hours off video on their website, with all of those hours of data comes large amounts of data. YouTube deals with such larges amounts of…[Read more] -
Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 7 years, 2 months ago
I believe that all 8 principals are important to data visualizations. However out of those eight principles I really feel that the principal of explore is the most important. Explore makes us use data and explore within it rather than just look for a specific answer. The purpose of data is to find out new things and explore .
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 3 months ago
The presentation Brian gave us was very interesting. I had never heard of the real time auctioning and how it works is pretty amazing. Brian’s talk was very in depth which it had to be because it was the same presentation he used to sell his company to twitter. I had always wondered how something i just viewed on a different site was now an add on…[Read more]
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Timothy Rosenhoover commented on the post, Weekly Question #2: Complete by February 2, 2017, on the site 7 years, 3 months ago
fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-doing-what-he-said-hed-do/
I found this article interesting because it talks about how modest trumps victory was. I really enjoy reading articles that do an data driven analysis of election, I was watching the live data on election night. The article listed data about how trump ranked against the past 25…[Read more] -
Timothy Rosenhoover posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
A example of conventional wisdom would be “Men are better drivers than women”. There are many ways of testing this conventional wisdom, one for exam would be taking data of car crash records and comparing men versus women. There is a problem with this testing because if the data shows that a woman got in a crash you could assume that men are…[Read more]