Adam Yoosufali

Yesterday throughout social media and news sources I learned that it was Equal Pay Day, very interesting and a good social talk. Interesting enough I found an article named Equal Pay Day: a wage gap fact check, and the author Mona Chalabi investigates Equal Pay Day. She says, “That date is symbolic – it shows roughly how many days of 2017 women n…[Read more]

Having experience using excel and having to learn how to use it you definitely come across problems. For instance, I had a hard time with VLOOKUP, which was utilized quite frequently and if it’s not exact it won’t work. Also a good habit is to always do a full backup, it saves a lot of time if anything occurs. Also to avoiding missing data types,…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/sep/23/older-americans-vote-republican-fact-check-election-2016

This article is about a polling about American voters, their age, and which party they most likely belong in. It talks about how older Americans are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat, which I figured due to having more…[Read more]

In my opinion, of the 8 core principles that Hoven talks about I feel as if “be skeptical” is the most important. Currently there is too much false data and news where it is hard not to remain skeptical from my point of view. You have to make sure your information is correct and unbiased, it is very easy to skew data to make it one-sided. I…[Read more]

http://www.twittearth.com

This website is comprised of visualizations based on social media and data. TwittEarth says that it provides a global image mapping twitter activity. It brings live feeds of twitter with a map of the world, which is super interesting to see tweets pop up all over the world. Now you can easily communicate and see news…[Read more]

https://opendata.socrata.com/Business/Top-5-000-Companies-from-INC-com/n4ex-cets
I looked at a data set of the Top 5,000 Companies from INC.com. On this data set it shows the rank, company, where it is located, what industry it is in, and what the growth and revenue are. I find this very interesting and important especially if you are in the…[Read more]

Conventional wisdom can be defined as the theories or knowledge that accepted by most people. What comes to mind when I think about conventional wisdom, is the saying, “Go to college, without higher education you will lack success. Surveys would be helpful to determine the outcome along with researching individuals and comparing success with and…[Read more]