Alex Guilford

I think it was both interesting and important to learn that data analytics can be used in every industry to optimize and improve business processes and decisions. Similarly, most analytics techniques are the same across industries, so having this background is important no matter what company you work for. Although I thought KPIs and good…[Read more]

I thought that the presentation was great! It was awesome to know just how many different applications visualization has. I think one of the most important take-aways were the ground rules for good visualizations (keeping the audience in mind, using the right type of graphic, use actionable data, etc.) It surprised me that certain data and…[Read more]

Question: During what month do these least number of patients visit the ER? What is the most common visit reason during this month?
Answer: November- difficultly breathing

If I were in charge of data.gov, I would encourage people to create and share visualizations of the data they cared about most. This would encourage collaboration and make the data sets even more readable by non-technical users. The maximize this potential, rewards and incentives could be given to those with the best/ most accurate/ most useful…[Read more]

Yes, you could use this data. Data collected would include resource utilization, productivity, average weekly hours worked, background data, time spent on work activities, time spent on non-work activities, etc. KPIs would include project success rates, time to project implementation, etc.

The Adult Health History form asks for the date of your most recent immunizations for various vaccines. The form asks for this information to evaluate whether you are at risk for contracting a certain disease that has a simple vaccination available. It falls short because unless the patient contacted their previous doctors and was able to receive…[Read more]

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The infographic can be found at: http://dailyinfographic.com/why-americas-healthcare-sucks-infographic

It is a good example because it presents the data in an easy-to-understand way, it enables easy comparison between countries, it includes graphics that make sense given the type of data, and it is organized. In addition, the visualization is…[Read more]

Question: Name one key difference (there are more than one) between an ERD and a schema. For your reference, look at the Relational Modeling slides from last week.

Answer: In an ERD, each entity and its attributes and relationships are drawn out in a graphical display. In a data schema, all of those entities, attributes, and relationships are…[Read more]

Team:
Alex Guilford (alex.guilford@temple.edu)
Asher Halbert (asher.halbert@temple.edu)
Mark Ramacciotti (mark.ramacciotti@temple.edu)

Topic: how NFL player conduct, in terms of arrests/ fines/ suspensions, affects ticket sales and how this can translate to a standard or protocol for reprimanding players in order to maximize ticket sales.

I would consider a completed ERD to be knowledge because it integrates information, context, and insight. The information part of the ERD is the “how our business process works” at the time at which the model was created. The ERD also has insight into what types of relationships exist between the entities and what attributes are characteristics of…[Read more]