Alex M Fizz

Instagram is a company that uses data with every move it makes. Rows could be an individual’s account address, columns could be the posts that they have, how many followers they have, how many people they follow, etc. This would allow for every user on instagram to have their own “fingerprint” on the service.

From my perspective, the most important takeaway from this course was that data and the information that can be derived from data is extremely valuable to a wide variety of organizations such as businesses and governments. If explaining this course to a future MIS0855 scholar, I would say that it is about how data can be analyzed and understood in…[Read more]

One KPI that I use on a regular basis is hours spent sleeping on average each night. This is specific because I’m able to identify a single quantifiable number to determine my average sleep per night. I can measure this by logging what time I went to bed and what time that I woke up in the morning. Obviously I’m not going to get the same amount of…[Read more]

There have been many times where I have copied formulas that use relative coordinates. Many times I don’t notice that I make this mistake until something else is off in the formulas and I backtrack to the source of the issue. Another common mistake I make is when I copy a column of data cells into another column to “transfer” it, the data types of…[Read more]

The article that I found is on Forbes’ website and is about how big data is helping us to predict almost everything imaginable. I think that it’s really fascinating how we are able to use big data to make predictions and use those predictions to identify future potential problems and therefore potential solutions to those problems. For example,…[Read more]

The article that I found is on Forbes’ website and is about how big data is helping us to predict almost everything imaginable. I think that it’s really fascinating how we are able to use big data to make predictions and use those predictions to identify future potential problems and therefore potential solutions to those problems. For example,…[Read more]

I believe that the most important core principle of data visualization in Hoven’s article is the principle of simplification. I think that this principle is the most important because the simplification of the visualization is what allows the viewer to not have to think about what the visualization is about or how it works. The viewer is simply…[Read more]

I think that the most important takeaway from last week’s discussion on bias and the Signal problem is that not all data can be trusted and we cannot assume that there is no influence of bias in the data. Recently, I was getting food at Johnson and Hardwick dining hall and came across the pizza. The dining hall at the time was fairly busy, but…[Read more]

The data set that I found is called the College Scorecard made by the Department of Education on the website data.gov. I think that it is an interesting data set because with it, it allows the user to easily search for colleges based on program, location, size, name, and other advanced search options. Once the user clicks on an individual school,…[Read more]

Article: https://hbr.org/1976/11/how-effective-managers-use-information-systems

I like this article because it does not only describe what Information Systems are, it describes the uses of these information systems and how they can be used and made more effective by businesses. I found it very interesting how the efficiency of using these…[Read more]

Many people say one’s behavior is highly influenced by their environment. There are an infinite amount of ways to show and prove examples of this. There are many aspects of one’s behavior that can be influenced by their environment such as accent, fashion style, music genres, hobbies, etc. If I were to support this through data science, I could…[Read more]