Alison Kline

The most important takeaway from this course for me is the importance of big data. I never realized before taking this class how much big data is present in my every day life. It is present in purchase transactions that I make, websites, apps, social media, and much more. Being able to understand, analyze, and interpret big data is a very…[Read more]

Facebook is a data-driven source that I check and use almost every day. People post and share videos, links, texts, and pictures. Each row would be an individual post. Some of the columns that may appear would be the name of the person who posted it, the type of post (whether it be a video, picture, text, etc.), whether the post was an original…[Read more]

This article describes how British consumer morale about the outlook of the economy has been decreasing since Britain left the EU in June. This sentiment is based on data that shows how annual pay growth has fallen 0.7 percent in the…[Read more]

Alison Kline, Jibreel Murray, Chris Declement, Walter Kirby

A KPI that I use on a regular basis is the log of the hours that I have worked at my job. This is specific because it tells me the exact amount of time that I have worked during each week. It is measurable because it calculates the time I have worked in minutes. It is achievable in that I can make goals as to how many hours I work in a week by…[Read more]

I personally, have never used CRM data as I am new to working with big data and excel. However, I have made mistake #3 a few times when writing essays in Microsoft Word by not saving my work periodically through writing and losing my work because I hadn’t saved it properly. If I was actually working with CRM data, I feel as though mistake #4 w…[Read more]

This article describes data that analyzed how the health of the euro and the financial crisis in 2008 impacted Euro zones’ bank lending to each other. European Central Bank data shows that cross border lending has decreased significantly within the…[Read more]

I feel as though the most important Principle mentioned in the article is the principle of “asking why”. Any amount of data can be displayed and given to us to view, but if we do not delve into the reason for that data and ask ourselves why we should even care about the data, then there is no point to even looking at it. In order for a…[Read more]

I feel as though the most important takeaway from last week’s discussion on bias is the fact that bias is always there and as long as we are aware of said bias, we can reduce the chance of making a mistake or influencing conclusions when analyzing data. I used the data of various prices when deciding whether to buy Ben and Jerry’s or 7/11 bra…[Read more]

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/02/01/business/01reuters-usa-economy.html?_r=0

This article describes data that proves that the national factory activity has increased to a level higher than it has been at in the past two years. This increase in factory activity indicates an expansion in manufacturing which accounts for 12% of the U.S.…[Read more]

A piece of conventional wisdom that I have always been told is that you should wait at least 30 minutes after eating before going swimming because it can upset your stomach and affect your ability to swim. One could use data to test if there is any truth to this piece of conventional wisdom by conducting two separate studies on the same group of…[Read more]