Anshuman Jha

My most important takeaway from this course is the way data analytics have influenced the decision-making process in today’s world. Also, it is important to present the analyzed data visually in such a way that is easy to understand, coveys the information properly, and visually appealing.

My take away from last week’s speakers’ presentation was that how different infographic can infer different information. So, it is very important to choose the right infographic to present the information

1) Dart mart example: information regarding no. of employees completed a particular certification.
Parameters: Department, Job titles, and number of attempts

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If I were Data.gov, I would have focused on making people and organisations aware of Data.gov and its usefulness. Having a marketing plan would help Data.gov increase its presence.

Yes Shriya, I agree with you. I would like to add on to the list of KPIs by including frequency of promotions, history of meeting the deadlines, past experience of performing in a crunch situation. Also, I would give more emphasis on applicant’s ability to work for mission critical projects, more than usual projects; by comparing the visibility of…[Read more]

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In my last organization, evaluations were based on SMART. Task allocations were done very specifically. Then, progress was checked based on percentage completion of each of the tasks. Performance evaluations used SMART technique; What specific tasks are assigned, how to measure the progress toward attainment of the goal, how realistically…[Read more]

In any sports:
Leading indicator: practice time, player health
Lagging indicator: game-score

2014 FIFA World Cup

This gives a lot of information but in a very clear way. As we have seen in our last class, infographics become very confusing when there is a lot of information.

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2) ERD is just a representation of various entities and relationships between them. Whereas, an actual database contains schema. Moreover, ERD just shows the how different entities should be related; whereas schema contains actual tables along with relationships between them.

2) I would consider ERD as information. ERD gives us an idea about how and in what manner different entities are related. Also, the characteristics of each of the entities. So, overall it is a very useful tool in the understanding the whole framework on the database. Someone can just look at a complete ERD and understand business logic. Also, ERD…[Read more]