Anthony G Brusco

The most important thing to take away from this class is how data comes into play in our lives everyday and how it will be sufficient to know the in’s and out’s of data for our future jobs. I would explain to a future MIS0855 student that this class is crucial in order to learn how to work with different kinds of data and how it can be useful when…[Read more]

I feel that the most important of the 8 Core Principles of Data Visualization is Explore. In order to truly understand the data we must delve into the data of what we are studying and not just looking at the simplicity of it. With the option to explore we might just in fact find other data that we did not know existed and we can more information…[Read more]

One important fact that I took away from Maurice Whetstone’s presentation was his own philosophy “Trust but Verify”. This is a very key concept since not all data can be trusted and the facts behind it must be confirmed. In order to fully trust a source of data it is often good to test that data to see if it comes up in any other instances in…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-panthers-first-half-blowouts-are-unprecedented/

What is interesting about the article is that the data observed in this study further broadens by an NFL game being based on the Vegas spread, or better known as a team giving a 50-50 chance to win whether it is they are the +/- points. What stood out to me…[Read more]