Austin Murphy

An important takeaway from this course is the realization that data is everywhere and will only continue to expand in our generation. I would explain this course to a future student as a class that teaches you the many tools and applications of data in our life. I think it is very important to learn how to utilize data because of the massive…[Read more]

A data driven service that I use daily is Snapchat. Snapchat is an app that lets someone send pictures or texts that only last a certain amount of time. Some columns would be amount of snaps sent and received, amount of stories posted, and number of friends. The rows would be each person represented by their specific username in Snapchat.

The subject of our group project is the relationship between population growth and employment growth. The scholars in our group are Austin, Alex, and Melissa.

Moneyball or moneypit? When big data infatuation meets unintended consequences

This article talks about the effect that big data has had on Major League Baseball. Prior to the early 2000 Oakland As team, many baseball teams had not utilized data to develop strategy in games. Instead, they would just pick players based solely on pure talent.…[Read more]

A KPI that I regularly use is keeping track of how much money that I take out of my debit account per day. PNC Bank makes this fairly easy to do through the Virtual Wallet app for iPhone. This follows the SMART criteria because I can set a specific amount of money that I want to spend per day. It is measurable because I can keep track of the funds…[Read more]

Due to my lack of time with Excel prior to this course, I have not made any of these mistakes within that program. However, many of my papers within Word have been corrupted due to me not properly backing them up. For example, during a timed essay my senior year, I had to re-type 400 words because my work had not been properly backed up. I believe…[Read more]

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/news/week-6-fantasy-football-rankings-injuries-dominate-the-headlines-ty-montgomery-marcus-mariota-tom-brady-improve/
Fantasy football is a very important part of my Sunday. I rely heavily on data analytics to decide who I will start or bench week in and week out. For example, companies like CBS and ESPN…[Read more]

I think “ask why” is the most important principle because people would never be able to fix any problems discovered by data analytics if they did not know why a certain trend was persisting. The goal of data and specifically data visualization should be to answer questions and not simply place a prompt in front of you. If businesses and…[Read more]

I see companies such as Fed Ex and UPS benefitting greatly from data science. Data analytics help these companies understand what routes are the fastest and most efficient. UPS is known to take routes that have the least amount of left turns to save time at traffic lights. It may not seem like a big deal, but over a period time, but sitting at a…[Read more]

https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/bike-network/resource/5555de26-d6be-45c4-ba7a-969c313fa1cc
The data set I found is concerned with the bicycle network in Philadelphia. It tells which streets are bicycle friendly, what type of street it is, and the length of the bike lane. I found this data set to be interesting because as I was walking in…[Read more]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/potential-bubbles-in-financial-markets-already-exist-warns-deutsche-bank-ceo.html
Recently, our economy has been soaring to all time highs and things seem great in that aspect of our country. However, we could be creating a disastrous bubble that can pop and leave the economy reeling much like in 2008. I find this…[Read more]

Inner city neighborhoods are typically seen as more “dangerous” than suburban neighborhoods. I believe this picture that is painted in peoples’ minds is largely due to portrayals in the media rather than actual facts. The data that i would collect to help disprove or bring light to this topic would be found mostly in police records. The data I…[Read more]