Benjamin Bucceri

The most important takeaway from this class was the introduction to the importance and impact of data. Not everyone may use tableau moving forward in their careers, but learning how impactful data can be, how to spot bad data, or understanding the relationships between data and users will be relevant in everyone’s careers. I would tell someone…[Read more]

A data driven service that I use is Aamazon. In Excel each column would be a category related to the order which would include data such as a unique identifier like “OrderID”, and then supplementary data such as “Price”, “Quantity”, “Order Total”, “CustomerName” and so on. Each row would fill in this necessary data.

Subject: home court advantage in college basketball – is the home team more likely to win? Does playing at home significantly affect offensive or defensive statistics of either team?
Group: Ben Bucceri, Sai Gangisetty, Daishaun Grimes, Alex Fortebuono, Imani West

http://www.nbc12.com/story/35113409/gamestop-investigates-possible-data-breach

This article details a recent data breach suffered by GameStop, a video game retailer. The company’s website was hacked and the credit card information of its customers was believed to be put up for sale on a website. The article discusses the different ways you can…[Read more]

Probably the most common KPI we interact with while in college is our GPA. Our grade point average measures our academic performance in class. It is specific because it is specific and measurable as it takes the averages of the grades earned in your class. It is achievable because you can make improvements to your studying habits to improve your…[Read more]

I have done Number 10, “Open a CSV file directly into Excel”, many times without even knowing it could cause problems. I suppose in those prior situations the data I was working with wasn’t large enough where scientific notation kicked in, but it is good to know this tip to avoid in the future.

Cloudflare Data Leak: How to Protect Your Personal Data

This article talks about the rising threat of personal information loss through data leaks and how users can protect themselves from falling victim to it. The California based company Cloudware had data leaked from their servers this past week and anyone who has…[Read more]

Simplify is the most important principle because if the visualization is complicated then the information and message of the data can be lost. It doesn’t matter how good your information is, if you can’t visualize it simply then the information is worthless. Graphics are meant to be one of the simplest forms of communication, so if you are…[Read more]

Personally I’ve seen data analytics affect the professional sports industry the most, with a particular emphasis on professional baseball. The “analytics age” has seen professional teams rely on data more and more than traditional human scouting. Whether or not this is a good thing is purely an opinion, but with books/movies like 2011’s…[Read more]

How You Can Protect Customer Data and Keep Customers Safe

This is an interesting article because it discusses the moral obligation of businesses to protect customer data. Data protection is a hot topic nowadays because of the increasing risk of a customer’s personal information being stolen by hackers. The article discusses though that not…[Read more]

One conventional wisdom I have heard is that marijuana users are lazier or less productive than non-marijuana users. Users of the drug are thought to be employment liabilities which is why the drug is screened for in pre-employment drug tests along with other harsher, addictive drugs. This conventional wisdom could be tested by comparing the work…[Read more]