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Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/updated-odds-of-the-warriors-going-73-9/
This article is about the odds that the Golden State Warriors have to complete the regular season with a record of 73-9 or better. This goal is significant because Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to set the regular season record of 73-9 in the 95-96 season.…[Read more] -
Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
I haven’t made any of these mistakes because I’ve never worked with excel before. From reading the ones listed #2 “What System Am I Logged Into?” is a problem that would be extremely frustrating. This problem reminds me of playing a video game for a long time and neglecting to hit save before the game unexpectedly shuts down. With this problem,…[Read more]
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Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
From the eight principles, I believe asking why is the most important. One can spend all of their time looking at a data visualization that looks pretty or is so simple, but if they don’t understand the message that the data is trying to get across then the data and the visualizations are useless. We use data to better understand a concept and to…[Read more]
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Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
The most important strategy that I took away from our class discussion on the Signal Problem was being able to differentiate the truthful reviews from the bias reviews. About a week ago I was looking online for a place near by to get my haircut. I found Diamond Cutz and looked though a few reviews. Every single review I looked at was very positive…[Read more]
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Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
1. I found a data set that shows the Powerball winning numbers since the beginning of 2010.
2. I found this data set on http://www.data.gov
3. I Thought it was interesting because we recently had the biggest Powerball jackpot in history and I love money.
4. I learned that it seems like some numbers appear more often on winning tickets than…[Read more] -
Brandon K Shaffer posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fivethirtyeights-guide-to-predicting-the-oscars/
All movie watchers love watching the oscars to see which of their favorite actors will win film making’s biggest award. FiveThirtyEight.com developed an “election model” to predict which actors and actresses are most likely to win an award for the category that…[Read more]