-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
In my opinion, the most important takeaway I gained from this course is how abundant data is in the world. Organizations and individuals produce and processes large amounts of data on a daily basis in order to make various decisions. These decisions can be as small as a student looking for a place to eat by using Yelp or as big as a country using…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
I recently registered for classes through Temple’s Banner. If I imagined the data related to my schedule onto a spreadsheet, I think each row would represent a class with columns that specify the day of the class, the time during the day, amount of students registered for the class, name of the teacher, and prerequisite classes.
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
The article “Why We Don’t Know How Much Sexism Is Hurting Clinton’s Campaign” from FiveThirtyEight caught my eye because it discusses the role of gender in elections, it cites surveys and previous U.S elections about the role of sex in running for office, and concludes that measuring how sexism affects Clinton is difficult due to the nature of how…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 7 years, 12 months ago
Grade point average is a KPI that many students consider to be a good indicator to how well they are preforming in school. GPA is specific: it is a measure for how well a student is preforming in all of his or her classes. It is measurable, a GPA is a number that is calculated from the grades a student gets in a class and with the amount of credit…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by October 19, 2016, on the site 8 years ago
I think the most common mistake made by Excel novices, including myself, is copying formulas that use relative coordinates; this happens way too often for those who do not use Excel extensively. I recently made this mistake when I was creating a spreadsheet of my expenses for a financing class: I found myself adding and deleting rows of…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
An article that I found interesting and cites many sources of data is Nate Silver’s article on FiveThirtyEight about the affects of the recently discovered controversial recording of Donald Trump on his chances of winning the election. I find the article interesting because I think that the presidential election of 2016 itself is very scandalous…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
The most important principle out of the eight given in the Hoven article would be “explore.” Data visualization isn’t effective if it bores the end user. Humans are curious by nature, and its important to allow people to able to discover on their own. “Explore” and “ask why” are very similarly related in this case, since “ask why” relates to why…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
In my opinion, the most important point made in last week’s class is how we can indirectly create bias by collecting data in such a way that misrepresents a demographic or group. This is easy to overlook because it is easy to believe that everyone has a phone or internet access, just because the people around you do. In the article written by…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/12/ford-motors-self-driving-car-uber-google
The article that I found refers to the new market for self-driving cars. Self driving cars rely heavily on machine learning and statistical analysis so that engineers can further improve self-driving AI. The article refers to Tesla’s data colection from…[Read more] -
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
A data set that I thought was interesting was “Indego Bike Share Trips” found on opendataphilly.org. (https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/indego-bike-share-trips) It’s really interesting because a lot of useful and relevant data is included in the data set. As a student, having a cost-effective alternative to a car is very important to have.…[Read more]
-
Brian T Abraham posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
There has been an increasing demand in for higher education as parents urge children to go to college after high school, believing that college will facilitate a successful future for their children; however, I don’t think this is always the case. College isn’t for everyone, but as more and more high school seniors adopt collegiate pride and…[Read more]