Bryan Hua

1. The subject of our group project will be Business and Economics.
2. The scholars in our group include Bryan Hua, Linghang Peng, and Ziran Zhao.

This article was important to me, because the data presented in the article shows how our economy has grown in the third quarter of this year. The writer explains that our economy has been growing modestly, but consistently since last year and he believes that this will…[Read more]

A KPI that could be used on a regular basis is the amount of money that I spend in a certain time period. It is specific and measurable, because there is an exact amount of money that I spend in a time period and I can measure this precisely. It is achievable, because I can either reduce or increase my spending after looking at my expenses. It is…[Read more]

I have made one of the mistakes listed in the articles and it was mistaking the data type. This happened when I was inputting data into excel and I was trying to input dates into Excel, but the program confused it as integers, so I had to change the way I inputted the data. Another mistake I made was not backing up my data or making a copy of my…[Read more]

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/10/02/business/02reuters-usa-stocks.html

The article I read discussed the analysis of the Wall Street Stock Market by utilizing data to compare the prices of stocks and bonds. The data compared the prices of current stocks and bonds to their past prices and determined that prices in the current quarter…[Read more]

I believe that the “Explore” is the most important principle, because it is the point where a person is able to analyze the data and gain more information from the data itself. It is one thing to gather information, but you can only do so much from just gathering data. After gathering the data you need you must explore your data and dig deeper and…[Read more]

In my opinion, I personally believe that most financial companies that deal with stocks are heavily influenced by data science. The stock market is heavily influenced by data science, because investors are constantly searching for data and utilizing that data in order to make a decision on what to do with their respective stocks. Along with this,…[Read more]

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fdic-failed-bank-list
The data set that I found listed FDIC insured banks that have failed between 2000-2014. I found the data set after searching through data.gov. I thought this data set was interesting, because there was a surprisingly high amount of banks that have been closed between 2000-2014. From the data…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/irma-is-bearing-down-on-some-of-floridas-most-vulnerable-residents/
For the past few weeks, hurricanes have been devastating various parts of the United States with some of the most notable including Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Not only do the hurricanes cause significant environmental damage towards…[Read more]

An example of a piece of conventional wisdom is “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. This piece of conventional wisdom assumes that if an individual consumes one apple a day, then it would reduce the frequency of visits to the doctors office, presumably due to the health benefits of eating an apple. A method that could be used to collect the…[Read more]