Carl D Green

One of the most important takeways from this course for me was the ability to analyze and combine sources of data from excel sheets to the tableau software. Not only did we learn about “cleaning data” to make sure everything fits together but also multiple formulas in order to calculate certain fields as well. If I had to explain this course to…[Read more]

A data-driven service that I use regularly is NFL.com Each column could be name of team, overall ranked based on records, # of wins, # of losses, offensive points for, defensive points against, etc. Each row would than consist of the team names followed by some numerical data associated with each column category. For instance, it would show…[Read more]

Income Increased

The data in this article shows that household income has been increasing in multiple groups based upon age, race, household type, and regions. As a combined averaged they said it was an approximate 5.2% increase in all households as a total. Some groups such as the ages of…[Read more]

Group 5

1) Amount of time spent working on group project
2) number of meetings attended
3) Number of resources provided pertaining to the project.

During last week’s discussion, the thing that seemed most important to me was how much effect bias has on a data set. When selecting certain data or choosing variables, more often than not you may make a choice because of some biased decision and not even be aware of it. One example of how I used data to make a decision would be from my fantasy…[Read more]

http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2016/sep/finance-accounting-hiring-201615088.html

The information in this article explains how companies are growing and plan on expanding not only their business plans but also employment as well. According to the article, areas such as revenue, expansions, and profits have all shown an increase over…[Read more]

One example of Conventional Wisdom is that if you work hard you will succeed. Although most people think that working hard will ultimately lead to the success of a given task I believe that this varies depending on the activity. For instance some physical aspects such as hitting a baseball may never become an easy for a person no matter how much…[Read more]