Caroline Doyle

My example of a KPI that I use on a regular basis is the number of emails I receive every day. This is specific and measurable because it is an exact number of emails and I use my email a lot every day. It is also achievable because I can turn on my notifications to tell me when I get an email, so I can check it frequently throughout the day.…[Read more]

After looking over the “Stupid Data Corruption Tricks” article, I have realized that I have made the sixth mistake, “Miss the data type” many times. In high school I took a computer class which concentrated on applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. During the Excel portion of the year, I made that mistake multiple times, skewing my data…[Read more]

Big Data Lessons From Netflix

I chose this article because I like to watch Netflix during my free time. According to the article, “Netflix considers data visualization to be of paramount importance” and this relates to class because we discussed how data visualizations help effectively show data to consumers.…[Read more]

After re-reading the article titled, “Stephen Few on Data Visualization: 8 Core Principles,” I believe that the sixth step, or the “ask why” step is the most important step. I believe this because it is easy to see what is happening, but without a reasonable explanation to the situation, you cannot find the real reason why the situation is…[Read more]

http://www.football-data.co.uk/englandm.php

This article has everything you need to know about every English soccer game from 1993-2017. The data sets are broken down between seasons as well as between the different leagues each game is played in. There is a free downloadable link that you can click on for each individual year’s league which…[Read more]

One common example of conventional wisdom is that “Fat people are just lazy and have no self-discipline.” It doesn’t matter how much you weigh because there is no correlation between how much a person weighs and how productive he/she is. The definition of the word “fat” is also different from person to person. In order to test this, I would have…[Read more]