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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by November 30, on the site 6 years, 10 months ago
Although this class was a gen ed for me I learned a lot of stuff that is important in my major. As a communications a major, we look at a lot of data when creating advertisements or when finding out information about a brand. The most important take away from this class is having clean data. Before this course I kind of just assumed that if data…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by November 16, on the site 6 years, 11 months ago
Amazon is an app I am constantly using to buy things on the go. I would put the items bought in the rows and in the columns I would put information such as: price, amount of time the item remained in the buyers cart, date of purchase, the delivery time, information on whether or not the buyer wrote a review, and if the item was kept or returned.
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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 9, on the site 6 years, 11 months ago
http://results.regattatiming.com/backoffice/webpages/staticRaceResults.jsp?raceId=429 This is the results page from the Princeton Chase regatta about two weeks ago. This is important data to me because my team and I look at this data to see how we compared to other teams that showed up and how teams performed this year versus last year. Race…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by October 26, on the site 6 years, 11 months ago
One example of KPI I use daily is the battery percentage on my phone. It is specific because it tells me as the battery falls or rises even just 1%. It is measurable because the percentage ranges from 0-100%. This is a very time based feature because if I know that my phone battery is starting to run low, I can alter how much I am using it. This…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by October 19, on the site 6 years, 12 months ago
I think the most important data corruption trick to do it back up your data before you start to sort it. I feel that data is usually found to be corrupt during the process of organizing it. If you have a back up of the data it is easy to go back and look through the data to figure out what part was changed incorrectly, whether data got deleted,…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by October 12, on the site 7 years ago
http://www.sprc.org/sites/default/files/migrate/library/SuicideAmongCollegeStudentsInUS.pdf
This data set published by Suicide Prevention Resource Center shows data about suicide amount college and university students in the United States. After the most recent suicide at the University of Pennsylvania, I wanted to take a deeper look at this…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
The most important principle is Simplify. We have all been in the position when we look at data and we don’t know where to start. If too much information is being displayed, it is difficult for the viewer to be able to analyze the data. If the creator keeps the data simple, it helps the viewer to understand what is important in the data and helps…[Read more]
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Cassidy Lorenz posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905145548.htm
This article settles the debate between cell phone use and neurological problems in children. As we learn more about the technology around us, many people create ideas that this technology, radioactive waves in particular, are harmful to our mind and bodies. This research shows…[Read more] -
Cassidy Lorenz posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
Often in life people tell us that if your plan in life isn’t working, you should change directions and try something else instead. Although many people follow this rule of life, I am a big believer in following your goals and dreams until you reach them. I believe that even if you don’t hit your intended end goal, you can still learn a lot about…[Read more]