Clark W Dumblauskas

The most important takeaway from this class is that data is a very quickly growing field with almost limitless possibilities. Getting into the field of Big Data will open up a load of opportunities and new experiences to learn. If I had to explain what this class was about to someone else, I would say that it is an introduction to the world of…[Read more]

For Magic Cards:
Rows: Individual Cards
Columns: Mana cost, type, Rules text, artist

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-rated-every-rotation-in-mlb-how-does-your-teams-stack-up/
In this article, statistics about baseball teams are created and used to show what teams could be considered the “best”. more specifically, the article used a “Pitcher Score” in order t rank the teams, and judge how good a team’s rotation is. This…[Read more]

A KPI that I use every day is an app that tracks how many calories I eat each day. It’s specific because I am allowed to eat a specific amount of calories per day. It’s measurable because calories are a unit of measurement. It’s achievable because it is possible to eat the amount of calories per day that I assign for myself. It’s relevant because…[Read more]

I have indeed made one of the mistakes listed in “Stupid Data Corruption Tricks”. I don’t have much experience with working with data, but in all of the times that I have I have never made a backup of my data. At my level, the slip up doesn’t really matter as none of my data mattered, but it could quickly become a much larger problem as I sta…[Read more]

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/modern-on-sale

This article discusses the prior and expected future prices of cards from the card game “Magic: The Gathering” based upon an upcoming set of cards. The article draws from data collected over the years, and uses it and past trends withing the data to estimate where the prices will go next, and…[Read more]

I think that the most important principal is “ask why”. I believe this because all of the data in the world would be useless without knowing why he data is presenting in the way that it is. Without being able to analyze the data and realizing the driving factors behind it, nothing can be done to reliably manipulate the data and use it to further…[Read more]

The biggest takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s presentation is that data is present and essential for all professions in the world. He asked the class if they could name a single profession that did not involve some sort of data, and no one could come up with one, proving his point. He then went on to talk about the different things he had done at…[Read more]

1. Americans’ experiences with data security

The article “Americans and Cybersecurity” reports that most Americans have experienced some kind of data breach. I am an actuarial science major, so this risk could be related to something in my line of work. Additionally, I have information online behind pas…[Read more]

One piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is “Don’t sit too close to the television, it’ll damage your eyes”. This is a statement that has been around for a long time, but does not have any evidence supporting it. In order to test this piece of conventional wisdom, I would gather data about the eyesight of people, and how close of far…[Read more]