Colin Kelly

Sergio Campos, Kira Chumtong, Rahsaam Ray, Junaid Farnum, and myself are working together for our final MIS project. Our data set is coming from the Stats page of the official NBA website. We’re comparing the statistics of the Rookie Players in order to gather information on how they’ll compare to each other.

Personally, I think that the most important takeaway was learning a variety of different techniques to analyze data. This course introduced many ways to get deep information from data sets by managing to use programs Tableau, which allow us to make a many different graphs in order to see data in different ways as well as Excel to be able to filter…[Read more]

A data driven website that I use on a regular basis is Blackboard in order to keep up with how I’m doing in each of my classes. If I were to store the data in a spreadsheet, the rows could be categorized for each specific class that I’m taking. The columns could have information such as the professor’s name, exam grades, assignment grades,…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-job-market-is-pulling-in-people-who-didnt-want-to-work-before/
What caught my attention originally was the title of this article. I thought it was interesting that suddenly a number of people are trying to get into the labor force compared to the number of people who originally left the labor force due to a…[Read more]

A KPI that I use on a regular basis is how long I’m able to run on a treadmill while at the gym. It’s specific because it provides me with a time for how long I’m able to run, and it’s measurable because the treadmill keeps track of the distance I ran as well as how long it took me to run that distance. It is achievable because my using that…[Read more]

I’ve never run into any of the problems listed in the article because I don’t really use Excel too much, but I think the most important is obviously not making a backup of a file. Computers and technology as a whole can have problems all the time and you may very well run into a problem in the middle of nowhere that ends up either corrupting your…[Read more]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/19/us-consumer-price-index-jan-2016.html
As a business major, this article in particular interested me as it’s about our economy in general. This article mentions that how in January of this year, many costs for things such as rent and medical necessities are beginning to rise. The U.S. Consumer Price Index has risen…[Read more]

Of the eight different core principles, I think that the most important one is the idea of “Simplify.” It’s incredibly important to make sure that any data you attempt to show is easy to understand so that the main purpose of your data is able to be noticed right away. If the data is too complex or isn’t organized in a simple-to-understand way,…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most interesting topic from the discussion last week was how often bias can be found in reviews. After searching for reviews about a couple of different places on Yelp (such as Temple, restaurants, and my previous place of employment) I’ve noticed that there was many reviews that had either a one star review or a five star…[Read more]

What we should really be watching: Finance/Accounting

This article is interesting to me, because although I’m currently an Undecided Business major, I’ve been leaning towards Accounting. It talks about different types of analytic tools that Accountants have been developing in order to help track data…[Read more]

The dataset that I came across has most interesting was the dataset about the Federal Student Loan Program. I found this data on http://www.data.gov (http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/federal-student-loan-program-data). I thought this data was interesting, because now being a college student, it’s important to see all the different types of financial aid…[Read more]

One conventional wisdom statement that I have heard pretty frequently is that “You get what you pay for.” This statement implies that if you buy cheap products, you can expect cheap quality, and if you buy more expensive products, you’ll get more out of it. This isn’t necessarily true as more expensive products could just have more advertising. In…[Read more]