Courtney Wilson

The most important takeaway that I have learned in this class is the usefulness of displaying data. We have learned that data can be found anywhere so it applies to every single major. But how the person chooses to display the data is important. There are so many ways to do so between Tableau and Excel. Displays of data can be useful in future…[Read more]

A data driven service that I use regularly is Apple Music. A row in the spreadsheet could represent each artist in Apple Music. The columns in the spreadsheet can be how many songs, how many albums, genre(s), rankings (ie #3 on the pop charts) and also how many total streams they have gotten.

A KPI that I use on a regular basis is the battery percentage on my phone and laptop. Being a college student, most of time I use my phone and laptop throughout the whole day.
Specific: showing my personal percentage
Measurable: the percentage goes from 1% to 100%
Achievable: rechargeable
Relevant: it shows how much or little I’ve been on…[Read more]

Almost like everyone else, I have made mistake number 7. When working with a handful of data, it is so easy to mix up values with references to other data sources. Although, my mistake wasn’t exactly like how the article described; one time I was working on a column that was meant for “Names”, however the column next to it was for “School”. A lot…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-does-a-typical-sexual-harasser-look-like-we-dont-know/

This article is about how we can’t really identify what a sexual harasser would look like due to lack of data on sexual harassment. As most may know, most sexual harassment cases do not get reported. Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology stated,…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/has-nfl-play-gotten-worse-or-is-it-just-you/

We learned in the first day of class, that data is everywhere. That is exactly what I liked about this article – it was about the most random thing but it was actually relevant to my life. Unfortunately, I am a Giants fan. If you click the first link, it shows…[Read more]

A conventional wisdom usually believed is that “a college degree means you will have a good job and career”. To test this, I can collect ask a large group of college graduates how many are employed or unemployed. I would collect data from the amount of people that have a college degree versus the amount of people that have a college degree and are…[Read more]