Daniel H Crossan

I think the most important take away from this course is that data is everywhere and you can observe data everywhere. I also didn’t know about the open data sources that can be accessed online. This is a very helpful source of information

For Snapchat:

Rows would be people that i snap chat or people thats on my contact list
The columns would be the number of times i snap them in a week, month and year. Also some usfull information would be how long the average snap is to that specific person.

The members in our group are:
Noah Herman
Danny Crossan
Joseph Moreira
Thuy (Fiona) Ta
Katherine Murawski
The subject of our group is how the increase in tuition costs correlates to rising student financial aid.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-comcast-mobile-idUSKBN1781Q7

This article is about how Comcast has entered into the wireless communication business. This is interesting because this will totally disrupt the wireless market because Comcast can offer packages for their cable services and wireless services. This will incentive customers to have…[Read more]

A KPI i use in my everyday life is my Charles schwab brokerage account. It tells me how im preforming in my stock portfolio relative to the market. It follows the smart criteria because it is specific measurable, attainable, Relevant to real world, and time phased.

In my previous internship I was assigned a task to pull all the clients with all their information. This entailed a lot of fields and columns in excel. I made the mistake of working on this document without ever saving it. One day I was in a rush to leave work and forgot to save the file on my drive. That night the tech restarted all computers and…[Read more]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/2/14788218/5g-mwc-2017 5G: (Super Fast Data, throttled by reality.)

I choose this article because it describes how our technology have been advance at such a fast pace. The ability to connect to 5g will revolutionize our connection as a whole. The new speeds will allow users to download at a rate of 10 gigbits per…[Read more]

I believe that the compare principle is the most important. This is because one set of data is very limited in what you can derive from it. If you have multiple sets of data that relates to one issue you then can form a hypothesis relating to the problem. Multiple sets of data helps people compare factors that they may never have compared. Lastly,…[Read more]

One Key takeaway from Maurice that stuck with me was that data is essential to our world now. Everywhere we go data is present and it can be utilized and leveraged to anyone’s use. Data plays a crucial role in business now because they use it to reach the consumer faster and more efficiently. After Maurice discussed his experience at QVC it came…[Read more]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/blockchain-sees-data-security-potential-in-singapore/

This article describes how the technology “blockchain” has changed the way data is transferred and received.This new technology has changed the processes for many companies including the Tech giant IBM. This technology allows for safe transfer of data and correct…[Read more]

Conventional Wisdom Statement: Cooking for yourself at home rather then eating at a restaurant is healthier. A way to test this is to survey people that eat at a restaurant for at least one meal a day and check the status of their health (weight, medical conditions etc.). Then I would do the same test on people that only cook for themselves at…[Read more]