Devon Hill

A data service I use regularly is Twitter. A spreadsheet for Twitter would include rows for the profile picture, tweets, likes, retweets, followers, and columns would include the number of tweets, likes, retweets and followers.

The most important takeaway from this course to me is Tableau. I liked the hands-on aspect of the course because it allows you to get comfortable using other programs which we can use in our other courses and future jobs. If I had to explain to a future MIS0855 scholar what this course was about I would tell them it’s about learning what big data…[Read more]

Educating New Data Experts for the World of Data Management

I find this article interesting because it talks about my generation the Millennials. My generation is going to make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. Our generation is already “tech-savvy” so companies just have to get us on board to do data professional roles.…[Read more]

KPI I use daily is the amount of water I drink each day. I use an app to track how much water I should drink based on my height and weight. This KPI is specific because I have to put in my height and weight and it tells me what a person my size should drink each day. It is measurable in oz, liters etc. it adds up the water as I input it. It is…[Read more]

I have made a few of these excel mistakes during the excel class temples requires you to take. Number 9 copy formulas that use relative coordinates when doing one of the assignments in the excel class. I went to go copy the formula but it stop because of a blank cell so instead of back tracking I just started the assignment over with the backup…[Read more]

https://www.databreachtoday.com/following-disqus-breach-expert-discloses-more-old-breaches-a-10366
The article talks about an old breach from a website called “Disqus” which is a worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities. The breach happen in 2012 and whoever breached the data got information on 17.5 million…[Read more]

I think the most important principle out of the eight from Hoven’s article is Explore. I noticed in class that a lot of the groups picked data visualizations that you were able to interact with. Interactive visuals allow us to explore the visuals more and find new things instead of the visual only answering one question. This also keeps your…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/08/equifax-hack-credit-social-security-helpline-response-criticism
I found this article interesting because it reminded me of the Ashley Madison hack that we talked about in class. Equifax has personal information that can lead to identity theft and potentially destroy people’s life as the Ashley…[Read more]

Conventional wisdom that I have heard is video games make children violent. To test this I would gather a group of children who play violent video games. I would interview the children to see if they are violent before they play the video games. The children will play the video games and then I would interview them after to see if they were…[Read more]