Drew A Holt

My experience at DecisivEdge was nothing but positive. Everyone there was great to work with and I was extremely happy with my contributions to the company. Being my first IT internship, I was not sure what to expect from this summer, but this internship exceeded all of my expectations. I learned a lot about communication, technology, and working…[Read more]

During my internship, I have done a lot of work with Microsoft SQL Server. My experience from MIS 2502: Data Analytics has really helped me with this work. Moving from My SQL Workbench to Microsoft SQL Server was a pretty easy transition, but having the basic knowledge of SQL really helped me pick the work up quickly. Since I already knew the…[Read more]

Although my internship was during the summer, I am also working during the school year. I am an ITA for Carey O’Donnell’s MIS 2101 course. Along with this teaching assistant position and my classwork, I am currently looking for an internship. The things I focus on most when trying to balance all of this are routines and organization. Having a…[Read more]

I think the most important skill that I have developed since the start of my internship is being able to analyze an assignment and figure out what I need to do and what I need to know. In the beginning of my internship, I would listen to the instructions or what my assignment was and take notes. After that I would go back to my desk and begin…[Read more]

Hello everyone! My name is Drew Holt. This summer I interned at a company called DecisivEdge. DecisivEdge is a technology services and consulting company based out of Newark, DE. While there, I spent four weeks in each of the three divisions of the company. I worked in the Business Optimization, Technology Strategy and Solutions Delivery, and…[Read more]

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The most important takeaway from this class, for me, has been understanding the way that data is used in daily life. Data and information drawn from it is the reasoning behind everything we do from marketing, to exercising, to major business decisions. Data usage is growing and soon every person might have a personal database.

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-week-in-college-football-more-than-just-alabama-lsu/

This article shows percentage of projected outcomes for the top 25 college football teams. It is interesting to see who they are picking for the college football playoff and they also give the percentage chance of each team to win their division. They…[Read more]

A KPI I use here at Temple is the number of meal swipes and Diamond Dollars I have left. These both fit into the SMART criteria. They are specific in that there aren’t too many ways to interpret the data so it’s clear what it is measuring either the amount of swipes I’ve used or the current balance in my Diamond Dollar account. They are both…[Read more]

I haven’t worked with excel too much so I haven’t really had the chance to make any of these mistakes but I think number three, backing up the original, is the most important. By backing up the file, if you make any of these other mistakes and ruin the file, you can just pull up the original spreadsheet and start over. Rather than going back and…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/new-england-patriots-probably-will-not-go-16-0/

This article talks about the New England Patriots likelihood of repeating their 16-0 regular season record of 2007. This article was in response to sports commentator, Skip Bayless, saying that it was “extremely probable” that the patriots would go undefeated for…[Read more]

To me, the most important principle is to be skeptical. A lot of times, we get answers and look no further when often, that answer is incorrect. Sometimes, if we had just questioned the answer a little bit and did some double checking to make sure the answer was right, we might find our mistake before someone else points it out. With data, this is…[Read more]

The biggest thing I took away from Mr. Dagar’s presentation was how powerful data can be when presented correctly. Him talking about how by reorganizing the data and then showing it to the Temple administration, they were able to change policy and make good corrections and accurate predictions for the next year. Hearing that powerful example of…[Read more]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/09/08/4-ways-big-data-will-change-every-business/

The article I chose lists the top four ways that big data will change every business. The author really emphasized that big data isn’t just for executives of large companies, but that it is for all employees and for all businesses of all sizes. It…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom is that the more education you’ve received, the higher your salary will be. This could be determined by gather data on how much schooling a person has received and what their annual income is. I would predict that on average, the people who’ve received more education will have higher salaries.