Edward Gruchacz

One data driven service i use constantly is Google. Google is a great source of information for which I identify the many questions that plague me daily. I would love to see a history of google searches that I have broken down by day, so I can identify if one day where I use google I am more likely to use google on that same day. I think I would,…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/unc-played-ugly-enough-to-win/

So this article was interesting to me because I watched the whole championship game between Gonzaga and UNC, and boy was it ugly. Between the fouls and the overall poor fg% as the article points out, it made the game slow, choppy and difficult to watch. Like the author noted,…[Read more]

I have made the mistake before of not including the word “false” as the 4th vlookup parameter. It was for a personal finance class and we were pulling information out of a grocery list. I just remember it not working when I initially tried and then had a classmate come over and we figured out the false was missing. To this day still do not…[Read more]

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/late-winter-heatwave-hits-us-february

This article talks about the latest “winter heatwave” to hit the central and eastern areas of the United States. This is interesting to me cause this heatwave has been great, have spent a lot of time outside, but it also makes me wonder whether this is…[Read more]

I believe that the “Explore” is the most important principle of data visualization. I think this because I believe that the human brain works best when it is allowed to interpret and question free of constraints. If we wanted our data to be simply a message that the reader is supposed to understand we would use simple text, but since we are trying…[Read more]

One piece of conventional wisdom I’ve heard is “no pain, no gain.” While this is a phrase used in a multitude of contexts, for my purposes Ill be testing out workouts that result in delayed onset muscle soreness, aka “the pain”, and compare them to workouts that do not cause delayed onset muscle soreness. The comparing factor, aka “the gain”, will…[Read more]