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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
A data driven services that I use regularly is blackboard. If I were to organize the data in a spreadsheet the row would include; course names, instructor names, course numbers, assignments, announcements, course syllabus, grades, course documents.
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
One of the most important takeaways from this class is the use of excel and tableau. Before this class I had a basic knowledge about excel and absolutely no idea what tableau was, now I have a bit more extensive knowledge about how to use excel and some of the various function such as vlookup and the match which I think is a valuable skill to have…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
This article was about The NITS a research and development component of the Department of Commerce, that is looking to foster a public-private sector collaboration on data solutions. The idea is to allow private data companies access to…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Memoona Khan, Kahleem Wilkins, Jamya Day & Ellen Wiah
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
An example of a KPI i use everyday is the “Nike fitness app” on my phone. It tracks the distance I run, walk and the steps i take in a day. It very specific and measurable because it tracks my distance through my location and give me a weekly summary of all the activities i performed that week. It is very important for me to know the distances i…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
A mistake I made and learned from was number 3 “start working on a database without doing a full back-up”. I had a marketing internship last semester and I was tasked with updating the company email list, I downloaded the list without doing a full back-up and in the middle of updating the list my computer crashed and when it came back on the…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
This article talks about how scientist used unverified data to exaggerate the impact of global warming and influence the Paris convention on climate change. This article was interesting to me because, I know global warming and…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
I think that all the 8 core principles are important but principle # 7 be skeptical is the most important. This principle is the most important because it urges you to question the answers we get from our data. Being skeptical and questioning the answers we get from the data allows us to further explore the data from different perspective and…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
The most important takeaway from last week class was acknowledging that bias exist in data collecting and interpretation and that the signal problem can affect the credibility of the data. Over the weekend I was decided where to order food, I look at reviews on yelp and google reviews and decided on Italian Kitchen a local pizzeria up the street…[Read more]
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Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venturecapital-bigdata-idUSKBN14X24C
I choose this article because it focuses on the amount of personal information that data company are collecting on people and the risk that comes with it. The article the importance of collecting large amount of data and how collecting big data helps Airbnb’s know whether…[Read more] -
Ellen Gbeyeh Wiah posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
“If you work hard you will be successful” is a conventional wisdom I have heard all my life. This is not necessarily true hard work doesn’t automatically equals success. The are people who have worked hard all their life and they are not successful and there are people who just attempted something and became successful. To test this I would take…[Read more]