Emily A Jacobson

A data driven website I visit regularly is Amazon. I could make spreadsheets on different aspects from items purchased, items related/suggested based on what I have purchased, or items on a wish list. For example a column could be items purchased and the rows could be name of product, price, date order was placed, date order was received, and…[Read more]

I think mistake 3 is an important error to avoid. This error is starting to work on the database without doing a full backup first. While the other mistakes can seriously effect your results, nothing can effect your results more than not having anything because it is all lost. Like all important documents and information, it is important to…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most important core principle of data visualization simplification. All of the principles build upon each other and without the data visualization first being simplified the other principles become harder to apply. If the data visualization is not simplified than it would be much harder to compare since the visualization may…[Read more]

I found a U.S. hourly precipitation data set at http://www.data.gov. I found it interesting because I was looking for weather data sets because of the recent snow storm. I look at the charts for Pennsylvania and was amazed that so much data was available and that is for 1 of 50 states. People could use this data to determine where they might want to…[Read more]

Accounting’s Big Data Problem

I found this article interesting because it connected what we will be learning in this course with my accounting major. The article explains how Big Data can enhance an accountant’s skills. I now know ways that Data Science will be beneficial to me in my career path.