Faisal Rahman

Congrats, Professor!

Awesome taste in music, too.

For me, the most important takeaway from Data Analytics would be learning SQL, pivot tables in Excel and R/RStudio. The tech industry is getting bigger and bigger and there is an explosion of the amount of data that is stored in servers all over the world. Companies need the people to fill in those high demand jobs and knowledge in database…[Read more]

Most Hollywood movies are shown in almost every theater around the US. Smaller indie films are only shown in select theaters around the country so a decision tree can be used to decide whether or not a customer will see a certain movie depending on their location, age, sex, neighborhood cluster or other demographics.

http://www.inside-r.org/blogs/2014/06/11/more-companies-using-r-uber-and-cultureamp

Uber uses R for statistical analysis. For example, Uber was able to find out since the introduction of Uber in Seattle, DUI incidents have decreased 10%.

The Cost of Love: Not All Relationships are Created Equal This Valentine’s Day

This graphic shows a great story about the differences of expenses and behaviors of men and women and society on and around Valentine’s Day. This is a great graphic because it tells a compelling story which many people can relate to. It…[Read more]

The trickiest thing about creating an ERD from a problem description is picking out the right carnality and relationships. The cardinality of entities is very tricky because you really have to think of all the possible number of “instances” between two entities. The best way I’ve found to do ERDs is to picture the whole scenario in your head…[Read more]