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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, 100 second reflection on the course, on the site 9 years, 10 months ago
Here are my biggest takeaways:
1. Data Analytics can be successfully implemented if the organization culture is aligned for data driven decision making
2. Leadership plays an important role to drive Data Driven culture across the organization
3. Data Visualization tools are important to communicate the organizations most pressing data needs
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 12, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
At the outset the presentation was great. high quality talk and visuals. I particularly liked the focus on the design of the visualization rather than just focus on the tools.
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Guest lecture on Tuesday (11/11), on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Prof. This is great. Thank you for arranging the talk.
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 10, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
How many patients visited Emergency Room? Ans: 17580
How many of them were male and how many female? Male : 6867 , Female: 10713
How many of them had Headache? Male : 217 , Female : 521 -
Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 9, on the site 10 years ago
Data.gov could encourage better use of data by doing the following:
1. Simplicity: Create the website and data interface with advance search features to ensure using the site is intuitive and easy
2. Nomenclature and Classification: Give detailed description of data sets , identify source of data, define meta data to help users understand the…[Read more] -
Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Week 8 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
Q2: IHC case has numerous example which links Data and process. For example at one point the IHC data estimated 15% salary expense was devoted to entering data. The process was then streamlined in 1997 and PCMS processes helped to organize nursing services by task and then structured an electronic data collection system accordingly. PCMS helped…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Week 7 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
I was looking at the ADULT COMPLETE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Form and found that a simple data point such as Date of Birth (DOB) can cause confusion. In this particular case its not defined if the person filling up the form should enter DOB as DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY or MM/YY or any other format. This very small information that can change a lot of…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, KPIs, on the site 10 years ago
Leading Indicator: Average Turnaround Time
Lagging Indicator : Number of Flights -
Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 22, on the site 10 years ago
At the outset, I would highly recommend every one to check this site out http://www.statista.com/ This is a site which focuses on producing info graphics and charts with a great pool of industries and topics. I used this info graphic on my blog http://gauravvarma.com/post/78863284216/tablet-vs-pc to explain why PC’s are not going to be out of…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 10 years ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=visualize+data+world+bank&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=936&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QTYrVNvyKIe6yQSNvoHIBA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=TenGRCU8W9_0TM%253A%3B-w81LPfow1v7kM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fone-org.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fus%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2014%252F05%252Fdata-visualization-gelman-1024×768.jpg%3…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 9, on the site 10 years ago
Q1
The idea of joins allows users to retrieve information from two or multiple tables. Take for example in case of a hotel website. Imagine two tables:Profile Table: a table which has customer profile information such as name, address, passport/nationality details and credit card
Transaction Table : a table which has customer transaction…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
For ERD to work efficiently, its important to correctly define the attributes , then its important to identify the relationships, be it one to many or many to many and finally its important to note and identify the primary keys or unique identifiers. I think assigning more importance to any one variable will lead to wrong assumptions. The model…[Read more]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Discussion Question: Crowdfunding, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
A good way to know how a site is performing is to visit Alexa and see the site stats. I went just right there to see how popular Kickstarter is . It was actually to my surprise I found out that 50.8% of users […]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Discussion Question: Disruptive Power of Collaboration, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
I am not sure to totally agree with the idea that abundance abundance breaks more things than scarcity. Back in the old days; the world was largely an agriculture based society, then it changed into a Industrial […]
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Discussion Question: Panera bets big on IT, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
I also wanted to add to my previous comment Metrics such as :
1. Revenue per store
2. No of Orders Served
3. Ratio of electronic Orders VS regular orders
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Gaurav Varma commented on the post, Discussion Question: Panera bets big on IT, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
Idea seems great, while I have not tried it myself. I can give a secondary consumer perspective. I think one important aspect for Panera is use Analytics and take this idea to the next level. For example if the […]
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