Glenn M Diener

I think the most important takeaway for this class for me was the importance of cleaning data and using Tableau. So many companies have such an abundance of data out there that they don’t know what to do with. Taking the idea of cleaning the data and making it into useful information is something that many companies are looking for these days, and…[Read more]

A data driven service that I use on a regular basis would be YouTube. Some examples of columns could be the YouTuber’s username, genre of video, and what is trending. The rows would include the information of these categories or a potential link to any given video.

Cities projected to be under water by 2100

This article describes and graphs what cities it predicts will be under water by 2100. Climate change appears is a real thing and people are still in denial about it, and it only seems to be getting worse. It is estimated that 275 million people will be not be able to…[Read more]

I have made a mistake doing number 6 on the list. There have been a few times where I have transferred data over to excel from external sources and forgot to format it correctly afterwards. This caused a huge mess in the spreadsheet, resulting in inaccurate data unclear results.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-worst-loss-in-the-history-of-u-s-mens-soccer/

This article is about the US soccer team failing to make the 2018 World Cup. This is the first time in 24 years that the team has failed to make the World Cup, and it comes as a huge shock and disappoint to many considering the abundance of resources that the…[Read more]

I believe that the most important principle is to simplify. There is a significant amount of data out there but without the proper tools, it can be extremely difficult to understand. Being able to simplify the data into something that everybody can understand is the most important because that way there is no confusion and it enables them to have…[Read more]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/01/upshot/cost-of-hurricane-harvey-only-one-storm-comes-close.html
This article shows the cost of Hurricane Harvey. While it is too early to know the exact number, experts predict it will cost somewhere between $72-$108 billion. This is interesting because there is also another graph in the article that…[Read more]

An example on conventional wisdom is “You have to earn more money.” This is completely subjective and depends on the type of person you are. Some people are completely content with the amount of money making and see no reason to need to get a better job to make more money. People that say this are saying this only to get a better lifestyle to buy…[Read more]

The most important takeaway for me in this course would be having gained the overall knowledge of how data analytics works. I’ve learned the various different ways of how to extract meaningful data from databases and use that to find out specific information about a problem or situation. I would explain to a future employer that I now have the…[Read more]

A business question regarding your own career that you could answer using a decision tree could be what university you’re going to attend. The data needed to be collected would include if you want to attend college in the first place, where the university is, how much money you’re willing to spend, where the college is, and what major you’re…[Read more]

R is used by various companies all over the world including one of the largest motor companies, Ford. R is huge part of the revolution at Ford as they are using it for various data science related objectives. This includes breaking down data silos between analytic groups within Ford and understanding how drivers are using electric cars, based on…[Read more]

Why Smiling Is So Contagious

This is a good inforgraph because it discusses what the affect smiling not only does to you but to everyone around you. It relieves stress, puts you in a better mood, and also puts everyone else around you in a better mood. The graphic gives statistics about what smiling can do to your…[Read more]

A situation where you could use a joint to retrieve information from a set of tables would be to look up customers who bought specific cars in an area. You could use a joint table to join a customer table and cars. The customer table would include all of the data pertaining the the customer such as where they live and their name, and the car table…[Read more]

For me the trickiest part about creating an ERD diagram from a problem statement was identifying the correct cardinality from the various different entities. It was relatively easy to pick out the correct entities and it was also relatively easy to pick out what the attributes were for each entity. However, it got tricky when you had to pick out…[Read more]

Over the summer I worked for a country club called Squires. The day of the week would determine how many members would show up. After a while of gathering the data of which members and how many members would come on certain days, that data would determine what would needed to be properly down for that day. We used that data to plan accordingly as…[Read more]