Grace Stephania

I believe that data analytics is an important skill to have in a business career. You will be able to work with data and be able to analyze data in order to make an informed decision. If you would like to succeed in your career, the more you know Excel, the more you practice daa analytics and Tableau, and other data analytics skills, the better it…[Read more]

A data driven service that I frequently use is Amazon. If I wanted to analyze Amazon data in a csv format, I would have the product name, product number, price list, reviews using 1-5 number. From this data, I would be able to analyze if certain products are most frequently purchased by customers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/11/03/why-ai-machine-learning-and-big-data-really-matter-to-b2b-companies/#107964251f2a

For about two years, I keep hearing that AI is bad in a way that it will steal our jobs in the future. However, based on reading this article, AI + Big Data will actually help small businesses and companies to…[Read more]

An example of KPI that I use daily is how many minutes I walk, I tried to get at least an hour of walking every day. I have an Android app that monitor how many steps and how many minutes I walk on a daily basis. I believe that this walking activity consists of all of the SMART criteria components.

When I used to work in the Accounting department, my number one mistake is # 10. Opening a CSV file directly into Excel. Due to having a large data, the only way I can export data was through csv export. Working in the e-commerce and Logistics industry, we work with a lot of data that include numbers, such as domestic and international tracking…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-world-thinks-of-trump/

Reading this article reminds me of one of Obama’s speeches back in 2016, regarding Donald Trump as the next US President. Obama states that Trump do not have the ability and the skills to govern a nation. Reading this article, it shows that other countries view US and Donald…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/14/flying-us-iphone-x-cheaper-than-buying-europe-illegal-hmrc-vat

For this week’s articles, I choose “Flying to US to get an iPhone X is cheaper than buying in Europe. It’s also illegal” It is similar to how my friends and family who live in Indonesia would go shopping for electronics in…[Read more]

A conventional wisdom that my grandmother used to tell me when I was a little girl was that to always invest in gold. She claimed that investing in gold coins and/ gold bars will yield its investors a very handsome monetary reward than investing in stocks. A way to prove or disprove this conventional wisdom would be to look at gold prices from…[Read more]