Hsin-Jung Yu

One data-driven service is IMDB website. The rows would be the information of the movie, the columns will have director, stars name, type of movie it is, length of the movie, when it’s released, and details of the movie like language, made by which country, short introduction of the movie.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/04/uber-google-waymo-self-driving-cars
This article is about the driving statistics published by California, it shows that Google is 5,000 times better than Uber at autonomous driving. The way to measure the autonomous driving solution is how often the driver has to take over to correct shortcomings…[Read more]

The KPI I use is the activity monitor. It’s helpful when I encounter no responses for my computer . It’s specific and measurable that it shows all the applications I’m using and also the percentage of CPU they used. It’s achievable that I can quit some applications if they’re using too much CPU. It’s relevant that higher CPU occupation can slow…[Read more]

I believe #3, “Start working on the database without doing a full backup first” is the most important. After doing all the data compilation like taking out the Nulls , changing the type for specific column cells and also clean up the missing data for excel when I was doing a group project, my old computer crashed for no reason. I guess because I…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/cancer-rates-are-dropping-but-not-in-rural-appalachia/
This article is about a research out of the University of Virginia, cancer incidence has declined in much of the country since 1969 — but not in rural Appalachia. There’re many factors that cause this problem, smoking, obesity, environment(mining), h…[Read more]

I think the most important principle of data visualization is “Simplify”. It sounds like it’s easy just an output of the essence of data, however, how to define the the essence and how to provide the right visualization that can let everyone know what your talking about is really difficult.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-hollywood-insider/
This data visualization illustrates data compiled from over 1200 major Hollywood films of the last eight years. A representative of Scatterplot Matrices. There are many Y-axis and X-axis to choose from. Selecting the % budget recovered from Y-axis and selecting the…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/30/libratus-poker-artificial-intelligence-professional-human-players-competition
This article caught my eyes because nowadays artificial intelligence’s bot has become more and more popular. It’s interesting that we know the AI bots are learning much more faster than humans and can rationally predict…[Read more]

I would like to modify the collection of my data. I would look up the “The World’s Billionaires” and find out the 50% of the billionaires who inherited the family property. Then I’ll trace back their background and find out which generation they are.

An example of conventional wisdom I heard before is that “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”. It means that the wealth of a family can last for three generation. However, the fact is that the 2nd generation may see the value of hard work, the 3rd generation might forget how their ancestors put their effort in the work. In order to…[Read more]