Jack Hanson

For me, the most important takeaway was learning how to structure, interpret, and present data. I think that Excel, Tableau, and the Piktochart application were the best tools we learned about. The theme of numbers and data determining future outcomes is very important to me because I am majoring in statistics. If I had to explain to a future…[Read more]

We could take statistics for Twitter such as:

Columns: Followers, Following, # of Tweets, Replies, Likes, Retweets, # of Times visiting the App/Website each day

Rows: All of the rows contain quantitative figures (sums of each)

We could then use this data to find averages such as average Likes per Tweet, Retweets per Tweet, Tweets per visit, etc.

Is Time Tracking Killing Your Team’s Productivity?

This is a very interesting article that counters the theory that tracking time can increase productivity. In fact, this article states that tracking time can often negatively affect how a workforce perceives their work. For example, employees tend to work less hard…[Read more]

How busy am I?
Specific: How often am I doing work
Measurable: Hours spent in a day not on free time
Achievable: I log the hours from when I wake up to when I go to sleep, I subtract the amount of free time I had that day (for a month)
Relevant: Allows one to be more productive with their time
Time: This can be done every day for at least a…[Read more]

I don’t use excel very often, but I have made mistake Number 7: Put Values in Field that are Supposed to be Pointers or References. I made this mistake when I was working on a budgeting project. When doing the calculations to determine my expenses, I put in criteria that helped me get to the sums, but I put this data under the column title “Final…[Read more]

In this article, writer Neil Irwin covers economic…[Read more]

I think that Simplify is the most important of the 8 principles. This step basically challenges the artist or data designer to give the audience the most important or relevant data via an easy delivery. Certain graphics are going to require multiple categories of information and a lot of extra or unnecessary data. By simplifying the data, the…[Read more]

The most important takeaway from Brian Long’s talk was how Big Data can be used within professions. It was very helpful that he applied our studies of Big Data and connected them to money. This gave me a great deal of perspective on how important Big Data truly is. I learned that Big Data can be used to sift through results (bids) rapidly in order…[Read more]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwilliams/2017/01/30/1-33-billion-chicken-wings-to-be-eaten-on-super-bowl-sunday-and-more-food-factoid-fun/#603a06f38119

Major: Statistics

This is an interesting (and kind of fun) article about food consumption on the day of the Super Bowl. On Super Bowl Sunday, we eat the second most amount of food in a day…[Read more]

A good example of conventional wisdom is that students with higher college GPA’s tend to have higher incomes post-college (I don’t have an opinion on this statement, so I don’t know if it’s false or true). Although I don’t know much about the translation of these statistics, I believe it would be interesting to take an entire graduating class’s…[Read more]