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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by April 27, 2017, on the site 7 years, 3 months ago
The most important thing I learned in this class was the importance and relavence of data in todays society. Before taking this course I understood how data worked, but not on the same level as what this course shows those who take it. Using Excel and Tableau has changed my perspective on the topic, as their are many different ways to interpret…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by April 20, 2017, on the site 7 years, 4 months ago
A data source I use often is ESPN for statistics on players. For baseball players the rows would be the players names and the columns would be their statistics such as batting average, singles, doubles, triples, home runs, strikeouts, etc.
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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by April 6, 2017, on the site 7 years, 4 months ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-york-now-has-more-mets-fans-than-yankees-fans/
In this article it discusses a poll taken in New York City that analyzes the number of Yankees vs. Mets fans. Since 1998, the yankees have had more fans in New York City than the mets. But, this year there are more Mets fans, 45% being Mets fans, 43% being…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 23, 2017, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
A KPI that I use daily is my phones battery percentage. It is specific and measurable by the percentage number of battery life I have left. It is achievable because I can charge/use my phone to gain or decrease battery percentage. It is relevant because when it is charged, it has an impact on my phone bill/how much I use my phone. Its time-varient…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Before taking this course, I rarely worked with data and programs like excel. But, If I were to relate to one of these, it would be clicking “yes” without carefully evaluating the message that says “do you want to remove this from the server?” I have definitely made this mistake before on my computer and deleted things I did not mean to get rid…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by March 2, 2017, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mars-needs-lawyers/
In this article, data is analyzed for future costs to get humans Mars. In 1989, NASA estimated a future 400 billion dollar human Mars mission…that number in 2014, turned out to only be a mere 100 billion. Today it is reported that numbers are as low as just 6 billion dollars. The…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 16, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
I would say that simplify is the most important core principle to data visualization. Simplicity is key to displaying data for viewers. By keeping images such as charts or graphs simple and easy to read, it makes it more appealing to viewers while also allowing them to receive and interpret the data easier. Having too much going on in a data…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
The most important thing I learned from Maurice’s speech was that being proactive is important when working with data for companies. During his talk, he provided us with the example of when he went out of his way to check data for sales for a certain product to find out why money was not coming in. He took it upon himself to discover the problem…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-wednesday-feb-1-2017/
The article that I chose is titled, “Significant Digits for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017.” The article take numbers and percentages and related them to an event that happened on the day February first. One of the events was that property owners and residents of Flint…[Read more]
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Jackson C Marshall posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Conventional wisdom statement: Technology is making youth in today’s society less intelligent than previous generations when technology was not as prevalent…
To test this, researchers could put together two groups: One containing members of today’s youth, and another containing members from a generation where technology was not as prominent in…[Read more]