Jacob E Epstein

My biggest takeaway from the course is how integral data is in our society and how important the analysis is. The class made me think of data from very different perspectives and offered ways to interpret it properly. I would advise any prospective to be more cognizant before going into the course about what exactly data is and to be aware of what…[Read more]

I work at a recruiting firm, and we use a database called PCRecruiter. The rows would be the names of each individual candidate that we could potentially contact. The columns would have data such as the individuals’ phone number, email address, the city where they live, and their compensation. It would make viewing this data much more concrete and…[Read more]

Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data

The link above discusses the recent data breach experienced by Verizon. Recently, concepts such as these have become more and more interesting to me because I find it so fascinating that a few people with enough motivation and malicious intent have the…[Read more]

A KPI that I use in my everyday life is my Nike Run App. I’m a runner and use this app to track how long I’ve run, my route, my time, and my average pace. This KPI is specific because it gives me exact times and routes, and measurable because it gives me direct statistics of the results of my run. It is achievable because it allows me to set goals…[Read more]

The biggest mistake that I’ve ever fallen victim to with Excel, and I would venture to say that most people are guilty of this in some capacity, is not reading a message before I click ‘yes’ to proceed. Many times we are in too much of a rush for no reason at all and think that there isn’t any way that the message could be of importance. One time…[Read more]

How Airbnb’s Data Science Team Doubled The Ratio Of Female Employees Last Year

This article discusses how the Data Science team at AirBNB doubled the percentage of females on the team in the past year. I find this concept particularly fascinating because of our discussions about data scientists and equal…[Read more]

I find the principle “ask why” to be the most important of the 8 Core Principles on Data Visualization. Throughout the whole semester, we have been learning that data is only significant if you can understand it and analyze it. We did an entire activity where we looked at good examples of data represented in a visual manner. We wouldn’t understand…[Read more]