Jacob J Coleman

A data driven service like Blackboard stores grades and announcements for a student or professor’s classes. For a student the rows are made up of the different classes they take. The columns would consist of the different assignments with the given grades below. Assignments are different for different classes so there could be homework columns,…[Read more]

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/march-madness-5-data-sources-that-could-predict-the-2017-ncaa-championship/
I posted this article because I always wondered how it is possible to create a tournament bracket that does not leave me upset. This goes into multiple data sources from different websites that break down what goes into creating a good bracket.

A Key Performance Indicator I use is my workout journal. Whenever I go to the gym I write down how much I lift and how many reps I do. This KPI is specific because I can see exactly how much I benched and how many times each time I workout my chest. It is measurable because the weight and reps are broken down into side by side columns representing…[Read more]

I have not worked with excel too much but one mistake that I remember vividly is when I forgot to do a full backup before working on data.This happened when I was working on a project and as I was about halfway through it the system shut down and my work was not saved. This mistake was very inefficient and led me to have to start all over creating…[Read more]

https://www.r-bloggers.com/on-the-trade-history-and-dynamics-of-nba-teams/
These series of data sets tell about trade and how it is has had an impact on teams that choose to trade players as well as the amount of trades teams do per year. This is interesting to me being an NBA fan because it identifies the actual opportunity costs and benefits…[Read more]

All the principles carry their own importance in different ways but the one that really I feel is the core of all science including data science is the principle of being skeptical. All science is rooted in asking questions and testing things to find out what is true. Not accepting the first answer is how we get the next more accurate answer and…[Read more]

This link/article shows that the more money you put into your team the higher your win percentage will be.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-be-fooled-by-baseballs-small-budget-success-stories/

http://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/cb16-108_education_finance.html
This visualization is a map that details how much each state in America spends on public education based on amount spent per pupil. The darker the shade of the state the more money was spent on education per student. This graph shows that states in northeast…[Read more]

https://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Unclaimed-bank-accounts/n2rk-fwkj
This data talks about the amount of money that exists in unclaimed bank accounts for banks in the Edmonton area. I never realized the amount of money that stays in banks and that this information is allowed to be shared openly. The fact that the amount of money they have…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that “Ivy League students get the best education”. Not being an Ivy League Student causes me to oppose this belief, but in fact it is believed by many. This statement can be proven or falsified by giving a test to the top 10 students of a set number of colleges, some being Ivy Leagues while…[Read more]