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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 8 years, 11 months ago
My most important take away from this course was learning how to use excel and tableau. This course taught me a more effiecent way of using excel and it introduced tableau to me which I can use for future projects and presentations. I would explain this course to a future MIS student as a more business and data driven class instead of a typical…[Read more]
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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 8 years, 11 months ago
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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 8 years, 12 months ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-1-percents-earnings-could-be-stagnating-at-671000/
I found this article interesting because it talks about how much the 1 percent earned this year and how they believe their earnings might be stabilizing. Their data shows how the average top 1 percent of wage earners made $617,061 in 2014, increased 4.9…[Read more] -
Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years ago
A KPI that I use on a regular basis is the temperature thermostat in my apartment. It is specific and measurable because its an accurate measure of the temperature in the house. Its achievable because the temperature can be changed based upon the weather and needs of the people. Its relevant when you need to know the temperature in the house.…[Read more]
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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years ago
Number 6 was one of my main problems with excel. I was working with a big data set for a project and I was rushing through it to put in all the different values that I didn’t notice the dates turned into integers instead of staying in the simple xx/xx/xxxx form. Luckily I noticed before handing in the project that the dates turned into values that…[Read more]
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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/there-are-way-more-homeless-students-than-there-used-to-be/
The article I found is about the increase of homeless students throughout the last decade. I find it interesting to see that the number of homeless students have more than doubled since before the recession in 2008. The data shows that there was roughly…[Read more] -
Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
In my opinion, the most important takeway from Michael Dagar’s presentation was how information and data can be formed and used in the business world. He also showed us how important the presentation of the data can make a difference in someone’s decision. The organization of data can make business decisions easier if the data is easy to access…[Read more]
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Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
http://priceonomics.com/which-major-has-the-most-expensive-textbooks/
The article I chose lists which major has the most expensive textbooks. According to the data sets, economics and physics have the most expensive text books. Their data also shows that music books have the most resale value and accounting and economics are the lowest ones. They…[Read more] -
Jaime Dajes posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
An example of conventional wisdom is the commonly accepted belief that money cannot buy happiness. This can be tested by giving people a certain amount of money and letting them purchase whatever they desire. We would record their purchases and also record their emotion and pleasure after their purchase. A good example would be buying a new and…[Read more]