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Welcome!
Major: Management Information Systems
Graduation: May 2019
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My name is James Base. I am a junior pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration in […]
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James Base posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
I think the most important aspect when working with anything is having a keen understanding of why you’re doing what you’re doing. Through the readings, quizzes, questions, exercises and overall discourse in the class, you’re able to learn about the in’s and out’s of data, common practices in the real world and how you can be an asset if it’s a…[Read more]
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James Base posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
I’m a very avid user and lover of Foursquare, and I would love to do research on their data. To organize their data, I would use rows for specific places that Foursquare recommends by columns of: address, rating, price, tips, reviews, photos, menus, hours, website, social media and ordering.
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James Base posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
This article highlights the likelihood of who would win the 2016 Election for President of the United States. It was interesting to see the data-centric predictions that ended up being completely wrong. Particularly, I believe that the best visualization used was ‘the…[Read more] -
James Base posted a new activity comment 7 years, 12 months ago
A common KPI that I like to use is, “how many tasks am I completing within one hour”? This is conforms to the SMART criteria through being specific, measurable and time-bound. Normally, I will set a goal to get three to five things done within the hour and if I don’t reach it, I know I either need to stop procrastinating, grab another cup of…[Read more]
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James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
– Number of meetings attended over span of the project
– Number of ideas submitted during brainstorming
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James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
I have fallen guilty to a few of the issues listed in the article, however among the most embarrassing would be opening a CSV file directly into excel. It’s an easy fix along with all of the other issues listed throughout, however it’s definitely something I wanted to avoid going forward. Along with a lot of other points made in the comments thus…[Read more]
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James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
We have a Team of 6, however our in-class team consists of: James Base, Wilbert Castillo, and Suet Yuk Au Yeung.
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James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/first-debate-losers-arent-more-likely-to-rebound-in-the-second-debate/
Per usual, here’s another article about the 2016 Election along with infographics and data visualizations that describe why ‘losing points’ for both of the candidates are likely to be rough spots for them yet again and vise-versa. The…[Read more] -
James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
Interested in the space to begin with, you might recall me bringing up Facebook’s initiative of Internet.org. While I found the ‘company campaign’ of sorts to be extremely interesting, I was continuously searching for the reason as to how Zuckerberg was able to recruit some of the brightest minds that the space has ever seen to work on such an…[Read more]
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James Base posted a new activity comment 8 years, 1 month ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-a-republican-party/
I really enjoyed this article from Five Thirty Eight, because I’ve been making the assumption that this years election has been putting a dent in the Republican Party for a while now and now I have data evidence to back up that my hypothesis was correct. While I don’t think that…[Read more]