Jason Himes

A KPI that is used by me nearly every day is my GPA. It is both specific and measurable as It is has a scale which can go up to 4.0 and all of my performance in classes factor into it. The GPA is achievable because my individual achievements in class decide what it becomes. It is relevant as it is used by the university to judge my progress in…[Read more]

I have often opened a CSV file into Excel, I was not even aware that doing so could cause serious problems. Since my past experience with excel has mostly just been using it for small in class assignments I guess there was not much that could have gone wrong. Going forward I will need to be more careful about how this could affect my data.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/02/exclusive-berkshire-hathaway-energy-deal-uptake-technologies/
This article is about a company which specializes in interconnecting devices to extrapolate data. Because data is useful in nearly every facet of our lives they see being able to take data from nearly everything as a good way to improve things. One example…[Read more]

I think that data science has greatly affected the advertisement industry. The insight that big data has given to corporations and other businesses about their customers has allowed them to change the way that they create advertisements and who they show their advertisements. I dont see myself having a career in a field like advertising however I…[Read more]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2017/01/31/realizing-the-potential-of-big-data-and-analytics/#1c151c31c66c
I found this article interesting because it looks into how big data can, and will, be used by companies in a variety of ways. The companies will use big data to “adopt and adapt” new services and products that big data shows to be…[Read more]

One piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that spending your free time watching television or playing video games will “make your brain rot”. I think it would be fairly easy to test whether or not extended use of these entertainment products has a negative impact on how intelligent people become. One could simply have a standardized…[Read more]