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Jay Patel commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by April 27, 2017, on the site 7 years, 3 months ago
One of the most imperative takeaways for me from this course was the beneficial skill of applying Tableau in the general business environment. For instance, even though Excel is great at creating various types of graphs, Tableau is the next advanced level from which one can depict the quantitative information in a feasible manner.
Finally, I…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
A regular data driven software that I regularly use is Bloomberg.
Some of the common column names that i would associate with the financial software are: Last Price, Price to Earnings Ratio, Enterprise Value, Debt to Equity Ratio, and Free Cash Flow.
For the rows I would show the Date and its frequency, which would elaborate on the…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
This article is intriguing due to the fact that it asserts that the legalization of marijuana has actually decreased its’ consumption rather increasing it. Even though this data was collected via a survey, done by a trustworthy…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
A KPI that is regularly utilize is Robinhood, which is a stock application on my cell phone.
Specific – Tells me the daily, weekly, and yearly performance of a specific security.
Measurable – The stock is part of both a market and an index, such as S&P 500 and NASDAQ, and it can be compared with either of the options.
Attainable- Based…[Read more]
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Jay Patel commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by March 9, 2017, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
One of my most common mistakes for utilizing Excel would be that of not backing up the database, and start working on it without the mandatory or recommended backup. I believe that since Excel saves automatically i don’t need to save it much often; however, i realized after several lost of data instances, that I need to save data more often so i…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
One of the most imperative principles out of the eight listed by the author is that of the “Why”. Even if one can compare, explore, and simplify the data to the best of his/her ability, one cannot soundly explain the fundamental meaning of the data to a normal individual in simple terms, if one does not completely fathom the data oneself.…[Read more]
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Jay Patel commented on the post, Weekly Question #3: Complete by February 9, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
One of the key takeaways that I retained from Mr. Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was that data is pervasive, and that every industry – from agriculture to IT – has some type of data to enhance its’ operations. For instance, his story on how his team worked on fun project outside of work for personal enjoyment, turned into a serious project that en…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Over the last decade or so, the that fact that the Top 1% have seen their wealth increase dramatically, is a fact that has been infamously known not only throughout the United States but also throughout the world. This article combines the data of the college students’ admissions rate with that of their parents’ income, in order to essentially…[Read more]
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Jay Patel posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
One of the most proverbial conventional wisdom’s’ that I have heard during my life is: “Love makes the world go around” However, my hypothesis is that, “Love does NOT make the world go around, it just makes the ride worthwhile” To test this hypothesis of mine, I would randomly select individuals from the age group of 25 – 32, and compare the…[Read more]