Joane Dang

Data is everywhere. Looking at raw data can be confusing and long, but it’s the process of using those raw data to make something out of it is actually fun. Using tableau for visualization is also very fun and will be useful for the future.
This course is an introduction to MIS and you actually learn more from MIS0855 than MIS2101 in a sense of…[Read more]

For Blackboard:
Columns would be course, the semester, grade, professor
Rows: the name of the course, SPR/FALL, A-F, name of professor

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-gop-bill-could-change-health-care-in-8-charts/
This article talks about what could happen if the American Health Care Act passes. This is interesting to me because if this bill is passed, it would greatly affect me because my family is part of the 20% group under medicaid and it’s possible that we can…[Read more]

My Virtual Wallet app for PNC tells me my balance.
Specific and Measurable- it tells me how much money I have currently and that is a precise measure/amount.
Achievable- I can deposit more money for a specific goal.
Relevant- it determines whether or not I can withdraw money and whether or not I should deposit money if there isn’t enough…[Read more]

During senior year of High school, I had to use excel to create my own credit card balance and show what will happen if I only pay the minimum amount and how much more I would end up paying. Since the assignment asked us to put an amount of $100,000 or higher, the rows were extremely long. I fell in the stupid corruption tricks of “Copying…[Read more]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/united-states-of-oil/
This article is interesting to me because I’ve taken a couple courses relating to fracking and how horrible it is to those living near these sites and to the earth itself, however majority of U.S citizens benefits from cheap oil and gas and the US in general makes a lot of…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most important rule is “explore”. Everything starts off with exploring. One can’t question something, compare, respond, attend, etc. if there is no starting point. Plus it’s important to discover and explore which data visualization tools will be best to allow someone to perform the other core principles.

The most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was that Data is in the heart of everything. I learned that data is not only very important to retail, but also important to any department of business or any job out there. He talked about how during a live broadcast, data from live comments/questions were the reason why t…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/27/british-airways-cabin-crew-walkout-strike-pay-dispute

In this article, it talks about how members of the British Airways cabin crew will go on strike because they are not paid enough. British Airways states that pay starts at £12,192 and will all earn at least £21,000/year, however the crew m…[Read more]

Conventional Wisdom Statement: Money can’t buy happiness. One way to test this is to survey a group of people and to have a MRI scan/psychological test to see the levels of Serotonin and other “happy” hormones, from all different classes before money is given to them. After a large sum of money is given to them, I’ll then survey/test them after a…[Read more]