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Jordan Massey posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
One thing I have learned in this class is how to use data to convey my point whether it be in the field of business, music, sports or school. I would tell a future student that data processing services are paradigm shifts that many businesses are now using to easily get the data they want.
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Jordan Massey posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
A mistake that I have constantly made in No. 4: Sort a spreadsheet, but not include all the columns. It is very important to do so because it will easily corrupt your data. I was doing a project on Baseball home runs and forgot to include the column for a specific prominent player, I looked at it and knew it was wrong because the player was not present.
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Jordan Massey posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I think the most important principle is the seventh, be skeptical. Nowadays when we see data or any other information we take it at face value instead of being skeptical and challenging notions. One of science’s biggest tenets is skepticism because it is important to challenge things that are wrong and presented as scientific facts.
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Jordan Massey commented on the post, Weekly Question #9: Complete by April 19, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
A data driven website that I use quite frequently is Youtube. It is a site with different videos. It provides data about views and regions where views come from. If I would organize the data in a spreadsheet, the rows would be different videos and the columns would be the regions and views.
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Jordan Massey posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
‘This article is about the streaming data and a new streaming record set by Drake’s “More Life” in its second week on the Billboard charts. Drake’s more life set a new record at 253 million new streams which is down from the 385 million streams…[Read more]
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Jordan Massey commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 22, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
A KPI that I use on a regular basis is my Virtual DJ application on my computer. It is specific because it collects data of the first time a song was played and how many beats are in the song. It is measurable because it measures how many times I have played a song. It is achievable because I can create a playlist and make a mix that is the…[Read more]
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Jordan Massey commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by March 1, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
https://www.nextbigsound.com/charts
This article shows which 20 artists listeners have been using to create the highest number of Pandora stations from over the past week, and reflect which up-and-coming artists are currently trending on the platform. It is interesting to see the numbers of Pandora stations for new artists and the comparisons…[Read more] -
Jordan Massey commented on the post, Weekly Question #3: Complete by February 8, 2017, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
The most recent instance of the use of data in my every day life is looking at the first week sales of some of my favorite music artists to determine their popularity. I have determined that if an artist exceeds a first week sales number of over 50k, they have reached a new increment of popularity and 100k and so on and so on. I believe that the…[Read more]
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Jordan Massey commented on the post, Weekly Question #3: Complete by February 8, 2017, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
The biggest takeaway for me was the fact that bias truly cannot be eliminated from data, it can be minimized but not taken out. It made me think of all the statistics and polls we hear about in the news and how we have to take information with a grain of salt because even statistics have heavy bias in them.
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Jordan Massey posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Pandora’s streaming data is now included in the Billboard Hot 100 music chart
The article talks about the inclusion of Pandora’s streaming data as one of the streaming services that is being used as a determinant along with physical sales and radio airplay for the Billboard Hot 100 list. The reason Pandora is now being included with streaming giants like…[Read more]