Junaid K Farnum

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I would say the most important takeaway from this course is learning about the Tableau software. Learning how to use data from excel spreadsheets and importing them to visualize data will prove rather useful for future classes. I believe that this aspect can help interpret, and project data in a way that allows audiences to view data more easily.

A data-driven service that I use regularly would be the PictureCarePlus program at my job at Walgreens. This data service contains the customers, name, phone numbers, type of photo order, amount of orders, time of order placed, date of order placed…etc. If I wanted to store data for this service in a spreadsheet, the row would contain the names…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-continues-to-dominate-caucuses-but-hes-about-to-run-out-of-them/
This article is particularly interesting to me because I have been following the race for the 2016 presidency and I’m a supporter of Bernie Sanders, so seeing this data being presented is very intriguing since there are only few…[Read more]

A common KPI I use is the amount of calories I burn in a day using my Android phone. The application I use takes into account the type of action I take during the day, whether it is walking, running, jogging, or bicycling, which is pretty impressive. It gives me an aggregate estimate of the amount of calories I burn daily as a result of my…[Read more]

I have made one of those mistakes before, and it happens to be mistake number 10. It happened in our class in fact. When the class was assigned to look up data from the open data sites provided I downloaded a CSV file that had contained all of the Farmer’s market locations in Philadelphia. I had assumed that just because it had excel icon that it…[Read more]

What sparked my interest in regards to the subject matter in this article is how it states that the year 2015 according to scientists was the hottest the Earth has ever been using data provided from AccuWeather. This data presents 3,116 cities and…[Read more]

Out of the eight principles, the one that I believe is the most important is the “Ask Why” principle. To me, this principle is the most important simply because when viewing data it is crucial to know not only the data that is being presented to us but why the data appears the way it does as in results. I believe knowing why data is presented and…[Read more]

In my opinion the most important aspect that I had got from last week’s discussion on bias and the Signal Problem, is that finding good quality and reliable data relies on firstly good information and also, while not always necessary but greatly appreciated, the effort and time spent from an individual in making and delivering the said data. M…[Read more]

• The dataset that I came across was all the Farmers Market Locations in Philadelphia.
• I found this dataset on opendataphilly.org specifically, https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/farmers-markets-locations/resource/d23195c1-b7ce-4ae0-a81c-51753d096c6f
• I thought this data set was interesting because I wasn’t aware there were so many di…[Read more]