Kashif Hasan Malik

In my opinion, the most important is compare. When you look at a piece of data you may extract the data you are looking for, however, if you were to compare that data set to another data set it can lead you to even more conclusions that were not noticeable. Comparing helps to develop conclusions and can come beneficial especially when looking at…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from bias and the Signal Problem was that bias can expose you to only certain information, not all of the information available and can make you make your decision incorrectly. For example, If I wanted to buy a video game and I went to look at the reviews to see if it was actually a game I wanted to get…[Read more]

1.) I found a data set on the lottery power ball winning numbers beginning from 2010
2.) I found it on Data.gov
3.) With all of the attention surrounding the lottery, I thought it would be interesting seeing what the winning numbers were
4.) I learned numbers that appeared the most often and how often they appeared in the lottery
5.) You can…[Read more]

How Barclays is cashing in on big data & Hadoop to stay ahead in fintech

This article was interesting because it shows how banks can use big data to their benefit and get an edge over their competitors. For example, Barclays is beginning to realize that this specific data is “not only for…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom is that you should change your oil every 3,000 miles. A way to collect this data is to record cars that come for an oil change and to see if they really needed an oil change and how long they could’ve gone until the next oil change. This data will then allow me to see if the saying “change your oil every 3,000…[Read more]