Katherine V Murawski

The most important thing I have learned from this class is that data is used everywhere and can be used in all sorts of professions not just business ones. It also helped me learn to interpret data and really understand what it means.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170222125626.htm
This article talks about how many athletes “sandbag” concussion tests to have a quicker recovery so they can get back to their sports sooner. In the article the researcher found a technique on how to identify when people are faking their concussion test. She explains that this worked…[Read more]

One example of a KPI I use is my GPA.
Specific: because it pertains to a specific class
Measurable: because it is based off of either a 4.0 scale or out of 100%
Achievable: because students set goals to have a certain GPA
Relevant: because colleges, jobs, gradschools, scholarships use it for entry into their program
Time Phased: over the…[Read more]

I have downloaded CSV files directly into excel. When I did this nothing that I know of happened and things seemed to work out fine. But I think a really important thing to look out for is clicking “yes” when the popup asks if you want to remove this from the server. Personally when I see popups like that on my computer I just hit yes or save or…[Read more]

Out of the 8 core principles or good data visualization I believe that the most important one is to simplify. I’m not a FOX or MIS major so when I look at data I don’t want to be confused by it or overwhelmed, so I like data to be simple and straight to the point. So simplicity will make data easier to understand and more versatile for people that…[Read more]

https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/medical-school-admissions-doctor/articles/2017-01-03/3-medical-school-admissions-trends-to-watch-in-2017
This article explains some trends of Medical Trends of 2017. It goes into depth of the amount of people who applied to Medical school v.s. the amount that actually got in, and talks about the rise of MCAT…[Read more]

For Instagram:
Rows: username
Columns: Amount of pictures posted, average likes on pictures, amount of followers, amount of people they are following.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
This is an interactive data visualization in which you can see how closely each congressman/woman and house representative voted inline with Trump’s policy. If you click on the politicians name you can then see each bill that was voted on in the Senate or House and how each politician…[Read more]