Kennedy Frances Price

I believe that the most important takeaway from this course was how to create data visualizations out of massive data sets to more quickly come to conclusions and make decisions. This knowledge and skill of data manipulation will be very useful in the business world, no matter the type of work one goes into. I would describe this class as a course…[Read more]

A data-driven service that I use regularly is Amazon.com. In order to store the data into an Excel spreadsheet I would use customer names as the rows. Some columns would be order type, product, price, etc. This could be used to organize orders and see the products or types of products that customers are regularly buying.

http://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/tech-news-to-use-using-data-science-to-stop-cancer/
This article discusses the use of data to help in the fight against cancer. Tamr wants to help speed up the fight against cancer using data integration and their own big data platform. With the enormous amount of cancer data in the US, they believe…[Read more]

A KPI I use is the distance tracker app on my phone when I go running. It is specific and measurable because it measures the exact distance that I go. The distance goals I set are achievable each time I go running and relevant to my workout plan. It is time-phased because I can look at the distances I have gone over any time period (I usually use a week).

Throughout my schooling I have been required to take a computer class that is heavily based on Excel. In working with Excel I recall having problems with formulas and figuring out certain calculations, such as the number 7 mistake. I do not remember specifically the issues I have had, but I have become more careful in dealing with formulas to…[Read more]

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bosses-harness-big-data-to-predict-which-workers-might-get-sick-20160216-01321
This article is explaining how companies are using data such as where people shop, whether they vote, and credit score to make predictions about employees’ health. I find this article extremely interesting because these factors seem…[Read more]

I believe the most important principle of data visualizations is asking why. When viewing a data visualization, one must analyze what they are looking at to find patterns and relationships. More importantly, in order to make these patterns and relationships meaningful there must be reasoning behind them. Exploring the reasoning of relationships…[Read more]

I believe the most important takeaway from the discussion was identifying trustworthy data. On sites like Yelp, many people are going to be biased one way or another whether it be for a school, restaurant, or retail store. I find the reviews that explore both the good and bad of a place the most helpful. A rating that is in the middle rather than…[Read more]

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160114/NEWS/160119475
I am currently an undeclared business major, but I am particularly interested in the long-term effects that concussions have on individuals. The data driven analysis in this article relates to myself personally because of my history with concussions. I have suffered 5 concussions…[Read more]

I found the data set of the City Operating Budget of Philadelphia
I found this on opendataphilly.org
I found it interesting because I did not know where the city was spending the money it had.
I learned where the city spends a majority of the budget and how much it costs to keep basic functions of the city operating.
This data could be used…[Read more]

“Bottled water is healthier than tap water” is a piece of wisdom that people generally acknowledge as true. This statement could be tested by taking two groups of people, one who drinks bottled water and one who drinks tap water, and recording their health status. The groups would drink the water for a specific time period, and after the time…[Read more]