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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
The biggest takeaway from this course is how we can regcognize how data is a daily party of our lives. In addition, we get to use Tableau to make data visualization instead of just using Excel. For future scholars, I would say this course will help you to identify and analyze data in many ways. Seeing as how big data is such a current thing, this…[Read more]
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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
An example of KPI would be my work hours. It’s specific and measurable as my time is recorded by the hour. It’s achievable in that I can work more hours as needed to reach a certain pay range. It’s relevant because it determines if I’m getting paid enough to pay for my expenses. It’s time variant because I can look at the recorded hours over a…[Read more]
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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
This website gives an interactive graphic of how the government is spending our tax dollars. This article is interesting because we all pay taxes and it gives an insight as to what what our money is being used…[Read more]
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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 3 months ago
I haven’t made a mistake as listed in the article, but the most important to avoid is not having a backup of the database before you start working on it. There are similar issue with programs like Word where we type a paper, forget to save, and the program crashes. In a similar way, if something were to happen to the database, it’s a good to have…[Read more]
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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 4 months ago
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/datablog/2016/jan/18/young-fear-jobs-automated-10-years-report
This article is about young people who are concerned that jobs will be automated within the next decade. A poll was conducted in nine countries asked people between the ages of 16 and 25 to rate their confidence in their technological skill. In…[Read more] -
Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hollywoods-diversity-problem-goes-deeper-than-the-oscars/
I remember reading a U.S. census report stating how there won’t be a majority group by 2050. Given that statistics, you would expect more of a diverse film industry. However, the link informs how Hollywood is pretty much white. The data collected from…[Read more] -
Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Out of the eight core principles, asking why is the most important to me. Data visualization gives us the tool to see the information presented in a way that is easy on the eye. It shows us what is happening, but it doesn’t exactly tell us what to do. We need to ask why this is happening, so we can come up with answers.
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Laura Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
An example of conventional wisdom is hiring people with disability will be costly for the business. This is in fact not true and there are studies that have been done, which states that over half of the accommodations cost less than $500. You can test this out by gathering data from various companies to see how much is spent in providing…[Read more]
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Laura Nguyen commented on the post, E-Portfolio Submit Page, on the site MIS 2101 Sec 001 Spring 2014 10 years, 3 months ago