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Laura Turner's profile was updated 8 years, 1 month ago
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Laura Turner changed their profile picture 8 years, 1 month ago
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Laura Turner posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Learning SQL and R was very important in this class as it will be very beneficial in the future to not only have experience with these specific systems, but also to have experience learning new systems in general. Use of these systems helped with data visualization which brought the course together from what we learned in the beginning until now.…[Read more]
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Laura Turner posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Colleges could use decision trees to take a better look at applicants for upcoming school years. The data could include GPA, SAT and ACT scores, gender, ethnicity, family income etc. This could be used to determine who of the applicants to accept and who to reject.
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Laura Turner posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
This is a good example of data visualization because the topic is helpful and provides clear images to make it an easy read for those looking to create a logo. Use of successful logos from recognizable companies such as Apple and Nike make the viewer trust the information being…[Read more] -
Laura Turner posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
A company like Netflix could use a join to combine a customer table with a genres table to see which genres are watched most often. This could help them to decide which genres are most popular and help make decisions not only of what to upload, but also what kind of shows to create as a Netflix series.
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Laura Turner posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
With more complex scenarios I believe the most difficult part is deciphering entities from attributes. It took me some time to figure out what should be it’s own entity and what was just the attribute of that entity. Determining the entities that should exist before adding attributes helped me with this issue.
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Laura Turner commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 8 years, 9 months ago
I worked as an underwriting intern for an employee benefits consulting firm where I gathered raw data regarding high claimants, such as number of high claimants, diagnoses to determine future losses, dollar amount over the threshold, and RX claims. I would use this information to figure out how the high claimants were affecting the overall…[Read more]