Linh H Dang

About Me

Our team is working on determining the relationship between high school drop-out rates, household incomes and crime rates in different districts in Philadelphia.

Our team consists of:
– Qisheng Chen.
– Erin R. Kearney
– Heshuo Zhang
– Yi Xuan Zhou
– Linh H. Dang (me)

I use Facebook almost everyday.
A row will be an individual post.
Some of the columns would be:
– Date (MM/DD/YYYY)
– Number of likes.
– Number of comments.
– Number of shares.
– Type of post (pictures, textual statuses, videos, or shares)
– Number of words in the post.
– …

I have worked with Excel before, but I have not used it for any data-intensive operations or tasks that require complex functions. Therefore, I have not fallen into the traps in the list yet. However, I have made mistakes that have element of number 2 and number 3.

I used to work for a non-profit organization. I interacted a lot with data…[Read more]

I believe that among the eight core principles mentioned by Stephen Few, “Simplify” is the most important one because it allows visualized data to be noticed and digested in an age where data are so plentiful that we spend less time on each set of data. Social media platforms provide good examples. On many occasions, we scroll quickly through our…[Read more]

For me, the most essential takeaway from Mr. Whetstone’s talk is how one approaches data is sometimes more important than the data one can collect. One great example is QVC’s effort to standardize data sets and metadata so that it is easily understood by all of its analysts across the world. Another memorable example is Mr. Whetsone’ story about…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/

The reason this article caught my eye in the first place is that I am currently worried about how a popular Facebook page in my country is posting random nutrition facts gathered from dubious sources all over the Internet. This page has more than a million likes,…[Read more]

A piece of conventional wisdom that I am familiar with is “Reading books regularly makes one more knowledgeable and intelligent”. One way to test whether this statement is true or not is to conduct a survey. Firstly, randomly selected participants will provide the average number of books they read per year. All surveyed participants will then take…[Read more]