Linh Nhat Tran

The most important takeaway to me from this course is how to analyze and visualize data using Tableau. This tool will probably help me a lot in my future career.

Data Driven service: Youtube
Columns: Trending, History, Your Uploads, Best of Youtube, etc.
Rows: Video info (link)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-four-types-of-scarlett-johansson-movies/
The article shows the four types of Scarlett Johansson Movies by plotting her films’ inflation-adjusted domestic box office revenue according to the numbers against their critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. It comes out the 4 types are Prestigious, Home Alone 3 and P…[Read more]

KPI: How many times I curse a day.
Specific: show exactly the frequency of me swearing
Measurable: count the number of time I curse
Achievable: just count the number each time I swear
Relevant: As many curses in one day, it shows that I probably have a bad day, lots of bad thing may happen to me.
Time: can count daily

The mistake that I have made is #6: missing the data type. As I entered the dates into Excel, it keeps understand my dates as integers, which creates some problems for my Excel spreadsheet. Another mistake that I have made is not doing the back-up before using the Excel file, which I think is one of the most important ones to avoid.

In my opinion, I think cloud computing will have the biggest impact in my future career since it has already played an important role of my life and made my jobs or studies much convenient than ever before. I got my back up plans on cloud and don’t have to worry if any troubles happen. And especially cloud computing allows me to work anywhere and…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whos-trying-to-buy-an-academy-award/
The articles lets us estimate how much financial support various productions are getting when it comes to wooing the Oscar.
It includes a data table showing the biggest print campaigners, ranked by total square inches of advertising bought in the two trades.

In my opinion I think both CRM and SCM are essentials for an organization. But I am in favor of CRM a little bit more since it helps to improve efficiency in serving clients, gain greater staff satisfaction, save a great deal of money while increase both revenue and profitability.

In my opinion, Internet of things is one of the most important innovation in the recent years as nowadays there are a huge number of connected devices on the IoT network. With any smart devices connected to internet through Wifi or ceullar data , people and businesses can manage their assets in better informed ways, and can make more timely and…[Read more]

I am a MIS major and I think my future job will have to deal with a lot of data (collect, present, analyze data…). Having an integrated system like ERP will turn my job more convenient and less painful than ever before since everything (sources, data) is located in only one place and I only have to update it once, it’s easier to notice the…[Read more]

All of the eight principles are important and helpful but I think one of the most important one is simplify. This is because no one wants to look at a data visualization which is complicated and difficult to understand. The main reason that people visualize the data is to make it easier to comprehend not to make it more complex and confused. So…[Read more]

One of the takeaway that I can learn from Brian Long’s talk on Thursday is that big data can be be used to display ads, which relates to the user’s preference. Big data is especially useful for marketers to promote their products through ads and it also helps the ads itself works well. I can now address my own question why I search some p…[Read more]

Other than Information System, I think the decision tree can be a really helpful tool to draw plan, demonstrate a process, for example: your plan for certain days, schedule or studying plan for exam or ideas for your business ( investment, restaurant, project..) Decision tree is helpful since it is easy to understand, it is clear and people can…[Read more]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/clinton-trump-hip-hop-lyrics/
this is an interesting article as it shows the references of all the 2016 president candidates in a database of songs. It turns out that the data set was rife with Trump, whose prominence and longevity as a figure in hip-hop is staggering. He and his brand have been referenced in…[Read more]

As a MIS major, I believe both ERD and Swim lane diagrams are useful. However, I think the ERD diagram may be more suitable since working in IS field requires to use and process a lot of data and ERD helps to show clearly the relationships of entity sets stored in a database and illustrates the logical structure of databases