Luke Greenley

I believe that the most important takeaway from this course was learning multiple tools to analyze data sets like Tableau and Excel while also learning about the data itself. Its descriptive properties and knowing what it represents is vital to proper analysis, and maintaining an thorough data dictionary will help to facilitate the process. If I…[Read more]

A data-driven website that I use quite frequently is Amazon.com. As a massive site with millions of product listings, it provides vast amounts of data. If I were to organize the data in a spreadsheet, the rows would be the different products listed. For each row, some columns would be the manufacturer and price of the product, and if the product…[Read more]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/03/28/the-amazing-way-ge-is-combining-big-data-and-electrons-to-create-the-internet-of-energy/#139f6f181806
In this article, it is discussed that GE is attempting to create an “Internet of Energy” by using electrons in tandem with Big Data. As GE provides 30% of the worlds energy through turbines and…[Read more]

A KPI that I use on a regular basis is my grade in a particular class. It is specific and measurable because it is an exact value, and it is achievable by means of using the most effective study and work methods to get the best grade possible. Furthermore, it is relevant to my success because it is a measure of that very thing, and finally it is…[Read more]

I think the mistake to avoid the most would be #1, accidentally removing data from the server. This mistake raises a number of issues, but most of all it is an inconvenience to the user because it could delete all progress and ruin a data set or analysis that one may have made.

In my opinion, the most important of the 8 principles of data visualization is to ask why. This one in particular caught my attention the most because when analyzing or observing a data set or visualization, the data does not have a meaning until we give it one by questioning it. Critical thinking in response to presented data lets us look past…[Read more]

The most important thing that I took away following reflection on biases in data sets and the Signal Problem is the simple realization that data is not neutral. As the article by Kate Crawford put it, they are creations of human design. We are the ones that point out relationships between data sets, and we decide what they mean. Recently, I used…[Read more]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump
The article I found was interesting to me as it relates to recent major political stories from around the world, but specifically in the United States. The focus was the dangers of big data and the sheer power and influence it possesses. Specifically, the main subject of…[Read more]

A piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that being a gymnast makes you short. To test this statement, I would look at data stating the average height of both male and female gymnasts during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Then, I would examine the type of impact gymnasts endure on their bodies and determine through medical…[Read more]