Max Snyder

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MIS3535 Lead Global Digital Projects- Weekly Progress reports

MIS3535 Lead Global Digital Projects- Weekly Progress reports

1. The subject of our group project is whether lenient gun control laws leads to higher suicide rates.

2. My fellow scholars are James Dean, Whitney Libebe, and Seth Keatley.

My most important take away from this class would be how to properly use Excel. Since my major is accounting I believe there is a chance that I will be using excel in order to create spreadsheets for maintaining balances, so leaning how to use this program effectively will allow me to increase my efficiency. If I had to explain what this course is…[Read more]

Max Snyder, James Dean, Whitney Libebe, Seth Keatley

https://www.wsj.com/articles/citizens-bankers-say-they-faked-data-for-customer-meeting-program-1490811468

This article was interesting to me because I was considering opening an account inside of Citizen Bank but after reading this article on how the were creating false data just to meet their customer quotas I decided otherwise. In this…[Read more]

An example of a KPI would be a heartbeat monitor used in hospitals. It specifically measures the heart rate in beats per minute for the purpose of keeping the patient alive, which is achievable. The heartbeat is also relevant to the success of the goal since the patient will die if there is no heart beat meaning if the heart is not beating you…[Read more]

I haven’t made any of these mistakes simply because I haven’t used Excel enough to actually make these mistakes in the first place. However I believe the most important mistake to avoid would probably be Number 6: Missing the Data Type. If you were to miss the data type that could lead to an error in the data as you are organizing it. If this…[Read more]

I think that the simplify step is the most important core value of Stephen’s 8 principles. My reasoning for this is that the purpose of data science is to convert raw data into useful information, and the only way to make that data useful is to simplify it in a way that can be understood by everyone. By simplifying the data we are also able to…[Read more]

The most important takeaway from the bias and signal problem for me was that you should always be skeptical with the data that you are using. An example of this is when I was working on a project for another class on government surveillance. If I had just looked at what data the government was collecting using conspiracy nut websites I would…[Read more]