Moeed Faisal

The most important takeaway from this class is an understanding of data and the ability to be skeptical of misleading or bad data and misleading or bad visualizations of data. Through the learning of programs like excel and tableau we come to intimately understand data and it’s uses, we come to understand the power that comes with working with…[Read more]

One data driven service I often use is Blackboard. Blackboard is the site we use to look at our grades and get updates from our teachers. The grading part should be easy to put into an excel document. The columns would be something like Class name, Section Number, CRN Number, Teacher Name, then there would be an id column. The rows would…[Read more]

Moeed Faisal, Keerthana Rachamadugu, Ethan Miller, Eric Rubark, Kevin Joseph

An example of kpi could be the amount of sugar i take into my body everyday. It’s specific in that I am talking about a certain chemical compound that isn’t necessarily healthy. It’s measurable in that I can look at the number of grams I intake. It’s attainable in that I can write down what I eat over the day and find the sugar content within…[Read more]

I know for a fact that I have made mistake number 3. Backing up work is one of the most important parts of doing work. It seems frivolous at first, but I’ve lost complete projects with 4+ hours of work because of forgetting to hit that control s. I see a lot of people saying it’s a huge waste of time, I don’t think it’s a huge waste of time…[Read more]

Out of the eight principles, I think that the most important would be to be skeptical. It is very important to question every result and try to prove things wrong. That way you can make sure a conclusion is correct – that is – if you cannot prove it wrong after being skeptical. There are always paths for biases to come out in data, and…[Read more]

My most important takeaway from last time’s discussion was the skepticism we always need when approaching data sets. Although we may have reduced error to a minimum, there is always something that can be questioned whether that be the sampling method, sample size, biases, or the Signal Problem. I recently used some data to find the best bagel…[Read more]