Nhi Nguyen

I have entered data into Excel file with the wrong format. I was creating a spreadsheet that calculate the work hours of students and faculty members, but Excel kept changing the dates and time into integers. As a result, when I needed to look up the information, everything was out of order and did not match with the original data.

From my perspective, “Ask Why” plays a key role in creating good data visualization. The purpose of creating a graph or chart is to make it easier people acknowledge of the information and see the connection between different data sets so as to come up with results and conclusions. Simon Sinek, one of my favorite motivational speakers, once said,…[Read more]

Team member: Chris, Dom, Nhi

The Child’s Developing Brain

In-Class Exercise 4.1: Finding Good and Bad Visualizations

– Good graphic: The graph provides detailed explanation, good color transitions, and two views of one brain. It is also really easy to read and understand.
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One key lesson that I took away from Mr. Celebi’s presentation is the importance of data analysis in predicting future consumer trends and mitigating external risks that might affect the company. By using technology with resourceful database, Turkish Airline is able to assist consumers’ demand and provide better service in other to remain as one…[Read more]

Forecasts have done a good job predicting Irmas shifting path: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/forecasts-have-done-a-good-job-predicting-irmas-shifting-path/

I find this articles really interesting as it mentioned the improvement of forecasting techniques over the few decades. It also stated that there were less errors in this decade than…[Read more]

Conventional Wisdom: Eating carrot will improve your vision.

Although it is true that carrot has lots of vitamin A, vitamin A can also be found in other sources such as dairy foods, eggs, or oily fish.

In order to test this statement, I would collect and read published paper on this issue from reliable university and institutes as my…[Read more]