Nicole Reilly

The most important takeaway for me is that big data is powerful. I realized that it is not as scary and overwhelming as it may seem, especially with tools like excel and tableau to manage data and incorporate it into every day life. Big data has a huge impact on many fields especially in business which makes this a valuable class to take.

A datadriven service I use daily is Blackboard. Blackboard lets you see your grades, course content, assignments and announcement for each all of your courses. The columns would be course name, CRN, professor’s name, grades, assignments, calendar and announcements.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gang-stats-arent-remotely-reliable-but-voters-keep-hearing-about-them-anyway/

This article talked about how politicians use gang statistics in relation to crime as a major facet of their campaigns. The article talks about how these statistics are incorrect but are still used anyway. It talks about how it is…[Read more]

A KPI that I use on a daily basis is the amount of money I spend a week using my debit card. It is specific from week to week and month to month depending on the amount of money i budget to spend. I set a specific amount of money I will be spending for that week. I use the TD Bank app as well as a personal finance app called Mint to measure and…[Read more]

I have made the mistake of clicking “yes” without reading what I am agreeing to. I am also guilty of working on a database without doing a full backup first. I have not had any major issues so far, only minor errors that I could remedy easily. However doing this is a huge risk; it only takes one time to make a huge error. These are bad habits tha…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence/

This article was interesting because of the perspective it took on mass shooting incidents in America versus in other countries. The article said that “Between 1966 and 2012, there were 90 such incidents in the U.S. The next four countries with the…[Read more]

I think the most important of the eight principles is “ask why.” Collecting the data is easy enough but it is harder to know why the data is the way it is. The goal of data visualization is to tell the story of the data, and to do that requires an understanding of what the data is, where it comes from, and why it is the way it is. Having a kno…[Read more]

In my opinion, the marketing and advertising industries are heavily affected by big data. Marketing and Advertising is constantly connecting data on consumers, how well advertisements are performing and how efficient marketing strategies are. Data from social media platforms alone bring in huge amounts of data that need to be processed and used to…[Read more]

http://data.philly.com/philly/parking/

I found a data set on opendataphilly.org about parking violations in the different neighborhoods in Philly. I found this interesting because you get to see which neighborhoods get the most parking tickets for the years 2012-2015. I learned that some neighborhoods have huge amounts of parking violations and…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom is that you get what you pay for.
To test it, I would collect data from from higher end goods (designer shoes, clothes, makeup, etc) and test it against cheaper alternatives (fast fashion, drug store makeup, etc.). I would test them for their durability, functionality and quality. I would test to see if there is…[Read more]