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Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
The most important takeaway from this course is learning about how data gets corrupted and how can we clean the data. I also improved my critical reasoning skills. Also getting a brief knowledge about tableau, hadoop and how companies employ them in order to deal of massive amounts of data was really helpful.
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Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
1. The subject of our group project is “Do college students benefit more by entering the NBA after just one year vs. staying all four.”
2. Group Members: Parth Desai, Carl Green, Joshua David, Addison Hunsicker -
Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
As a Temple Student, I use Blackboard regularly, If I were to store data recorded in spreadsheet, grade would be my primary row. Some the columns would be Class Name, Instructor Name, Attachments (or Course Documents), Location, Class Timings, Announcements.
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Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/
This article discusses about the merger and acquisitions of petroleum and other gasoline liquids in United States of America. I like the data in article provided because is it simple, to the point and most importantly easy to understand. Moreover the writer has aptly used different types of graphs such as bar…[Read more] -
Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 7 years, 12 months ago
Like most of the students, I use GPA or grades in one course or entire semester as one of the Key Performance metrics. The overall GPA or grade in particular course is reliable indicator of my performance. It measurable since we get numeric scores on scale of 0-4.0. It achievable since a low gpa score indicates that I need to improve or work hard…[Read more]
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Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
I have worked with excel in couple of my projects while I was interning. The most common mistake I have made is #4 sorting a spreadsheet and not including columns. When your are given large data sets, its very easy to ignore few columns. And as a result, it very likely that the data analysis result wouldn’t be accurate. Moreover when your are…[Read more]
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Parth V Desai posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
From Hoven’s article “Stephen Few on Data Visualization: 8 Core Principles” , I think the most important principle of good data visualization is “Simplification”. The data graph presented should be simple, as in easy to understand. The data visual should convey what it is trying to say/project in simple manner to the audience. If the visual is…[Read more]