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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by April 27, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
The most important takeaway I got from taking this class would be how data is everywhere and there are many ways you can interpret data. I learned how to examine data on excel sheets and visualize it in charts on Tableau. Some of the assignments were difficult but I learned a lot and how to use columns and rows in Tableau and gather information…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
For Blackboard:
The columns would be:
-Course
-Professor
-Weekday/Time
-Prior Feedback
-Assignments
The rows would be:
-Course name
-Professor name
-Student Feedback and Ratings
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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Weekly Question #9: Complete by April 13, 2017, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
The scholars in my group are Ryan Harper, Yogi Patel, Jay Patel, and Adam Wolf. The subject of are group project is a specific bank stock price going up after Trump’s presidential election.
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Paul William Weeks posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-shift-to-the-suburbs-sped-up-last-year/
This article talks about Americans’ shift to the suburbs sped up last year. This is relevant to me because I live in the suburbs and have been there most of my life. The data census gathered 3,000 U.S. counties into six categories, which were large…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 23, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
A KPI metric that I use for performance daily would be my personal weight scale. This is specific and measurable to me as I can see the fluctuation of my weight on a daily basis. It is is achievable in that I can maintain a weight that I seem fit and make sure I stay relatively in shape. This is relevant to me as I am able to understand if I am…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by March 9, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
Since my experience with working Microsoft excel I have committed mistake number 6, which would be “Miss the data type.” This occurred when I was working at my front desk job at Temple and mistakenly misrepresented a date as an integer. Because of this mistake, the dates were messed up and did not correlate with the rest of the data I had in the…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
This article discusses the predictive validity of the NBA Draft Combine on the future performance of basketball players. The data is gathered by a principal component analysis (PCA) or principal component regression (PCR) that analyzes…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 16, 2017, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
In my opinion, the most important data visualization principle would have to be “Ask Why”. This is because many companies make decisions everyday on data; and never grasp the whole concept of why they made that choice. If business leaders and professionals, just take the time and day to comprehend their data decisions they will offer a…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
The most important thing I learned from Maurice and his presentation is that data is always evolving and can lead you to different business ventures. For example, Maurice emphasized his different retail jobs working at Coach bags and Urban outfitters and that you must have a dual personality by not only networking with customers but researching…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
This article is called, “Prepare For Next-Generation Retail: The Future of Retail Mobility”, discusses the trends in the retail business like hyper-connectivity, wearables, and augmented reality. This article…[Read more]
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Paul William Weeks posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
An example of conventional wisdom that I have encountered my whole life is “You don’t plan to fail you fail to plan”. This means that in life you don’t plan to fail but if you do end up failing it means you were poorly organized in your planning. Data that you could survey or gather would be different business ventures or startups that have…[Read more]