Peter Nysch

A great example of a data driven app I use daily is a little game on my phone Clash of Clans. The owner of the app can collect all the information of User’s email, username and level and compare how much consumers are spending (in real dollars) to achieve that level. It would be interesting to see since it is a free to play game but also has many…[Read more]

http://foodfitphilly.org/eat-healthy-on-a-budget/ I think this article is interesting because it gives you information on how to spend the most of your money. It supports local small-business corner store owners. the article shows what corner stores you can visit with what budget to get the healthiest food possible. With obesity rates so high,…[Read more]

an example of a KPI would be tracking the weight you can pump out at the gym. It is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and for some people time-bounded. It’s really useful when you track your weight so you can see your growth and projections of where you should be at a certain point in time.

https://trumpcare.com/trumpcare-vs-obamacare/ This infograph shows the differences between Obamacare and Trumpcare (which will be voted on today by the house of representatives). I picked this because it affects all americans and the differences between Obamacare and Trumpcare are vast. For example, the individual mandate would be eliminated under…[Read more]

I believe the most important core principle is “Be Skeptical.” It’s easy to plug in a bunch of data and go with your first answer. Take your results with a grain of salt. It should be important to realize an inconsistent answer and if the answer isn’t what you expected, analyze whats going in and how its producing the answer you got

I have only been exposed to Excel very few times, and when I was I was always careful with which cell referenced what. For example, I had to make a bunch of probability distributions and their respective graphs for my Actuarial Prob & Stat course last semester. every cell had to be in reference to certain criteria (trials, successes, failures) so…[Read more]

https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/005/ This data visualization shows the progression of US expansion from 1790 to 1890. The visualization represents the transition from being a primarily agrarian society to a more urban society. This visualization also shows a line graph with time on the x axis and “the percent of population living in…[Read more]

http://flowingdata.com/2017/01/27/immersive-digital-waves-to-visualize-nature/ Not so much direct data used objectively to solve a problem. The type of data collected are real-time weather patterns all around the world. Instead of using that data to predict weather patterns for the future, an artist decided to use it to create elegant waves. These…[Read more]

A piece of “conventional wisdom” I have come across is that pressing an elevator button multiple times does NOT make the elevator come faster. The type of data that I would collect to test this is elevator travel times. Have the elevator begin on a specified floor and call the elevator twice. Once by only clicking the button once and again by…[Read more]