Philip Mironov

The most important takeaway from this course is knowing how to use tableau. I believe this is a useful tool that can come in handy in the business world in the future. I would tell the future student to make sure to do every step of the in-class exercises as they are very important and also the best way to keep up with the material being taught,…[Read more]

I use blackboard almost everyday.
I would make the columns Grade, location, professor, credit hours worth. and then I would make the rows the names of classes. I could use this to track all the classes that I have taken and will take at Temple. Any other user could fill in his or her information as this is a very universal tool.

I think that the “be skeptical” part is the most important principle. The author is right when he says that we often take data that we get as facts. We need to be double checking to see that our data is as accurate as possible and comes from a source that is as unbiased as possible. The more accurate we make the data that we are putting in, the…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politicians-write-lots-of-books-heres-how-far-into-them-people-read/

I thought that this article was interesting as it explored an avenue of data that I think rarely is looked at. The way that the author of the article went about finding the data was also very interesting, despite the fact that there is no…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politicians-write-lots-of-books-heres-how-far-into-them-people-read/

I thought that this article was interesting as it explored an avenue of data that I think rarely is looked at. The way that the author of the article went about finding the data was also very interesting, despite the fact that there is no…[Read more]

Conventional Wisdom: Money cannot buy happiness.
People often state that money cannot buy happiness and people need to create their own happiness. I would survey people from different levels of the tax bracket. I would ask those who are living below the poverty line, middle class and upper class how happy and content they are with their lives. I…[Read more]