Raymond Xu

If I were to hold data for a service like that I would use an excel sheet to hold information that we need on users. If I were using an information storing system like amazon I would keep track on customers interests and specific info that I need to hold to make sure sales are up. I would rows for the types of categories each customer purchased. I…[Read more]

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/tripledoubletracker/follow-russell-westbrook-triple-double-chase
Russell Westbrook is having a historic season. Right now in the league he is averaging a triple double. He is on his way to being the player with the most triple doubles in a season. On this website it shows graphs and charts of how Westbrook is…[Read more]

I haven’t made these mistakes before. If I did have to pick one that I felt was the most important it would be “Don’t miss a data set”. I feel like this is important because if you miss a data set then you will be missing information. Without the information it will be hard to create an excel spreadsheet at all. Even so missing one set of data can…[Read more]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/mvp.html

Last time I was focusing on basketball players and their percentages in shooting. This time I am looking at leaders of the MVP race in the NBA and what makes them good enough to be an MVP. In this chart it shows all aspects of an NBA player. This is anything from percentages to shooting,…[Read more]

Out of the eight principles I think the most important principle was the “ask why” principle. I feel like there is never an end to asking why because you can always keep asking the question why. How could the world’s unanswered questions be answered without being asked why first. By asking why you can answer questions and find out more about…[Read more]

http://buckets.peterbeshai.com/app/#/playerView/201935_2015

I would say this kind of represents a scatterplot matrices. In my research during this time I focused on James Harden. This just showed how his percentage rates are with shooting. Also it shows how accurate and consistent he is in certain spots where he usually tries to score. How…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom that I’ve heard is “if at first you don’t succeed try,try again.” I would test this hypothesis by selecting various different tasks and seeing if doing it over and over again could help a person succeed at this task. For example a task like walking on water is impossible for a human. Even if you try several times…[Read more]