Rhea R Prabhu

Rhea & Maris

Bad infographic:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/25/opinion/20081025_opart.html

Focusing on the bias present in all data was an important reminder to step back and reevaluate my rationale behind data driven decisions. Most recently, I reexamined my reasoning behind the CAPSIM decisions I made for my Integrative Business Apps class. The data my team used to make decisions for our Round 2 decisions was based off our results…[Read more]

The dataset I chose from OpendataPhilly is called, “Visualizing Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Change Process” (http://penniur.upenn.edu/publications/visualizing-philadelphias-neighborhood-change-process). The data demonstrates the varying levels of attention the neighborhoods of Philadelphia have received as investors look to get into real estate in…[Read more]

The article I found to be interesting was titled, “Is a 50-state Poll As Good As 50 State Polls?” It explores whether one comprehensive poll of all 50 states is equivalent in information relayed as 50 small polls, one for each of the 50 states added together. Results concluded that these two polls actually do not convey the same information. I…[Read more]

A piece of conventional wisdom that I receive frequently is to get a good night’s sleep- that is 8 hours a night. Without getting 8 hours of sleep a night, it is said that one will not be as productive or refreshed the next day. However, I know plenty of people who function on a high level on just a few hours of sleep a night. To see if 8 hours of…[Read more]

I am working as BAS (business advisory service) intern at Grant Thornton’s Philadelphia office this Summer. The opportunity allows for me to explore many areas within advisory, which after talking to my resource manager about my interests, I will be assigned to. My first client is in financial services and insurance. I will work on creating scope…[Read more]

The ability to use excel efficiently is very useful for formatting data and reports. In addition, the skills I learned in 3504 have been extremely useful for my first project as I am sitting in on design and requirements gathering meetings to be able to write scope documents and uses cases. I have had practice at doing this in 3054 and learned…[Read more]

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