Robin Goetz

A data driven service I use daily is Blackboard. If I used a spreadsheet to save data for the website I would choose an assignment to be a single row of the sheet. The columns would be the name of the assignment, the due date, the date submitted, percentage reached, the class it was for, comments added by the professor. I think that this would be…[Read more]

I think the most important takeaway from this course was the hands on experience with tableau. It is great to find yourself finding all these meaningful insights from an excel sheet that has thousands of rows. Further, the course enabled me to get a basic understanding of what data is and how I can use it to help myself to learn more about the…[Read more]

What is the subject of your group project?
Terrorism around the world. Insights and patterns of attacks since 1970.
Which of your fellow scholars are in your group?
Tyler McCaw, Malik Lassiter, Parth Patel, Robin Goetz

From the eight principles Stephen Few discussed in his article, I believe that “Simplify” is the most important. When visualizing data you normally do that for an audience. While you are familiar with the data you are working with, often the people looking at the visualization are not. It is important to make the data accessible for them and allow…[Read more]

Kaia Bentsen, Pat Murt, Tyler McCaw

For me, the most important takeaway from our discussion regarding bias and the signal problem is that biases are inevitable when working with data. Humans are always involved when collecting data. They can be the ones that provide the data or the ones that designed a way to collect the data. It is human to be biased, humans create data, thus data…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-could-really-mess-up-mexicos-economy/
This article by Lucia He, which was published on fivethirtyeight.com, describes the negative influence of Donald Trump’s Anti-Mexiko way of politics. It uses analyzed data starting from the time he first introduced these ideas in his candidacy for president of the…[Read more]

One conventional wisdom, which is widely spread is the assumption that males are naturally better at science than females. To test this conventional wisdom I would start with collecting data on the grades of boys and girls of our standardized tests. The math section on the SAT test could be a first source of data, as it is easy to obtain and has…[Read more]