Samantha Ann Regan

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I haven’t done much work with excel, so I have never had much of a change to make these mistakes. I would say the most important thing to keep in mind while working in excel is to remember while working on the databases to do a full backup first. It’s important to back up any work when working on anything so if for some reason it exits you don’t…[Read more]

In my opinion, “Simplify” is the most important of Stephen Few’s 8 core principles. For data visualization to be successful and come across clearly to it’s readers it needs to be simple. For example, in Tuesday’s class we viewed good and bad data visualizations but when the charts or diagrams used were confusing or poorly organized it was hard to…[Read more]

Big Data Analytics: Do Machines Have Biases?

This is an article that reminded me of a topic we discussed during on of our classes. If we did not discuss it during class I would think it is ridiculous to say that computers or machines have biases like humans do. Although, during class we said how if you search an item…[Read more]

One example of conventional wisdom is that salt is harmful to a person’s diet and health. We think of that today as common sense but in reality it has little evidence that can back that statement up. Scientists have recently found that too little of salt in someone’s diet can be more harmful. We can try and test this by gathering two people…[Read more]