Samantha Elizabeth Simmons

I think the most important takeaway from last weeks class was the biases we face when collecting data. Particularly, we face many biases with data retrieved from online sources such as yelp. Yelp can be a very useful piece of data. However, the data found on yelp can be subject to many biases. We were talking in class about people’s emotions being…[Read more]

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-accounting-data.htm

Accounting data is a very important resource in today’s society. I was very interested in this article because it explained how accounting data is used to detect and prevent fraud and embezzlement. This is particularly interesting to me because I am an accounting major looking to get into the…[Read more]