Samuel Phillips

Certain things I’ve had to discover on my own were mostly little details. Things such as managers having their own rules aside from the main set of rules under one large umbrella. I was fortunate enough to have the ability to ask my coworkers questions whenever necessary and didn’t really experience any moments of not knowing what to do or what to…[Read more]

Hello all! This summer I had the privilege of working on the IT Audit Team at Wells Fargo. My office was located at the One South Broad Tower which is home to WF’s entire Philadelphia IT Audit branch. Throughout the US there are 6 branches including PHL. Though Audit is an extremely diverse field, IT Audit is narrowed down primarily to issue…[Read more]

Hello all, I hope your summer is going well so far! This summer I will be working as an IT Audit Intern as a part of Wells Fargo’s Audit Summer Internship Program. During this, I will learn the keys to financial services, auditing, and risk analysis as well as performing a number of audit projects within the department of risk management. I am…[Read more]

When looking back at the class I think I value a number of things that I learned. However, more than anything else, I found learning how to manipulate and read data in multiple different ways takes the highest level of importance. Now that I know how to input and output data in more than one way, I have no reason not to believe that this class…[Read more]

What advice would you give someone regarding how to select the right predictor variables for a decision tree analysis?

When it comes to the predictor variables, you want variables that will accurately help provide outcomes. With that being said, when the decision tree is made it is crucial that the predictor variables play a part in the…[Read more]

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/09/google-uses-r-to-calculate-roi-on-advertising-campaigns.html

Google uses R and has created a new package for R. This package enables them to take a look at the effects on an advertising campaign of website clicks. Their info graphic is simple to read and makes it so that a user who is not familiar…[Read more]

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/09/google-uses-r-to-calculate-roi-on-advertising-campaigns.html

In this article it’s stated that Google has used R as well as release a new package for R. This new package that they’ve created enables them to take a look at the effects of an advertising campaign on website clicks. The info graphic used…[Read more]

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2016/2/16/londons-expected-house-price-gain.html

The graphic regarding the prices of London homes stood out to me primarily due to the way the graphic flows and draws in the reader. What makes a good graphic is the goal of retaining the audience’s attention and making them truly withdraw the data from the…[Read more]

An instance where a join would be used is when a company who hosts servers needs to see where the majority of their customers are located. If they have a heavy demand and large customer base in a state(s) on the East Coast, they would pull data from the Customer table and Product table to see who purchased the more demanding server space and…[Read more]

The most difficult thing about creating an ERD from the problem was deciding what entities went where. At first you make the process and it seems right, but then you play out the process in your head and you start second guessing on where the entities should be placed. An easy fix for this is to simply read the problem repeatedly. There is no use…[Read more]

A few years back I worked for a car wash. It was the busiest wash in town and we would often have days where the line of cars was backed up onto the street a few blocks down. By taking the raw data from our average sales we were able to determine whether or not we would have enough soap and materials to withstand the massive demand on those busy…[Read more]