Sarah A Vickalitis

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/there-are-way-more-homeless-students-than-there-used-to-be/
This article is about the rates of homeless students increasing in our nation. Some data scientists believe that the number of homeless students is not increasing, instead scientists getting better at identifying them. I personally have to side with…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/there-are-way-more-homeless-students-than-there-used-to-be/
This article is about the rates of homeless students increasing in our nation. Some data scientists believe that the number of homeless students is not increasing, instead scientists getting better at identifying them. I personally have to side with…[Read more]

Simplifying data is most important because a visualization make things much easier to comprehend. Simplifying data helps give the viewer a better understanding of what they are looking at instead of someone trying to retain a list of random data sets.

What I took away from Michael Dagar’s talk on Thursday was that the term Big Data is trending and also becoming a huge part of todays business world. Data is everywhere and it can be analyzed to make important decisions in all types of business. Analyzing data is even used right here at Temple according to Dagar’s presentation. He compared d…[Read more]