Sarah Trested

Lily Heinemann, Emma Girandola, Sarah Trested

Although I have never really made any mistakes with data, I would say #3, start working on the database without doing a full backup first, is the most important to avoid. I have been in situations where I forgot to press save and all my hard work was lost. I can only imagine how that would feel if I lost hundreds of columns of data information. It…[Read more]

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21716621-should-our-bankers-and-insurers-be-our-facebook-friends-big-data-financial

This article discusses social medias involvement with banks. It includes interesting data statistics involving a bankers ability to determine how likely someone is to pay back a loan, among other things. This…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from last week was the topic of data fundamentalism which is the notion that correlation always indicates causation, and that massive data sets and predictive analytics always reflect objective truth. There hasn’t really been a recent case in which I collected data, however, the first example I thought of…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stop-saying-trumps-win-had-nothing-to-do-with-economics/
This article discusses economics and its relationship with politics and the recent election. In the past, many people voted for the candidate with economics being the voters top priority. However, measures of racism and sexism, and markers of social…[Read more]