Scarlet Wu

For Instagram,
The rows would be the individual’s profile
The columns would be the followers and the people one is following

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/your-android-apps-are-secretly-getting-chatty-with-your-data-0176896/
Through DIALDroid, researchers from Virginia Tech were monitoring the exchanges of data between apps on Android. The team found that over 110 thousand apps were mining information from each other without asking for permission first. For the…[Read more]

I like to check my credit score through the Discover app that I have. It is not something that I use on a daily basis but I mostly go on there to see how I am doing. There are many factors that go into how the credit score is formed and they can be considered as the KPIs. According to the SMART criteria, Specific, Measurable, Relevant and…[Read more]

I had an experience with number 4, it was during my high school year when i was trying to sort my data from my bio lab and I accidentally forgot to select all of the columns. It was not something that could be easily fix and i have learned my lesson since then. The one thing I would mostly want to avoid is working on the database w/o doing a full…[Read more]

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/25/technology/data-refuge-saving-data/
Data Refuge is a volunteer group of hackers, scientists, writers and students. Their main goal is to preserve the collected federal data and keep it publicly accessible. The group found that the White House has removed all federal data from the site. The site now only…[Read more]

I think the most important principle would have to be the ‘View Diversely’. Data is provided to one in a daily basis but if the person viewing the data do not have any insights into it then pretty much the data would be useless to that person. Having different views would provide different insights on the same data and through the different…[Read more]

The most important takeaway from the talk on Thursday would be when he was telling the class of the story about how because of the one information he found from the data, he helped to improve the sales. It got me thinking about how there are many of us who are faced with data from our day to day life but we do not know the importance of the data…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/28/apple-app-store-pokemon-go-no-sign-of-stopping-sales-booming
“Pokémon Go and no sign of stopping: Apple’s App Store sales boom,” As a company that is known well throughout the world, it is constantly improving itself. Apple is now focusing on the sales of the App store since profits can be ma…[Read more]

Statement: Profitability does not matter.
In running a successful business, profitability is what makes the business successful and keep it from closing down. The data I would collect would be the sales of different businesses and based on the sales I have collected, I could then predict which business is more likely to shut down faster than…[Read more]