Sergio Campos

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-injuries-to-steph-curry-and-chris-paul-affect-the-playoffs/
This week I read an interesting article on one of the biggest stars in the NBA, Steph Curry. Since his knee sprain in Game Four of the opening round of playoffs, multiple data sets have been created to find out what teams benefit the most from…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lebrons-3-point-shot-has-abandoned-him/
Lebron James is one of the NBA’s most dominating players. With the league changing and players shooting more three point shots than ever, it is key that he follows the trend and dominates that part of the game. However, a recent article on fivethirtyeight.com challenges…[Read more]

The most important principle from Hoven’s article “Stephen Few on Data Visualization: 8 Core Principles” is to be skeptical. More often than not, data visualizations can be skewed to benefit a person or topic of interest. It is very important to gather your own information, or check for errors before deeming the information credible and or resourceful.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from the class discussion is the topic of biases. Recently I have been trying to coordinate a birthday party for a close friend. I decided to use Yelp and other review sites to find a good restaurant to celebrate the cause. After reading many reviews i started to notice a bias trend that people either…[Read more]

Since this class started I have made a few of these mistakes while working in Excel. In my opinion, the biggest mistake you can make is number three. When you start working on the database without doing a full backup first, you risk the chance that the work you did will get deleted or erased due to a computer malfunction or your carelessness.