Seth Keatley

A KPI that I use on a regular basis is the treadmill at the gym. It tells me how far I’ve run, being specific and measurable. It also allows me to pick from different workout routines, being achievable. It lets me know how many calories I’ve burned, being relevant. And it lets me know how long I’ve been working out, referencing time.

A data driven service such as Amazon would have product name and SKU. There would also be columns for prices/the vendors that sell them. Each row would represent an individual product.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-measure-let-isps-sell-your-data-without-consent-n742316
This article discusses how President Trump just recently signed legislation that would allow internet service providers (ISPs) to sell your browsing history without your prior consent. Although they are not selling specific individuals’…[Read more]

Representing the regional branch manager of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, we created three KPIs using the S.M.A.R.T. criteria.
1) The amount of sales made by each salesperson per month
2) The amount of minutes each employee is late per week
3) The amount of complaints filed against each employee per year
Seth Keatley, Max Snyder, Whitney…[Read more]

I have not made any of the mistakes that the author listed, but if I had to choose a mistake that would be the most detrimental, I would think removing something from the server would be the worst. If you accidentally remove something from a server, it could possibly be gone forever. Also if the server you are working on is company-wide, then…[Read more]

http://www.macworld.com/article/3174344/consumer-electronics/nokia-will-use-its-withings-health-devices-to-send-data-to-your-doctor.html
This article is about how Nokia recently acquired a technology company (Withings), and plans to send health information gathered by your devices to your doctor. This is an interesting concept because it will…[Read more]

When looking back at Hoven’s article, I thought the idea of “asking why” was the most important. I feel like anyone is capable of gathering data, but I think it takes a lot of refined skill to truly analyze why the data is the way that it is. When you begin to ask why, you start to dig into possible reasons for things occurring; which I believe…[Read more]

What struck me most about our discussion regarding bias in data was the notion that is an inherent part of data and information. These outlying pieces are in every dataset, because no data set is perfect. When I was shopping for Christmas presents this past December on Amazon, some of the reviews reflected a bias. The reviews on Amazon are…[Read more]

http://fortune.com/2017/01/22/climate-data-trump-admin-hackers/
This article discusses the efforts that are underway to secure data collected by U.S. government agencies (EPA, and NOAA) in order to prevent its destruction under trumps administration. Some data regarding the climate has already been destroyed under the orders of the Canadian PM.…[Read more]

One piece of conventional wisdom that comes to my mind is, “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.” The phrase means that if something is functioning as it should be, then there is no need to tinker around with how it is working. Some data I would want regarding this statement would be how efficiently the thing is working. If the thing is working,…[Read more]