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Shruthi Shyamala posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Sociologists urge use of big data to study human interaction
This article was extremely interesting especially to me as an anthropology major. The article states that sociology experts are urging sociologists and social psychologists to focus on developing online research studies with the help of big data in…[Read more]
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Shruthi Shyamala commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by March 9, 2017, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I feel like if I used excel on a more day to day basis, I could definitely be prone to making one or some of these mistakes but the lack of Excel use makes it hard to say I have made any of these errors before. The error which would be most important in my eyes is probably case 4 that the author presents which states “Number 4: Sort a spreadsheet,…[Read more]
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Shruthi Shyamala commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 16, 2017, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
Although all the eight core principles Stephen Few recognizes seem to hold equal importance, personally I think in data visualization, the principles of “simplify” is most important. This seemed most crucial to me in displaying data because if the data is represented in a confusing or messy manner, the message of its importance will be hard to…[Read more]
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Shruthi Shyamala commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
Brian Long’s talk on Thursday helped me realize the relevance of innovation and understand that big data is used in various manners. I thought it was interesting how he pointed out the various ways to target consumers via big data.It was pretty incredible to see how much twitter bought his start up company for. Overall, I think I learned that big…[Read more]
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Shruthi Shyamala posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Found this article really interesting as of current events that are happening right now and its effects on our country. They discuss the possibility that Trump’s supreme court candidate selection could technically overturn Roe v. Wade…[Read more]
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Shruthi Shyamala posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
One example of conventional wisdom you commonly hear is the concept that “you get what you deserve” while in many circumstances this may be a valid statement, there are plenty of examples that this statement can be proved as conventional wisdom, for example if a man and woman in the acting industry work the same roles but the woman get paid less,…[Read more]