Shuyue Ding

I think the most take away from the class is how to understand data and get useful information from our daily life, because data is all around us, like everywhere in our life. I would say this course is about understand and be able to use data to a future MIS0855 scholar, and to be sure, at least understand bias, and be able to avoid it in the future.

I use blackboard regularly. If I want to store data in a spreadsheet. I think I will use rows represent different classes, and I use columns to represents the average score of different types of assignment and also exam. Then I can see the comparison between different classes, and see how I did.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/03/dallas-animal-services-saved-more-pets-than-it-euthanized-last-year.html/
I am a person who support adoption rather than buying pet, so I am interested in this article. The good news from this article is the euthanasia rate at record low. The shelter Dallas Animal Services says it found homes for 52…[Read more]

The KPI that I use everyday right now is how much time I walk my dog.

This is specific because my dog need to lost at least 10 pounds weight.
This is measurable, I use my phone to measure how much time I spend.
It is achievable, I believe it is achievable… She already lost 4.4 pounds.
It’s relevant, more walking can result more c…[Read more]

I made mistake like miss data type. I did not know what to do with those data after that. I will pay more attention about this.

http://aiddata.org/subnational-geospatial-research-datasets
I found this open data for international development. I am interested because I learned what open data is from class. This article is about sub-national, geospatial research datasets. This article introduce what benefits open data are and how thing is going in AirData. There are so many…[Read more]

In my opinion, the most important is simplify. The reason is simple. If a visualization is too complex, I already hate it before I try to understand it. I always try to avoid any complex visualization as much as I can. During the presentation, our audiences are likely not professional for graphs. If they already hate the visualization before your…[Read more]

I personal very carefully about the information I need to use to make decision. I cannot think of any decision that influence by bias, but I believe it does influence me. It is possible that I just did not notices. I believe bias exist everything and it influence a lot of people’s life. I will pay more attention into it. However, Signal Problem…[Read more]