Sophia Oluwatomiwa Olugbodi

First of all I like the fact that I am familiar with tableau and excel in this class. My biggest takeaway from this class is how data can be used, manipulated or visualized in order to enable users make important decisions, make predictions in different situations, develop performance indicators, educate users on different issues, help businesses…[Read more]

So far in this class, my biggest takeaways include familiarity with tableau and Excel; How data can be used, manipulated and visualized in order to tell a story, create knowledge to enable users make important decisions, make useful predictions , educate people on certain issues, help business build strategies, develop performance indicators and…[Read more]

My priority registration for classes is on Monday the 14th and we use the class registration data under the banner system. In order to construct a preferred class schedule for next semester, I created a spreadsheet of data from the class registration system. The rows on this spreadsheet include: name of the class, Name of Professor, Days of the…[Read more]

I found an article titled “How to View Richer Year for the Poor and Middle-Class”. The article talks about how the rise in income over the years and how it is significant because there was a substantial reduction in poverty in the economy. The article also uses data Visualization that looks like bar codes. I found this very interesting because I…[Read more]

I have this app on my tablet that reminds me to drink water every hour. The app calculated how much water I should be drinking everyday according to my body weight. I am required to drink at least 1.8 Liters of water daily so I get a reminder every hour to drink 300ml until i have reached my goal. This KPI is specific and measurable because…[Read more]

I remember when we were being trained on Microsoft excel in high school. For a class exercise, we were supposed to use the VLOOKUP function to compare values in a column on an array to values in another specified column. Instead, I used the HLOOKUP Function and I got an error. I would’nt call this a mistake because then I did not understand the…[Read more]

The article i found was on FiveThirtyEight. This article talks about the Obamacare law and how it has improved the health care insurance coverage in the united states. At first there was a negative reaction to the establishment of this law, which is why many of the primary election candidates used it as a campaign point at the beginning of this…[Read more]

I found this article on FiveThirtyEight. I decided to explore political side because I realized I have not shown enough interest in related topics. The article i found is on the Obamacare law.It explains how the law has increased insurance coverage all over the country. The article first of all cites the beginning of this years election when most…[Read more]

This article is very interesting to me because I am an accounting major. the article shows how the importance of big data in accounting and audit is is gradually and slowly growing and the need for audit firms to transition to the use of big data in effectively detecting fraud. It also explains the challenges and barriers that accounting firms…[Read more]

Many individuals do not travel by flight due to fear of air crash inicdients. A lot of people would rather go by road because they believe it is safer than air transportation. In my opinion this is a conventional wisdom. And to test it i would compare the rate at which air crash incidents occur in a year to the rate at which car accidents occur in a year.