Steven Myers Hollander

From my perspective, the most important takeaway from this course is learning how to use Tableau. In this class and especially in the Data Analysis challenge, I really learned to use Tableau and how it would benefit me in a future job. If I had to explain what this course was about, I would say that this class is about data and how to analyze data…[Read more]

I check my grades everyday on Blackboard. The rows would represent the different classes the student is in. In the columns would be upcoming assignments, grades, and notes. Blackboard is a great resource most students use in college in order to stay on top of their academics.

The article I read was “The 2016 Cubs Were Only The 70th Most Dominant Team Ever” and was found on FiveThirtyEight. There is a table that shows the best teams of all time ranked by composite elo. Elo ratings are a measure of relative team strength. In this article, I learned the New York Yankees came up most often on the best teams list. I enjoyed…[Read more]

A KPI I use everyday is my total number of steps displayed on my Garmin watch. On days I run it also tracks my average pace, distance, and heart rates. My goal changes daily and pushes me to do more activity each day. I can go on the Garmin app on my phone and check my activity from one week to another and make sure I’m keeping up. I can also…[Read more]

I haven’t made any of those mistakes as I have not done much work in Excel. I think the most important mistake to avoid is sort a spreadsheet, but not include all the columns. Using Excel’s select all function, empty columns won’t be included. This could be a major problem in organizing a spreadsheet with a lot of data.

The article I chose was “Hurricane Matthew’s US death toll rises to 33 as flooding chaos continues” which is found on the Guardian Data Blog. I always like to stay up to date with current events. This event is especially relevant to me as I am from Florida and all of my friends go to school back home. I kept up to date with this hurricane and kept…[Read more]

After reading “Stephen Few on Data Visualization: 8 Core Principles,” I think the most important principle is to ask why. We need to know why something is happening and many people do not focus on this key principle. When viewing data, most would just try to understand the relationships and trends. But, more importantly if we can understand why s…[Read more]

The most important takeaway I received from last week’s discussion is that you have to be aware of what data you’re looking at before you believe it is true. Often times data can be biased or misinterpreted. Today, I looked around online in order to find a good quality barber near campus. I found a few different places and used data such as the…[Read more]

The dataset I found was Impaired Driving Death Rate, by Age and Gender, 2012, All States on data.gov. I found it interesting to see which states have the worst impaired driving death rate and which states have few impaired driving deaths. Also, it was interesting to see what age was the most common for each state in impaired driving. I learned…[Read more]

The article I found interesting on Flowing Data’s website is “Serena Williams, greatest of all time.” Being a tennis player, I find anything about tennis interesting to read up on. In this article, I found it especially fascinating with the use of data to show how Serena Williams has been so dominant. Data really helped me to understand just how…[Read more]

A common phrase told is an apple a day keeps the doctors away. Most people accept this statement as true and include fruits such as apples in their daily diet. In order to prove this as true, I would conduct a study involving the number of visits a person has with the doctor and how often they consume apples. But, in order to stay away from having…[Read more]