Tabby Miller

To me, the most important takeaway from this course is learning to use Tableau. Tableau is a powerful data visualizing tool and understanding how it works helps me at my job currently, and I’m sure it will help me later in my career as well. If I were explain this course to a student, I would say that it’s about understanding data and how you can…[Read more]

A data-driven service I use regularly is email. The rows of data would subject line and the columns would be recipient, whether or not there were attachments, length of the message, and date sent.

The members in my group are Allen Lin, Andrew Zarilli, Clark Dumblauskas, and Shane Fowler. The subject of our project is food scarcity in the continental United States and its potential relationship to poverty rate, geographic location, and population ethnicity.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/datablog/2017/mar/18/the-fall-and-rise-of-physical-book-sales-worldwide-in-data

The article I chose is about the changes in the worldwide book market. I found it interesting because it shows how correlation does not equal causation. On first glance, one might assume that a fall of physical books sales is caused…[Read more]

A KPI I use on a regular basis is attendance of club meetings for Temple University’s American Marketing Association. It is specific because it is the amount of people in attendance of a certain meeting, measurable because it’s possible to count the people in attendance at a meeting, achievable because we can affect attendance by email reminders…[Read more]

I’ve accidentally made mistake number four from the article (sort a spreadsheet, but not include all the columns). Some of the columns in my spreadsheet were separated by an empty column, so the columns on the other side of the empty columns weren’t’ sorted. My data was across rows, so the values got mixed up between the rows and I had to go back…[Read more]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumpbeat-is-trump-already-messing-with-government-data/

I found this article interesting because it discussed how data can be abused to sway opinions and further personal agendas. By manipulating data so that it fits with a conclusion a certain party believes in instead of using data to form conclusions,…[Read more]

I think the most important of the eight principles of data visualization is Compare. Data isn’t as meaningful if it isn’t accompanied by something to compare it to. For example, simply showing a company’s sales for this year doesn’t mean much if you’re not also looking at how it compares to past years. You don’t know if the sales are improving or…[Read more]

I think the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was the importance of data to a business. I learned that data is critical to decision making. Companies need to be able to interpret data efficiently to be able to make the best decisions. Because data is so critical to decision making, the data used has to be reliable. This ties…[Read more]