Tristan M Karten

Personally, I believe the most important takeaway from this course is understanding how data can be transformed and analyzed to help solve everyday business problems in short and long term scenarios. Learning to use different systems like SQL, Excel, and R/R studios opened my eyes and expanded my knowledge on how easily data can be recorded and…[Read more]

1) A business decision that could be made using a decision tree could be selecting and adjusting types of food to be placed on a restaurant menu. Data that can be collected and utilized for this decision would be highest selling dishes, costs, popularity, taste and ingredients. These factors will help determine which foods will sell better…[Read more]

The New York Times has been utilizing R technology since 2009 to support its developmental presentation data analysis and data visualization. NYT uses R language to develop and implement their data journalism on the website as well as the newspaper. New York Times graphics editor and R pioneer described R in a recent podcast as “The greatest…[Read more]

Surfing has always been a passion of mine; ever since I was seven years old I have always been drawn to the ocean and the sport of surfing. Almost every time I begin to paddle out into the ocean I start to think about how I can improve my surfing ability and skills. Due to the extreme technicalities behind the sport surfing there are countless…[Read more]