Tyler B Velez

Hi Sean. I totally remember seeing you. Your profile is looking good! See you at cecil if it ever stops raining.

Thank You! Your profile is looking good as well. Good luck in your studies.

The most valuable skills learned in the class was learning ways to use Tableau and Excel. However, the main purpose of the course is an introduction to data, and one of the most surprising things I learned about was the need to clean data sets almost as much as entering them.

For snapchat the first row could be username, snap score, and snaps per day then the columns under the first row could be the corresponding data. For example the data for my user would be column 1: tylervelez column 2: 22,262 column 3: 20 and it could continue down with more users.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2017-nba-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo
This article contains a lot of data about the NBA. It’s interesting to me because I follow the NBA closely and like to stay updated on the current events. It contains descriptive data of current team records and predictive data of a projected season record. It also has…[Read more]

A KPI I use on a weekly basis would be the hours I’m at work.
Specific: Exact amount of hours I spend on the job at a weekly basis
Measurable: I can access my hour logs via temples portal and the KRONOS system
Achievable: I may come in later or leave early depending on my hour goals and workload.
Relevant: How much time I spend at work can…[Read more]

I have not made one of those mistakes, but I think the most important to avoid for me would be number 9. For my job I do a lot of data entry into excel for clinical research studies, and formulas are almost always needed to interpret the integer data types. And often formulas are embedded in the spreadsheet itself. Formula errors will lead to…[Read more]

In my opinion the most important of the 8 core data principles is to “Attend.” I found the gorilla and ball video to be a very interesting example, and the analysis in the linked article was also valuable. It is incredibly easy for us to focus on unimportant data points especially when we are going in already looking for a trend we may miss…[Read more]

On of the most important takeaways I learned from Brian’s talk was that it is important to develop and innovate, but its also very important to be able to market it and convince others it’s a useful tool. I was amazed at the price in which twitter bought his startup and while it can be attributed to the development and innovation itself I was…[Read more]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo
Cool link with lots a data about the Premiere League Soccer in Britain. The three categories on the chart aren’t raw data but analyzed data that included a power index and two types of season predictions.

kinda unrelated
Go Man City! -My British roomate

A piece of conventional wisdom is that “A apple a day keeps the keeps the doctor away.” This could be tested by tracking people Apple consumption along with number non routine doctor visits.