Vanessa Ioannidi

The most important takeaway I gained from this course is a clearer, more holistic understanding of data analysis, the tools used, and how data analysis permeates multiple aspects of our everyday lives. If I had to explain this course to a future scholar, I would say that MIS0855 focuses on methods of storing, organizing, analyzing, and…[Read more]

Subject: Which Big 5 Philly School has the Safest Campus?
Members: Vanessa Ioannidi, Zach Burkhardt, Jacqueline McCarrik, and Jeffrey Angstadt

One data-driven service that I use quite frequently is Instagram. The rows would represent different Instagram accounts. Some of the columns would include: the person’s user name, the number of pictures, the number of followers, the number of people followed, average likes per picture, and the number of tagged photos.

The article “Reading by the Numbers: When Big Data Meets Literature” discusses professor Franco Moretti’s revolutionary way of close reading texts through the use of computers. Distant Reading is defined as the computer-assisted crunching of thousands of…[Read more]

A KPI that I frequently use is the amount of sleep I get in a night. I have sleeping issues, so when I don’t get a good 6+ hours in, I become irritable, groggy, anxious, and stressed. Sleep enables me to perform better in my classes and contributes to an overall healthier lifestyle. I measure my sleep by calculating how many hours I get each…[Read more]

I haven’t used excel much in the past, so I haven’t had the chance to really make one of the mistakes mentioned in the article. But, I’m sure it will happen at one point or another. I think it is very important to avoid not doing a full back up that way, all of your work is up to date, you don’t have to back-track because you already saved it.…[Read more]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/manchester-soars-london-records-real-house-price-falls/

This article is about a day in the life of a London uber driver. Recently, London has placed a ban on uber partly because of their failure to report sexual assaults to the police. The article provides maps and graphs that show the route of…[Read more]

To me, I think that viewing data diversely is one of the most important points of the 8 Core Principles. Many times, people tend to view data in one way: their own. By viewing data diversely, one opens up the possibility of having numerous interpretations. These different interpretations lead to other ways of analyzing data. Different…[Read more]

http://fortune.com/2017/09/07/barnes-noble-books/
This article deals with Barnes and Noble book store, and how it is falling behind its competitor, Amazon, in sales. The article includes a graph which shows that sales compared to last year have gone down -6.30%. I find this extremely interesting because Barnes and Noble is my favorite store. In…[Read more]

One example of conventional wisdom I often hear is the belief that you will get a cold if you go outside with wet hair. Could this be true? Every time I go out in cold weather after a shower I always fear getting sick. In order to test this, it is important for one to understand what a cold really is and how one “catches” it. It would also be…[Read more]