Vanessa Marin

I would think a good example of using decision trees would be helping a school district decide if there needed to be more public school added to a particular district.
Business questions: Do more public schools (K-12) need to be added to the school district of Philadelphia County?

Possible predictors/variables wold be: Census data: household…[Read more]

So… In class, as we all know, there was lots of moaning and groaning about the ease of use of R. Well good news (maybe?) is that R, specifically Revolution Analytics, the R-language and data crunching specialist, has been acquired by Microsoft in 2015! The main task of Microsoft is to make the data mining giant more user friendly and eventually…[Read more]

Thursday, June 6??

12 Myths About Sex

I very much enjoyed this infographic! It was entertaining and interesting. The graphic was easy to navigate as I didn’t have to guess what was the next point. The color scheme was fun and energetic and the verbiage was easily readable, and not threatening or intimidating for the…[Read more]

I believe the trickiest thing is determining the useful entities in a problem. Closely followed by determining the relationship between each entity. Once you have found both pieces of information, it’s much simper to look out for the descriptive words for each. A good idea to determine the entities is to list each NOUN in the scenario and the…[Read more]

I am currently working as a manager for a call center and we use metrics on a daily basis to analyze call times, hold times, transfer calls, phone monitoring protocols and scores, reason for the call, resolution, scheduling and a slew of other pieces of hard data. All this data is collected on a monthly basis either by manually monitoring recorded…[Read more]