Walter Kirby

A data-driven service that I use daily is Blackboard. If I were to store the information from Blackboard into a spreadsheet, the first row would be the class. The next row could probably be the professor who teaches the class followed by any announcements/new posts to the page. After that, the following row could be about my grade in the class and…[Read more]

My biggest takeaway from this class is how big of a role and how big of an effect big data plays in our lives. Using Tableau and Excel really helped me understand the purpose of displaying data for consumers of the data to visualize. Although I had worked with Excel in the past, this semester has really allowed me to understand the full meaning of…[Read more]

The subject of our group project is studying the total value of all food expenditures by final purchasers.
The group members are myself, Jibreel Murray, Alison Kline, and Christopher DeClement

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mississippi-state-earned-every-bit-of-that-upset-over-uconn/
This article interested me because the UCONN’s women’s basketball team has been the best for many years now, as they had built up a 111 game win streak prior to this loss to Mississippi State. And prior to this win streak, the team had a massive…[Read more]

An example of a KPI I use is my debit card/bank account. It is specific and measurable because the money in my account is a precise number that permits my debit card to work. It is achievable because I can alter my spending to save more money and earn interest, if possible. It is relevant because that money in my account helps me pay for daily…[Read more]

Walter
Alison
Jibreel

Phillies
1) Ticket Sales
S – Funds the team/need money to fund the team and tickets make money
M – Amount of tickets sold per season
A – Set a goal for the amount of tickets you want to sell
R – Reflects interest in the team
T – Measure it over a period of seasons as the team…[Read more]

I have not had any of these happen to me. However, I believe number three, “Start working on the database without doing a full backup first”, is the most important. I think this is the most important because as David Taber said in his article, not doing a backup could lead to losing the data entirely. Forgetting to save the original file while you…[Read more]

In Hoven’s article, I think that the “asking why” principle is the most important. In order to properly collect data, people need to understand why that data was collected and presented. Anyone can do a data collection/data search, but not everyone can understand why that collection and search were done. Asking why provides people with an ability…[Read more]

What struck me the most in terms of bias and the Signal Problem was that there is no overall cure for bias. No matter what anyone does to make a sample better (i.e., have it be random, have a bigger sample, etc.) bias will always be present. There is no full proof method to fully eliminate bias. The best anyone could do is reduce it to the…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/under-a-new-system-clinton-could-have-won-the-popular-vote-by-5-points-and-still-lost/

This was a really interesting article to me because the past few months have been controversial about how Donald Trump did not win the popular vote. It has come up even more frequently in recent weeks as Trump has taken…[Read more]

One piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that eating green vegetables will make you stronger. I would take a random sample of 100 kids aged 16-18 who are relatively the same sized height and weight. I will evaluate each person’s muscle mass before any vegetable eating or working out has been performed. I will flip a coin, heads b…[Read more]