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William McAndrews commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by November 30, on the site 6 years, 10 months ago
Although for me this class was a gen ed, I learned a far amount. I would say I improved my technical skills, I learned a lot about tableau and excel which are important skills to learn. That is what I would say as the most important takeaway from this class is the knowledge of how to use this programs. This programs are very useful skills to have…[Read more]
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William McAndrews commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by November 16, on the site 6 years, 11 months ago
I use Twitter a lot and if the data used from Twitter was placed into a spread sheet the rows would most likely consist of trending topics, tweets per day, number of total tweets, and most used hashtags.
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William McAndrews commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 9, on the site 6 years, 11 months ago
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-checking-facebook-stores-data-countrys-servers-banning-social-network-705709
I found this article interesting because it deals with the rights of a private company versus the rights of a sovereign nation. Russia wants the company to store data of Russian citizens on servers in Russia rather than outside the country…[Read more] -
William McAndrews commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by October 19, on the site 7 years ago
I have made a mistake listed in this article. I have made the mistake of number 6 multiple times. I miss type the data and it always comes back to confuse me and wastes my time fixing it. I would think mistyping the data is the more important to avoid cause if you put the data in incorrect fields you have to do more work to fix it.
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William McAndrews commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by October 12, on the site 7 years ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41590614
This is interesting to me because it highlights the growing threat of hacking/stealing data. Countries such as Australia are at risk to cyber attacks that could potential cause massive harm to the nation in this case their jet data was stolen in an extensive hack that where around 30 GB of data was…[Read more] -
William McAndrews posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
I think the most important principle of Hoven’s Eight core principles is be skeptical. You can’t believe everything that is on the internet especially data. For every 1 good graph or chart of data there is 3 more bad graphs out there to confuse people. Always do research and look into the data instead of blindly believing it.
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William McAndrews posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/data-protection-measure-removed-california-values-act
Here is an interesting article about data protection that has been revoked in the state of California. After the recent election, a rights group helped construct a bill that protects data collected by the government in regards to immigrants and does not…[Read more] -
William McAndrews posted a new activity comment 7 years, 1 month ago
One piece of conventional wisdom that I’ve heard is that you shouldn’t go outside when it is cold because you will get the common cold. One piece of data you can use to disprove or prove this statement is looking up data showing a link between common colds and cold weather. Another piece of data you could use is the data on the common cold posted…[Read more]