Xiaowen Yang

In my personal experience of using excel, I do not remember that I have made any mistakes. Every time before I use the excel or any computer programs I do save the document, because I know I should do that and I don’t want to redo the work, especially when the work is very complicated and needed a lot of time to finish. And according to the…[Read more]

http://www.amny.com/weather/nyc-weather-wind-advisory-and-heavy-rain-predicted-1.11497892

There is an article about NYC weather: Wind advisory and heavy rain predicted. In this article I am interesting about how heavy this rain will be. I have plan to go there and I want to know how long it is raining. According to the article, there are lots…[Read more]

In the article: Stephen Few on Data Visualization: 8 Core Principles. I think the most important principle is “Simplify”. Because, the purpose of data visualization is make the complex and plenty data to being easily look and understand. And like Stephen Few said in his article, data visualization is just like a tool; how we use tools in our lif…[Read more]

The most important thing which I learn from the presentation of Maurice Whetstone is that the value of data. In this society, every walk of life needs to collection many of data to prove their opinions or ideas. All data are really important to a research. Such as a company uses data to prediction market and gives direction of the development…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-uber-making-nyc-rush-hour-traffic-worse/
I find this article from FiveThirtyEight and it is talking about a very popular ride-to-hire company which is Uber. The main topic for this article is Uber making NYC rush-hour traffic worse. I am interested in about this article because I really like using Uber than…[Read more]

There is one example of conventional wisdom that I heard and I also believe it is true. It is if you read more books in you childhood you will become smarter. When people were young, their knowledge of world wasn’t clearly and maturity and their mind easily being affected by outside factors. So people can understand the world and get knowledge t…[Read more]