Xiaoxue Xia

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/30/clean-streets-mobile-laundry-service-australia-homeless-orange-sky
This article talks about that a few people in Australia start to provides free laundry service out of a van to homeless people. This service involved in almost about 500 volunteers. I think it is interesting because I think these…[Read more]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/apple-fbi-privacy-encryption-fight-san-bernardino-shooting-syed-farook-iphone

The article is talking about Apple’s attitude on sharing their customers’ information in the iPhones. They believe that the privacy should be protected but the FBI wanted the information to help them in a crime. I…[Read more]

I think the most important principle of the eight is simplicity. The most important thing of data is to make audiences understand in order to leverage the data. Data visualization will be meaningless if it is not simple enough for audiences to understand. It will be insufficient and other essential parts in the data will not been seen by the…[Read more]

The most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday is knowing the power of data. It is very useful and many things can be inferred from it. In a cmpany, the data can tell things like the preferences of products from customers, the efficiency of employees and the performance of a company to influence the fianl decision. It is a…[Read more]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fivethirtyeights-guide-to-predicting-the-oscars/
This article is establishing the Oscar model of predicting candidates for different awards like the best actor, the best picture, the best director and the best supporting actress. This model is built based on their prediction of the insight of the Oscar Award…[Read more]

An example of conventional wisdom is that Americans think Chinese students are smart and good at Math. In fact,one reason is that Math is taught differently and more difficult in China. Besides,this statement does not apply to all the Chinese students. To test it, I would give out IQ tests to every chinese student in one university and also ask…[Read more]