Zara Waters

I’ve been looking for a new apartment in Philadelphia and I’ve been using Trulia.com. To store the data on Trulia in a database, I would designate each row to be an individual listing with the address. Columns could be the location (neighborhood in Philadelphia), price, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, washer/dryer (yes or no), central A/C…[Read more]

This article is about the push to increase data literacy among diplomats and federal employees working for the State Department, Health and Human Services, and Department of Commerce. As the author explains, this push has risen from the demands of a more data-driven world in which numbers hold more value than words alone; diplomats have the…[Read more]

A KPI I use on a regular basis is an app I use at my job to record my hours called When I Work. It is specific and measurable; it saves and adds my weekly hours as I input them each day. It is achievable; I can monitor whether I need to work more or less to keep up with my budget and other financial obligations. It’s definitely relevant; I have to…[Read more]

I currently do not work with data outside of this class, so I haven’t made any of these mistakes to my knowledge. I feel like one of the worst, and likely the most frustrating, mistakes to make would be Number 3, beginning to work on a database without backing it up first. There is nothing more frustrating than neglecting to save your work as you…[Read more]

I found this article interesting because the author discusses ways to improve data literacy within organizations, which is a topic we’ve discussed in this course and also one that aligns with my personal career goals. I like the author’s simple approach to easing into becoming a “data organization,” as he says. He advises organizations start…[Read more]

I find that “Simplify” is the most important principle. My favorite aspect of Tableau is that it is highly navigable and very user-friendly, and that is very easy to create clean, straightforward data visualizations. It doesn’t take a data specialist to maneuver through the processes of creating data visualizations with Tableau, and so far I have…[Read more]

I believe corporations that rely on profit are immensely affected by data science. The market and intended audience change so frequently, in terms of demand and interests, that monitoring these changes through data is crucial in order to sustain sales. That said, these corporation’s marketing efforts are very important and the need to constantly…[Read more]

The belief that people who spend more time watching TV and using other electronics each day are considered lazy could be considered a theory of conventional wisdom. This theory could be tested by collecting the reasons people use their electronics through a survey (some people watch television or browse social media for work, others use it for…[Read more]

I came across an article about data literacy, which is a topic relevant to my major and my intended career path. This article discussed findings from Qlik, an organization dedicated to improving data literacy, which concluded that deficient data literacy in the workplace is keeping employees and companies from making “actionable insights,” or…[Read more]