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Fall 2021 - Section 001 - Aleksi Aaltonen

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MIS 0855.004 ■ Spring 2022 ■ Aleksi Aaltonen
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What is a Relational Database?

February 23, 2022

This video demonstrates differences between a relational database and an Excel spreadsheet for storing data:

Filed Under: Blog

Reading Quiz for Week 7

February 21, 2022

Submit your answers to the reading quiz by the end of week (my mistake, I did not make the quiz available on last Friday!)

https://forms.gle/8LRZL9zZGMGgRWoo8

Filed Under: Weekly Quizzes

How Bad Data Ruins Your Day

February 21, 2022

Here are some of my favorite horror stories how things went wrong due to bad data:

https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/

Filed Under: Blog

2.2 Data Dictionary Submission Form

February 14, 2022

Submit your data dictionary using this form:

https://forms.gle/getFbeFo2Nh7TFqa9

Filed Under: Exercises

Infographics

February 14, 2022

Differences between infographics and data visualizations are discussed in these two posts:

https://www.statsilk.com/blog/real-difference-between-infographics-and-data-visualizations

https://killervisualstrategies.com/blog/difference-between-infographics-data-visualization.html

We use Piktochart to create an infographic on MIS0855, but there a numerous other web-based tools available:

https://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971

Filed Under: Blog

Exam 1 Study Guide

February 10, 2022

The study guide for the exam 1 is here!

Filed Under: Assignments and Exams

Telling Stories with Data

February 9, 2022

There are several ‘how to’ articles on how to tell a story with data, just google ‘telling stories with data’:

https://www.google.com/search?q=telling+stories+with+data

They all tell pretty much the same story, so you can choose the one that works for you.

Filed Under: Blog

Individual Assignment 1

February 7, 2022

Here is the specification and dataset for the Individual Assignment 1 (due March 9).

Filed Under: Assignments and Exams

Reading Quiz for Week 5

February 4, 2022

Submit your answers to the reading quiz by 2/7 before class starts:

https://forms.gle/8Ny2CymfneCoT3Ku9

Filed Under: Weekly Quizzes

4.2 Tableau Workbook Submission Form

February 2, 2022

Submit your Tableau workbook using this form:

https://forms.gle/RuKzr2BwiURhd9xm7

Filed Under: Assignments and Exams

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Two first weeks online!

The course will be taught online for the first two weeks of the semester. Use this link to join the Zoom sessions:

https://temple.zoom.us/j/91038078897

On Monday, 24 January, we will move to in-person sessions at Alter Hall 607.

Lecture recordings

Recordings of in-person sessions are available from here (from 1/24 onward).

Links to Zooms sessions until 1/19 are here:

Monday, 1/10/2022

Wednesday, 1/12/2022 (beginning)

Wednesday, 1/12/2022 (end)

Wednesday, 1/19/2022

Recent Announcements

  • Group project submission
  • Exam 3 Study Guide
  • Groups!
  • Reading Quiz for Week 13
  • Individual Assignment 2 Submission

TEACHING TEAM

Aleksi Aaltonen (Instructor)
aleksi@temple.edu

I am available to meet students on Wednesdays 2–3pm at Speakman 206D. If the time is not convenient for you or you want to meet virtually using Zoom, please send me an email.

Oviya Soundararajan (Information Technology Assistant)
oviya.sound@temple.edu

Email Oviya to arrange a meeting.

Rhiannon Adeel (B4USoar mentor)
radeel@temple.edu

Email Rhiannon to arrange a meeting.

Great Data Sites

  • FiveThirtyEight
  • Guardian Data Blog
  • Flowing Data
  • Financial Times Data Blog
  • Pew Research Data
  • US Government Open Data
  • OpenDataPhilly

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