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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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Data Visualization Examples

January 31, 2022

Post your data visualization examples as a comment to this post.

Filed Under: Exercises

Bad Pies

January 31, 2022

Look at how to use and not to use pie charts:

https://www.martinraffeiner.blog/using-data-visualizations-bad-guy-pie-charts/

Filed Under: Blog

Reading Quiz for Week 4

January 29, 2022

Submit your answers to the reading quiz by 1/31 before class starts:

https://forms.gle/iDKS2X4X7aWDAYQK6

Filed Under: Weekly Quizzes

Assessing the Trustworthiness of Data

January 26, 2022

Post the review you found interesting as a comment to this post.

Filed Under: Exercises

Beware Online Filter Bubbles

January 24, 2022

An old but still relevant TED talk by Eli Pariser on how the web is being inconspicuously personalized for individual tastes creating bubbles of like-minded people.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tedspread

…and its critique:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/06/eli-pariser-s-the-filter-bubble-is-web-personalization-turning-us-into-solipsistic-twits.html

…and a more recent take on the topic:

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/11/12/20959479/eli-pariser-civic-signals-filter-bubble-q-a

Filed Under: Blog

Reading Quiz for Week 3

January 20, 2022

Submit your answers to the reading quiz by 1/24 before class starts:

https://forms.gle/8SViehCegvnvuzcw6

Filed Under: Weekly Quizzes

A Simple Vocabulary of Data Science Concepts

January 18, 2022

A short summary of important data science concepts we discuss during the course in Aleksi Aaltonen’s blog:

https://aleksiaaltonen.medium.com/a-simple-vocabulary-of-data-science-concepts-dc29c633f5ee

It’s just 2 min read and gives you an overview of many important concepts we will discuss during the semester.

Filed Under: Blog

Reading Quiz for Week 2

January 12, 2022

Submit your answers to the reading quiz by 1/19 before class starts:

https://forms.gle/PcJfqj2ZmxVYGqQW8

Filed Under: Weekly Quizzes

Correlation without Causation

January 10, 2022

Here are some brilliant examples of correlations that surely do not indicate causation!

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Filed Under: Blog

Welcome to MIS0855 Data Science Course!

January 3, 2022

Organizations are drowning in data. A huge amount of data are constantly produced by social media services, customer loyalty programs, smartphones and other gadgets, sensor and transportation networks, credit card transactions, government agencies and many other types of data producers. Successful leaders make increasingly to data-driven decisions, solve problems and communicate by skillfully combining large amounts of heterogenous data. This course teaches you to make sense of the world through data and to do data analysis in practice.

–Aleksi, your instructor

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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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