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Take a look at the fascinating video of how Tesla sees the traffic environment. This is an example of an extremely sophisticated unstructured data analysis in real time.

https://youtu.be/fKXztwtXaGo

The following video provides a great introduction to doing pivot tables in Excel:

https://youtu.be/UsdedFoTA68

Here is a simple introduction to the concepts behind MapReduce and Hadoop Big Data technologies.

https://youtu.be/43fqzaSH0CQ

Note that the products themselves are less interesting than the idea of how we can process huge amounts of data effectively.

Wikipedia has fairly good articles on KPIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator) and the SMART criteria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria).

Here is a short clip explaining how relative cell references differ from absolute cell references in Excel.

Here is also a link to my Excel demo spreadsheet.

https://youtu.be/iDg9s7BJ2m4

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

https://youtu.be/iKK3P11OCyM

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/

(A blog post with examples – including the classic NASA mishap – of how things go wrong when people get data types wrong.)

Differences between infographics and data visualizations are discussed in this blog post:

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

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

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.

…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

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.