Sample Work
Here you can view some of my work from my college career thus far. Please click the links below to browse.
Analytics Challenge:
In the Fall of 2013 Temple University is hosting a Data Analytics Challenge focused on data visualization. The challenge has three separate problems to explore, and I chose a problem focusing on the current travel policies for Merck employees. Given several spreadsheets of historical trip and flight data for Merck employees I had to determine if their current travel policies were effective in saving money for the company. With the abundance of data given for this project it was necessary to focus on what variables would be most relevant to examine and then find associations and patterns among the data with pivot tables in Excel to summarize my findings. The details of the challenge can be found at: http://ibit.temple.edu/analyticschallenge. Attached below is my submission and the writeup that explains the infographic I created to visualize the data. I worked with another MIS student on this project.
Analytics Challenge Infographic
Analytics Challenge Explanation
Research Paper:
I wrote this paper in my introductory English course at Penn State. In this paper I researched and analyzed the current Pennsylvania jail system and programs for drug offenders. After examining the current reform programs I analyzed the costs and benefits of these programs.
Accounting Presentation:
Attached is a group presentation I worked on with a group of four other students in Honors Managerial Accounting. Our assignment for the project was to analyze how the implementation of a new decentralized responsibility centered management initiative would impact the GenEd program at Temple University. Since this new budgeting system is to be installed as of fiscal 2014, we interviewed contacts from Temple University’s administration to discuss the current system and how they predict the new changes to develop.