I created a webpage that shows two charts, a pie chart and a bar chart, that take data from an API about demographic statistics in New York City. The pie chart visualizes different ethnicities, and the bar chart compares gender. I learned how to find and utilize APIs and GitHub Account2000/Project (github.com)
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API Project
This website features 2 charts about New York school cafeteria inspections using 2 API’s. (JSON Data and Image Charts)
Create a simple application that uses Web API s
The following API fetches data from NYC public database and shows on what days had the highest death due to COVID.
For this project, I decided to use the NYC OpenData. I decided to go with “COVID-19 highest Deaths Count in NYC”. Here are the necessary links.
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/COVID-19-Daily-Counts-of-Cases-Hospitalizations-an/rc75-m7u3
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/rc75-m7u3.json
First, I used the JSON File to fetch all the data. After that, I focused only on dates and covid_deaths. Once I got that result, I sorted the data in ascending order to see what day had the highest death count. I focused on five days and did a bar chart based on those days. To create the bar chart I used ” https://documentation.image-charts.com/ “
THIS IS THE LINK TO ACCESS MY API:
// https://github.com/Enolamce/API-MIS-PROJECT
THIS IS THE LINK OF THE CLASS SERVER:
https://misdemo.temple.edu/tuk02571/API_PRO_POINTS/
LinkedIn Learning Path
LinkedIn Learning #1 – Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization:
Driving change in an organization can be a big challenge; a seemingly overwhelming task. After taking this course, however, I have learned valuable tools and information that makes that giant task just a little bit easier to achieve. In this learning, I was introduced to the concepts and techniques of design thinking which is a people-centered approach to problem-solving that emphasizes empathy, experimentation, and collaboration. In addition, through the guided exercises, I learned about the design thinking process, including identifying user needs, framing problems, generating ideas, prototyping solutions, and testing designs. The course also talked a little about stakeholder management and storytelling, which I already had a bit of knowledge on but was nice nonetheless.
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LinkedIn Learning #2 – Microsoft Project 2016 Essential Training:
Prior to taking this course, I had never used the Microsoft Project software before so this was all totally new to me. The course started with introducing the Microsoft Project interface and explaining how to create a new project plan. It then covered the basic tools of the software such as creating tasks, adding resources, setting up schedules, and managing dependencies between tasks. Other topics such as tracking progress, managing costs, and communicating project status to stakeholders were also discussed. Given that this was new software to me, the tips and tricks that Bonnie showed were very helpful and made the purpose of the software much more clear to me. After taking this course I am definitely no expert, but I feel somewhat comfortable using the Microsoft Project software which will be a good tool to have, especially because I want to be a project manager at some point in my career.
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Microsoft Project Essential training/Leading Change
- The goal for the LinkedIn Learning certifications was to learn about Microsoft Project 2016 and to learn about design thinking. During the Microsoft Project certification, I was able to learn about the many features that the software has that can help you manage products in different ways. I learned how to set up different tasks, including recurring tasks, and how to show resources’ availability and cost. Using Microsoft Project was a realistic experience when it comes to creating a project. It allows for the linking of tasks and assigning resources to those tasks. Finally, I learned about scheduling and the importance of keeping tasks within the allotted time and budget. During the Design Thinking certification, I learned the definition of design thinking which is a user-centric way of problem solving. It is similar to what I learned in MIS 3535 about being agile and using the scrum methodology. Design thinking is a collaborative effort, so the certification taught me how to be a design thinking leader and the different skills required to do so, such as setting goals and managing different types of people and creating synergies off of these distinct styles.
PRO points project
The goal of this project is to provide MIS students with additional hands-on experience in data analysis and reinforce the concepts and methods covered in class. I worked on a project to analyze data on heart failure patients using a decision tree algorithm. To do this, I gathered data from public datasets and experiment with different decision tree algorithms to improve the accuracy of the model. Finally, I will interpret and communicate the results of the analysis, including visualizations of the decision tree and statistical measures like accuracy and precision.
Analysis of Heart Disease Predictions
Using a dataset, I created a decision tree and performed an analysis of a patient’s likelihood of a 10-year risk of future coronary heart disease. The dataset includes information about each patients’ demographics, their medical history, and their smoking habits. I found that healthier patients had a lower risk of future coronary heart disease.
Python Decision Tree (Using Titanic Dataset)
The dataset I picked was from Kaggle and had data on the Titanic. The outcome variable I used was “survived”, a binary variable that showed whether the passenger survived or not. The features for predictions that I chose were passenger class, sex, age, and fare. Using these features and a decision tree Jupyter notebook, I was able to find any patterns in the features that can predict the survival or death of a passenger. I chose 15 as the best value for the minimum split. This is because the smaller the minimum split is, the more complex the tree is. We want the training set and validation set to be high and predict the outcome variable correctly.
A few insights that the decision tree provided were:
- Being female could increase your chance of survival
- Paying more for your fare could increase your chance of survival
- The younger males had a better chance of survival
The nodes with the highest probability are nodes 16 and 5 with a 100% probability of survival. This means the passengers most likely to survive are:
- Females who paid more than $33.85 for their fare
- Males younger than 36.25 who paid between $7.85 and $27.07 for their fare
The nodes with the lowest probability are nodes 3, 13, and 10 with a 0% probability of survival. This means the passengers least likely to survive are:
- Males younger than 36.25 who paid less than $7.85 for their fare
- Males older than 60.5
- Males between the ages of 36.85 and 43
Python Project
my project looked at covid cases and if it was more than 50 deaths I assigned it 1 and I assigned it 0. I filled out the sheet my teacher told us to do to get points.
Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
Design thinking in terms of today’s business world is defined as a making-based approach to problem solving that is rooted in human empathy and collaborating in teams. It is designed to be used for solving complicated and complex problems that do not have one straightforward solution. The end goal of design thinking is to ultimately bring something to life, to a market, or to people or a community. The best leaders understand that this way of thinking is a mindset instead of a process with cookie-cutter steps to follow. It is an integrative and empathy-based approach that leads to success and differentiation that many companies are hoping to strengthen in their organizations.
There are four strategies that good design thinking leaders are able to do that will develop their design thinking leadership. I found these strategies to be really insightful. The first is being able to consistently frame the problem. Use both the details available and concepts that are later explored in order to reframe how the details are being approached. This will allow you to have multiple perspectives in solving a problem. Second, is to be experimental and welcome failure and small wins. The third strategy is to communicate ideas clearly in order to be affective to your peers. It will be more memorable this way and they are more likely to understand them. Lastly, you must define your role clearly as a leader and encourage collaboration as well as model it, in order to balance the vision and progress of team thinking. Set good examples within your organization, and your peers will more likely mirror that behavior.
However, since design thinking is a non-linear approach to problem solving, it can create ambiguity and anxiety. Strategies for managing ambiguity can include focusing on iterating ideas, recognizing that each iteration may be different, maintaining an optimistic attitude, and avoiding overcontrol. It’s important to identify signs of exhaustion, overcontrol, big picture paralysis, and step reliance early on in order to redirect the team’s energy.
To conclude, we need to remember that successful design-led organizations have a competitive edge due to the problem-solving approach of designers, but this advantage stems from a cultural mindset rather than a strict process, which may require time to establish. It’s crucial to understand that design thinking is centered on human needs, so it’s important to know the organization’s target audience as well as your own team members. To incorporate design thinking into your routine, we should try to brainstorm with “what if” questions and embrace unconventional ideas, as well as sketching and prototyping to elaborate on those ideas.
Prototyping is an important part of designing experiences since it allows teams to quickly learn from interacting with the prototype and to quickly adapt it based on the feedback received. Effective prototyping involves pulling information that is needed to inform the next iteration and creating an expression at the appropriate level of fidelity. Prototypes are known to serve three purposes: framing the iteration, learning from others, and refining and making. In order to master it, prototyping will require creating simple yet fast prototypes and sharing them with others as soon as possible. Reduce presentations and consider your user’s perspective in order to be the most effective. This will result in better-aligned teams and meaningful products and services, therefore, making an organization more likely to succeed longterm.
