In the fall, I was tasked to create a novel, usable and relevant dataset as part of a competition in Duke Fuqua’s MQM Program. I constructed a data table that could be used to obtain insights about factors that may have influenced the number of COVID-19 cases at universities across…

Using Twitter Data to Quantify Reactions to Various Advertisers — The game was pretty terrible and viewership was way down, but the $5.5 million investment for a Super Bowl commercial may have still been worth it for some companies. I scraped Twitter using the rtweet package in R to attempt to measure viewers’ reactions to a handful of these…

While today is Super Bowl Sunday, last month a few classmates (Ryan Pruss, Isaac Parker and Richard Locarni) and I analyzed NFL data as part of Kaggle’s NFL Data Bowl 2021. You can view our post which includes a summary of our process and all the coding and modeling that…

Using Google Mobility and Trends data to determine structural changes in the industry — By Evgeny Aleksandrov, Hongguin Kim and Ryan Young Just a year ago, food delivery services were struggling financially. But as 2020 progressed (and much of the economy regressed), these companies saw much needed boosts. With stay-at-home orders imposed and in-person dining shut down to varying degrees throughout the country…

Using New Year’s Eve Tweets — 2020 was an unconventional year and it deserved an unconventional goodbye. Keep your clichés and your “Happy New Year” to yourself. So before the clock struck 12 last night, I made a short list of potential creative phrases that people would post to social media to usher in 2021. …

On the final day of 2020, I will look back through the data that is most plentiful and accessible to me…my personal data. In many ways, visualizing my own data is a more efficient and effective way of introducing myself. I have two main takeaways in the days I have…

Using taxi, subway and google data to discover trends in Manhattan — As I reach the end of each year, I always like to take some time to reflect…and the final two days of 2020 will be no different. However, 2020 was different, of course, and most insights from this year will be about the impacts of the pandemic. …

Welcome to my data blog. I’m a student at Duke Fuqua’s MS in Business Analytics program and my hope is that you will get to know me better over the next few weeks through this blog. I know that 2020 has been one of the most tumultuous years in U.S…