Answer these questions:
- Choose one of the data sets listed above in the Activity section and give a brief description of it. What specifically were the types of data (text, sounds, transactions, etc.) included in the data set you chose?
- Answer
- Student Debt: the topic illustrates the extent of students debt across the nation and breaks down data in terms of private vs. public, year of graduation, athletic conference, etc. The data set used an interactive graph in order to display the data.
- What new facts did you learn when exploring the data set? List at least 3 facts.
- Answer
- The extent of big data is incredibly large to such an extent that it is hard to imagine, such as the enormous number of hardware storage drives that could reach so far in order to make up the amount of data. The extent of the capacity for storing big data seems limitless, as each year the extent of the capacity seems to increase. Big data could be any kind of data, depending on the need of the company or task.
- Write a question you have about the data set you chose. Now, convert that question into a hypothesis (a statement) with your prediction about the data.(Hypotheses take the form of "If __________, then _________." For example, a hypothesis about the student debt data could be, "If the tuition costs are higher at an institution, the student debt will be higher."
- Answer
- If the institution if private, then the student debt will be higher.
- Identify at least one security and/or privacy concern that is associated with the data in the data set you chose?
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- Students' debt data was collected, which means that their private information could have been breached.
- If your data set included a visualization, what was useful about the visualization? How would you change or improve the visualization?
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- The visualization was most impressive because of how interactive and personalized it was. I would have made it even more interactive with some variables based on how long it would take to pay off and what the total costs would be, etc.