NOV 1 - Game Board Night

A relaxing social event at the Stat & DS Club meeting, pizza and game board night!  

Interesting Board Game journal article   "Mining the BoardGameGeek"

Nov. 1, 2021, 9:51 a.m. by Katherine Merrill

OCT 18 CLUB SPONSORS TABLEAU WORKSHOP

Nara Neelakrishnan, Green Mountain Power Data Scientist, led a Tableau Workshop for UVM Stat, DS, and Math students.  There was great attendance, interest and engagement as students learned about the app and navigated using it.

Every Fall, the ASA offers the Fall Data Challenge.  This year, the data challenge topic was Food Insecurity.

Nara had this to say:

Nara loved and had fun working with you and was pleased with your engagement during the workshop.  Here is what Nara wanted me to pass on to you.  NOTE:  Nara has given you a FOLLOW-UP CHALLENGE to win $50!!!  Should we do a Follow-Up Challenge club meeting?  Take this survey.

Presentation - https://prezi.com/view/AtYA1qMfGM8eGPwv3aUB/

UVM workshop by Shankar Nara Neelakrishnan on Prezi Next prezi.com UVM Workshop Intro to Tableau Who am I ? Who am I ? Shankar NARAyanan Neelakrishnan Green Mountain Power GMP - Largest Electric utility in Vermont serving 80% of Vermonters. - Smallest investor Owned Regulated utility in US. - GMP is customer obsessed and we are producing some of

Data - https://thisisstatistics.org/falldatachallenge/

Better explanation of FARA data - https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation/

 

Challenge –

• Download nara’s tableau work “FARA Analysis (Seniors and Kids)” from tableau public (LINK in presentation).
• Try backtracking and recreating it with Parameter Action Filter (Action filters with PARAMETERS - https://kb.tableau.com/articles/howto/How-To-Make-Filter-Actions-Work-For-Measure-Names-Using-Parameter).
• Create your own version with better  STATS from  FARA and share your work (email in presentation).
• Best 4 submissions get $50 gift card each.  
  • Criteria
    • better than nara’s VIZ
    • It must be a different and meaningful stats
  • Submissions due – Nov 15.

Oct. 18, 2021, 10:27 a.m. by Katherine Merrill

OCT 4 CLUB PREPARES FOR TABLEAU WORKSHOP

The club was joined by Luc Cohen-Wanis, statistics graduate student, to help prepare for the upcoming Tableau Workshop on October 18th.  Students downloaded and installed the student version of Tableau, which offers 1-year free use of the software.

Tableau is a Data Visualization tool, which will be used to work with the ASA's Fall Data Challenge on Food Insecurity.

Please join us for the Tableau Workshop on October 18th, 5pm, Innovation Hall Room E432, led by Nara Neelakrishnan (Data Scientist for Green Mountain Power).

Oct. 4, 2021, 9:34 a.m. by Katherine Merrill