Nicholas B

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View the online visualization here. Design Statement I collected data simply by writing down data at the end of the day. There really was no special method to collecting data other than being consistent and paying attention to what I was doing in a given day. For example, when I woke up in the morning… Read more »

Sam O

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View the online visualization here. Design Statement The Data: For my personal project, I decided to split my data in three parts. They are total body percentage per month, total average number of sleep hours per day for each month, and total weight per month. The total body percentage per month was done by University… Read more »

Evan C

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Since at the age of 22 I still don’t have a driver’s license, my own feet have become my main method of transportation. I decided to use this to my advantage for my personal data project and recorded the distance I had traveled either running or walking each day (Not including bus or car rides).

CJ S

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View the online visualization here. Design Statement The Data: For this project I compiled all the step counter data in the health app to make all the graphs. First, I exported all the data and organized it in excel. The file that it exported was very large and the data went all the way back… Read more »

Calculating inflation in Excel

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Inflation is typically calculated using Consumer Price Index data, which is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS calculator is a handy way to get inflation for a few numbers, but there’s a more efficient way if you need to calculate many years at once.