Data Viz Crew

            This blog project is focused on data visualization .  Data visualization is important to me as I have aspirations to learn new data visualization and forecasting techniques in order to someday start a data analytics company where we will help small and midsize companies to better understand and “see” their data in a new way which will in turn help them gain new customers retain  more of the customers that they already have .                By researching this important topic and constructing this blog, I aim to uncover more information about the current state of the data visualization industry as well as where it is going in the future and learning about the newest tools that are built specifically with both data scientists and more importantly the end user in mind .  Modeling data and making charts that are visually appealing is all well and good but unless...

     Since computing and the internet went mainstream, there has been a lot of attention (rightfully so) on network security. In this essay we will further examine several ways that computer systems can be breached and how network security experts try to stop said attacks .         The first and most basic attack is a Denial of Service (DoS) in which the attacker sends a very large number of packets over as a PING to crash the server .  While these used to be very common and would cause havoc on servers, advancements in cyber security technology have made the repercussions of these types of attacks not nearly as extreme as they used to be.        A quite common type of attack currently is Phishing .  Phishing is where attackers will send emails to people posing as a credible company or service, perhaps even their bank or other financial institution and attempt to get them to click back to their fake and malic...

    I have been involved in the sales industry in one fashion or another for the past twenty plus years .  In my time (since 1998) I have seen many improvements in technology in this industry from connection speeds going from slow (T1) to fast (gigabit fiber) to CRM systems steadily advancing including the advent of SalesForce .  This decade is certainly ushering in more and more technology advancements in all industries including the sales industry on almost a monthly basis .     One of the main “buzzwords” in the sales industry is the “sales cycle” and the relative speed of the amount of time it takes to turn a prospect into a customer or cl ien t.  Si nce almost the beginning of time, there has been focus on shortening the sales c ycl e.  The advent of mobile phones and where prospective customers can be reac hed almost insta ntly 24 hours a day has certainly helped in this arena in recent y ear s.  Another strategy that has re...