Friday, April 20, 2007

Shannon's Entropy

Using Shannon's Entropy in Excel makes making diagrams easy and organized. I think this would be helpful for teachers who are trying to show how their students perform and the flow of their classrooms. I think the diagram is also very important in understanding search engines, such as Google because it is like a chain of events where you have to input a search query and it will narrow your results based on what you say is true about what you are looking for or not.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Using Excel

I think the lab was useful for working in jobs involve business and statistics because Excel helps make things easier to organize and group. It also helps when trying to make graphs, and this can be useful for projects or presentations. It is kind of hard to use, but when you understand how to use it it makes figuring out answers to equations like average and sum quicker than using a calculator.