Brigham Chen

Cultures contain things like beliefs, values, and traditions. Every family has different cultures, behaviors, or thoughts to pass on to generations. There is something I want to do research on. Something we can do observation or measure is religion. We can set the dataset about the religions of parents and of kids. We can try to see which kinds of beliefs are more likely to be converted to other religions, and which are going to be firmer than others. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints, I really want to see how firm our church is. How many people will stay in the beliefs and how many choose to leave. There is something more I want to do for researching about cultures. I want to see how a single parent family will affect the cultures. How many single parents or their kids will choose to convert to different religions, how they spend their time, what kind of people they being with. How they spend their money and how they think about money or other stuff. In my opi...

Theory can be applied to everyone. So as a data scientist, I will focus on how to do data research on each theory. For exchange theory, it is tough to define the inputs or the features. But for this theory, I would like to just focus on how a single element correlates with the output.  The first input I will choose is money. The interaction of money in a family can vary. First, how much do the parents give the allowance to the kids? I want to see whether the kids give parents more if the parents give more allowance to the kids. Also, how much do the parents spend on food, travel, or entertainment? I want to see how much the parents will spend on each category, and how it will affect how much the kids will give value back. I believe the correlation would be interesting. The second input I will choose is time. The interaction of time in a family can vary as well. First, how much time do the parents spend with the kids physically, and how much time will the kids like to spend time at ...

The Science Cycle includes questions, hypotheses, experiments, observations, and conclusions. Social Science could be more challenging than other areas of science. I think the major reason might be that Social Science cannot measure by numbers. For example, Biomedical Science often uses mass for the data and it is measurable. Social Science often includes satisfaction, and there is no rule to measuring satisfaction because it is always different among different individuals. As a Data Scientist, I like to collect data and analyze it, and I have been doing lots of projects. Although I have done many projects, doing Social Science data is really hard. It is always so hard to define the values, so I could never find a way to find out if my project is going right. Although there is no way for me to tell if they are correct, I still think doing these kinds of projects is necessary. It is necessary because people can understand concepts more by numbers. If there is something I could make a pr...

  Hi y'all! I am Brigham. I am from Taiwan. I study Computer Science and minor in Data Science. I like numbers and dealing with data. I like to play music. I also like volleyball. I hope I can get along with y'all in this class.