Data, data, data. I know it's been a while since I posted last so that's my bad. I've also decided to take a different direction with my blog. I think it would be better to actually analyze what the internet is on a level that most of us don't think about. I've come to the realization recently that my major and other majors and professions like it are very data-centric. We deal with raw, hard, cold data and love every minute of it.
Every single one of my classes deals with data and what to do with it. My database class is about organizing data in a way that makes it easily accessible for whatever the need my be. My programming class uses the language of data to create interfaces for users. My applied information assurance class teaches us how to exploit a network in order to secure and defend data. My IT forensics class teaches us how to recover lost and hidden data to uncover the truth. And, finally, my decision support system class teaches us how to mine data and then how to analyze the data in order to make sense of the it by using technological means.
I'm not really a creative person so this realization made me happy. I have no problem managing other peoples data. Programming is the most difficult because it requires some creativity from me and I'm terrible at that. In my decision support systems class last night, we had people from Walmart come and speak to our class. This was very interesting because they deal with so much data per day. It was cool to see how they take the sales data and weather and put that into place within all of their stores nationwide. Some may complain about Walmart but I don't know if they realize how much information they actually deal with. It's tons.
I've also been thinking a lot about what section of IT to go into because there are quite a bit. I'm really taking a liking to database even though it seems like it may come back to bite me. There's just something about organizing data that is really getting to me right now. I still have a strange fondness in my heart for desktop support. Even though I alway get frustrated when people have really easy-to-fix problems I still find myself having a sense of satisfaction when I'm able to fix or resolve their problem.
I have had to ask people this before, but that is small fries compared to the feeling I get when I solve that issue. Of course, in database you can make some sick money and it's not nearly as hard. My major sets me up to be a translator between the computer nerds and the business jocks, but I just really want to work with computers somehow.
Anyway, I have to get back to this database homework (aka Reddit). I'll try to update this more often. I'm also learning how to use Python so maybe I'll talk about that soon!
