Curb Your Smartphone Addiction by using Forest. https://www.forestapp.cc/

I have been using this APP when I need to stay focus. Because it helps me to leave along with my phone for a while and whenever I want to stay focused, it plant a tree. And the tree size depends on the time I stop using the phone. Leaving the app halfway will cause my tree to die.  I think it somehow can help people to stay away from their phone by the tree plant achievement. Once you set up the timer, you cannot use it, even you leave the app, it gives you the warning message. You can also noticed that the top right corner has the total gold coin you had earned so far. However, you should always set up the break time, it reminds you how many minutes left, so you can move on to the next maintain focus time.

Here is the screenshot when I set up 25  mins goal, once I didn’t use my iPad during this 25 mins. The App will plant a small tree for me. And you can always go back to check your past achievement by counting your tree and summing up your time.

• Online student success:
  • Handshake, https://osu.joinhandshake.com/,
  • Really resource for job hunting process, includes career fair, professional workshop and events.
• Communication:
  • Zoom, https://zoom.us/,
  • Zoom plays very important role during pandemic. But also a good resource for group project, such as team meeting, sharing screen, and survey.
• Efficiency:
  • Google sheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/,
  • Creating a weekly spreadsheet helps me to manage my time, in order to make any improvement.
• Studying:
  • Carmen, https://carmen.osu.edu/#,
  • Being a student, I would say checking your Carmen daily is part of my life now. So I have a clear idea when is the deadline, and any incoming assignments.
• Note-taking:
  • Notability, https://support.gingerlabs.com/hc/en-us,
  • I do use Notability for all my note-taking, I found out it is easy to keep and look up the old notes.
• Searching and researching
  • Kaggle, https://www.kaggle.com/,
  • Aa a data analytics major student, Kaggle is a good place for self-learning and doing research.

For this week blog, I want to share these useful resources, not only for studying, but also time management, note-taking, and campus student resource. You may have different thought than mine. That’s ok. Just pick the one you like most. Above all the resources, I highly recommend Notability, I would say I use it all the time. It can be my daily planner, slide notes, and I can also write my assignments.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unsupervised+learning+R

Here is one useful learning video I found on the YouTube channel. Recently, I was working on one statistic project, which required us to use R do some unsupervised learning given us the large dataset. This video shows clear idea about how to present categorical and numerical variables in R. And how to pick the best visualization.

To be honest, I haven’t think about try to find study material from Youtube. I always google some learning blogs, which are boring and long. Instead of reading long article, watching a short video is much fun. You can exactly see how they code and operate. And at the same time, I can try code by myself when watching the live video.

After this week studying, I learned that try to find out all available online sources to help you success. I haven’t think about YouTube has some useful videos for me to learn. But after learning this week module, I find one more study tool can help me!

1. Google, https://www.google.com/.  (Links to an external site.)It organizes the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google provides me a lot of useful learning information. During in school, sometimes we didn’t get what the professor say, or we may want to explore one subject deeper. I use Google a lot helps me improve the ability  to do my self learning.

2. Kaggle, https://www.kaggle.com/ (Links to an external site.).  Kaggle is  is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. For our data analytics major students, we use it a lot. It either give us the newest dataset or the perspective of improve one model or one graph.

3. LinkedIn Learning, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me?u=2185266 (Links to an external site.). LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. Personally, I use it as my self-training tool. It taught me not only technical skills, but also the soft skills, such as communication skill, team work skill.  

Those three tools are my favorite, and I almost use it every week. I want to share it with you. Hope they will give you some insight about online study tool.