I found this article very interesting. It’s hard to understand as to why so few organizations actually have an IT Governance program in place. Only seven percent of companies were continuously optimizing their IT […]

Part of the MIS curriculum is to ensure that as students of the business school we receive financial training. Therefore, being able to calculate ROI and other metrics will only help us when we are in a situation […]

This article proves even further that one can never stop learning and increasing their self worth. Like the article states, the stuff we learn in college and throughout our lives, are losing its value at rapid […]

I completely agree with the article in that for every job that has been eliminated by technology, we have found brand-new industries such as IT to make up for some of the jobs that have been lost. I think that […]

My internship this summer at QVC has been awesome. It has truly been a great experience working
for a large multinational company. Before coming to QVC the only experience I had was working for a
much smaller […]

I think my Data Analytics class with professor Chen was the most helpful class for my internship I have now. I use excel, word, and access every single day and knowing how to use things such as pivot tables before […]

Like many of us, I feel as though being able to use Microsoft extensively is one of the most important skills I have learned at my internship. Whether its Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, etc, being able to use […]

During my orientation at QVC there were a lot of small things that were not addressed. For example, no one told me what my actual hours were to be. I found out the next day by speaking with my manager that I could […]

Hi all! This summer I will be working at QVC Studio Park in West Chester. I’m working in the IT Security Department within IT and specifically with the provisioning team. This summer I will be assisting the System […]

Support is the proportion or percentage, ie. 1/4 or 25%, that an item appears in a specific data set.

The confidence is the support for both transactions divided by the support of one item. This number is an […]

Megan Taylor

SpotCrime is an example of OLAP because its uses attributes such as zip code and type to analyze the data. As the user, you can use techniques such as slicing and dicing of the data to break down the data specifically.

Classification is used to determine what group an entity should belong to. Classification uses the attributes of that entity to figure out how it should be classified. A model used for classification is a decision […]

The gini test is used for classification and decision trees because as branches are added to the decision tree, the leaf nodes become smaller. The gini test is based on a scale from 0-1, the more diverse a group […]

A cookie is used to send information to a user’s browser and for the browser to return the information to the original site. Cookies can be used for authentication, identification, and user preferences. Cookies […]

Built in error messages in the browser could make it easier for someone to hack into your system. Displaying a built in error message will allow hackers to have access to your coding, thus making it easier to […]

Data mining is a process that is used for analyzing the data from different views and standpoints. In the end data mining is done to sum up the information into useful and concrete data. Data mining entails […]

The MIS department should definitely include a coding class within its curriculum. Learning how to code will bring more opportunities to someone and give that person an advantage over someone who does not know how […]

The objectives of ETL are: the process of copying data from the transactional database to the analytical database, going from relational to dimensional, and identifying where the data should come from to fill the […]

A) Choosing the business process entails what your data cube will be about. Questions about the business are asked and the problem and solution are determined.
B) Deciding on the level of granularity determines […]