Working at Chemtura is awesome. My internship officially ends the 30th of May, but today, after asking earlier in April, they invited me to stay on for this summer as well!

I was a little apprehensive starting […]

The things that classrooms cannot teach all sum up to just the reality of situations and putting theory into practice, as well as certain things that everyone with an office job knows but you would not put into a […]

The biggest class that has benefited me has been 3504. I work in the Business and IT relationship management department and learning how to deal with people who are unfamiliar with technology or resistant to […]

This semester I’ve been successful with getting myself into a routine and sticking to it. I commute, so I have a few hours between work and class that I do nothing other than sit and do homework. Sometimes it’s […]

First, I would like to mention excel: I’ve always known it was important, since we get emails with tips and workshop postings from Temple, and it gets mentioned in classes and used for projects. However, the […]

Sometimes I bring lunch, but it’s also acceptable to run out really quick and grab something from one of the nearby restaurants since we’re located right in center city (which is nice for variety sake sometimes!).

Glad to hear that someone else has no idea what to do with a lunch break. Being at Temple means I NEVER have time for any sort of long lunch. I always do a working lunch here, even when all the other interns leave!

My first big challenge was finding my way around the building properly. I’m in a huge, 37 story building and Chemtura has two floors. I’ve gotten lost quite a few times here.

Another silly thing is I have yet […]

Link: http://community.mis.temple.edu/dheller/mis-2502-social-media-analytics/

SAS Social Media Analytics is a hosted service for medium and large businesses that pulls in data from sources within social media […]

Support is how often all of the items in the itemset appear in the all transactions. it is expressed as a decimal or fraction.

confidence takes the items in the item set, and instead of comparing them to ALL of […]

SpotCrime is OLAP because it involves answering queries and not modeling or transforming data (data analytics). It supports decision making in a user friendly way and you can break down the data to an area as […]

you should use classification when you want to attach a certain specification to a piece of data – such as identifying a customer as having “platinum status” or wanting to know if a transaction is fraudulent. you […]

Data mining is meant to predict future variables or outcomes and find patterns in the data. Data Mining software uses decision trees, association rules, regression, and clustering (to name a few) to accomplish […]

Describe the evolution of data analytics and include evolutionary step, business question, enabling technologies and characteristics in your answer.

In the 1960s, data analytics focused on collection of past […]

4. How can candidates change their strategy in response to insights offered by business analytics?

Candidates can use the information that is being freely given to them by supporters to see where they have more […]

a) choosing the business process,
In this step, you must give the data cube a specific subject and decide what questions about the business you want the cube to answer.
b) deciding on the level of […]

ALTER is if you want to modify a table by adding a column. For example, if you have an employee table, and you wanted to start keeping record of when the employees start work, you would: ALTER TABLE employee ADD […]