I think that the most important takeaway form this course was the experience with SQL and SAS. I think it is very difficult to claim to be an expert with those programs but being able to go into a job interview […]

1) A business question that someone could use clustering to answer could be where should a band or musical artist make stops on their tour. To perform that analysis they would be able to look at past profits, […]

1) A business question that could use a decision tree could be looking at purchasing/trading players in baseball. Teams will want to consider a variety of variables when considering the players and certain […]

SpotCrime.com would be an example of online analytical processing. The website tells you what is happening or what has happened. It doesn’t show predictions or explain why something is happening the way it is. […]

2) I actually see an instance of how the same piece of data can be represented multiple ways when I work at the Admissions call center. We occasionally will call the same student multiple times for the same […]

2) I would agree with Kimball. When the data is organized around a business event it is easy to understand and I think understanding the data is the most important. The business events are typically the […]

1. While MGM will receive the data on Trump, they will also be revealing their own data. MGM could give a casino that already has great power, even more. If MGM reveals their data to Trump, Trump can then do […]

1) I think the best way to make sure an ERD accurately represents the business event that you are supposed to capture is to first write down all the entities and then all the attributes you think are describing […]

2) I work at the Temple Admissions Call Center and every night we collect data from students. It ranges from phone numbers and majors to other universities students may prefer. While the actual student callers […]