It is my last week at AstraZeneca and my 3-month internship has been the most wonderful experience. I would love to work in the pharmaceutical industry when I graduate. I learned so much at AZ and I was given so […]

Some things I found practical through my classes are communication, professionalism, and the exposure to different aspects of technology. From critically analyzing given documents and information to writing my […]

An important skill to have is being able to balance all your projects and responsibilities. I have three projects going on right now and each project has its own difficulties and deadlines. My group project needs […]

It seems that setting your own hours seems to be one of the most common difficulty in the beginning. My first two days of orientation began at 9 o’clock so I thought my hours would be 9-5 everyday, but my hiring […]

This summer I am interning with the world’s 6th largest pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca. I’ve been assigned to the Managed Markets Operations team in the US IS department. I will be working on several individual […]

Why is it not a good programming practice to display built-in error messages in the browser?

Displaying the actual error message exposes security threats so that information will no longer be secured and be […]

Cookies are used when users need to navigate websites more efficiently. They perform functions such as authentication, enhancing and enabling usability, and generally provide a better experience. By disabling the […]

What are some example of functions that help you obtain file and directory information?

Three examples are file_exists, is_readable, is_writeable. These will determine if a file exists or not, whether it is […]

When is it preferable to use the “post” method and when is it preferable to use the “get” method?

Both POST and GET are submission methods used for a form. GET (the default) should be used for getting or […]

Why would you want to combine strings?

Combining strings in a program saves time, whether in writing the code itself or loading the script in the program. By reducing the actual size of the written script, it […]

Explain the difference between a while statement and a do…while statement.

The while loop tests the condition first and then the statements are executed if the conditions are true. The do while executes the […]

What data types are primitive? What about reference data types?

Primitive types are the basic types of data and have a fixed size in memory, meaning it can store exactly one value of its declared type at one […]

The most important takeaway from the class is exactly what the course title tells: data analytics. By using programs like SQL and SAS, I learned the different ways to analyze almost any piece of data, whether it […]

The most helpful technique for Uncle Bob would be with association rules. It will help him discover the interesting relationships between the products that he sells. The market basket analysis answers questions […]

A decision tree can help a business answer a question: should we invest our time in project A or project B? The data needed to create a decision tree include the revenue that can be generated, the time needed to […]

Data mining enables companies to 1) determine relationships among internal and external factors (price vs. competition), 2) calculate impact on sales and profits, and 3) view detailed transactional data. An […]

It is important for a manager to know that adopting a company’s existing data standards can save future complications. When data is entered in the same format and structure, it keeps consistency. When an employee enters data inconsistently, the chance of error time increases, which would automatically increase the money and time wasted solving the [...]

I agree that the star schema is a superior way to deliver data to end users. It essential one of the most important step in creating a data warehouse. A star schema is characterized by one or more fact tables that contain primary information and smaller dimension tables which contain information for a particular attribute. [...]

A situation where you need to join a set of tables in order to retrieve information would be when both tables share a common primary key. A simple example would be to connect a movie to a featured language. One table would include the movie title and the featured language (displayed with an ID number) [...]

Although there wouldn’t be information without data, I think information is far more valuable, and therefore more important, than data. Data is just plain facts and raw input, but if it isn’t processed into meaningful output, data is fairly useless and has no significance when it exists in the data form. Information provides a structured [...]