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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Guest Lecture Bonus, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 6 months, 1 week ago
I thought the speaker session was very useful. We learn a lot in our classes but sometimes information will stick in our minds, and we can even understand it better when it is applied to real situations. The three […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Guest Lecture Bonus, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 6 months, 1 week ago
An example of a data-driven decision can be their placement of stores. He talked a lot about Wawa slowly expanding to different states, their most recent state being Florida. They pay close attention to how much […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Guest Lecture Bonus, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 6 months, 1 week ago
I am a marketing major with a minor of Management Information Systems. Data can be used for several things. It can be used to segmentation, which is important when launching and tracking the progress of products. […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A : Clustering & Segmentation, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sephora uses Segmentation to make better business decisions. When you become a member of Sephora’s customer database, they track all purchases and send recommendations based on that data. This is relevant because […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Data Mining, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 7 months ago
I think Spotcrime is an example of Data analytics, and not OLAP Analysis. The information that is given on that site is just raw material. It is based on reports from that area and demographics. There is no […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Week 10 (100 second reflection), on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 7 months, 1 week ago
In week 10 we learned about classification and decision trees. We are using SAS to grasp the concept behind decision trees. Classification decides what groups data belongs in and decision trees determine the […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A : True or False, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 7 months, 1 week ago
True. Data cubes capture data over a period of time, where as transactional data is always changing.
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Bonus Marks: SAS Account Setup, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Also, your email stated that you will give bonus points if we do it by midnight, not 11p.m. If possible, please confirm the correct time in Monday’s class. Thanks!
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Week 6 (100 second reflection), on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 8 months, 1 week ago
We learned that dimensional modeling and its managerial uses. Dimensional modeling is the graphic representation of data. We went on to discuss the differences between ‘data warehouses’, ‘data mart’, and a ‘data […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Week 3 – MGM case, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 9 months, 1 week ago
People are considered “whales” due to the amount of money they spend during each visit to the Hotel/Casino. To be classified as a Whale you must spends thousands to millions of dollars per visit whether it would […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Week 2, on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 9 months, 1 week ago
When a attribute is not repeated in the scheme, but there are many distinct values listed in the same column in a table. An example is a list of hobbies separated by person, there are many choices but they do not […]
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Amanda C. Fardella commented on the post, Q&A: Week 1 (100 second reflection), on the site DATA ANALYTICS @ MIS2502 /S2 9 months, 1 week ago
In week 1, we learned that all business decisions involves retrieving, interpreting, restoring, gathering data. We discussed the difference between transactional data and analytical data. An example we went over […]
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