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You can map out your connections and how they are placed all over the world. Provides a visualization of “LinkedIn Connections.”

There was data that helped Wawa decide what states to open up more franchises in. They better understood what areas appreciated the business of Wawa. This also helped them with their customer demands and wants. […]

I am a Management Information Systems major. Data can be used int he field in many different ways. Using the ERD models, SAS, Decision Trees, SAP, SQL, and various other data platforms can help me determine […]

1. Data is an asset and not a cost. You make a decision and it becomes an investment.
2. New Product Testing – data driving with a contract through an outside company gives a process to determine a method. Test […]

The SSE – Sum of Squared Errors is measured by calculating the difference of distance of points to the cluster center.

The Association rule would work out the best for Bob because he is able to see how all of the different products relate and it will be effective to see the sales as well.

During week 13, I learned about the Association Rules. These help us with the business in understanding the customers’ needs and their demands. These businesses use the rules to see what customers buy together and […]

Clustering has two significantly important terms, cohesion and separation. They assist clustering because they determine the different data points in a cluster. The larger the cohesion is the closer data points […]

Two ways to cluster is by partitioning or breaking down a large group of data and grouping it into various smaller groups by the nature of the group. Customers are an example of clustering. You can cluster and […]

During week 12, we learned and discussed the topic of clustering and segmentation. Cluster analysis is grouping data so that elements are different within the different groups. Insurance is an example of cluster analysis.

Data warehouse is a storage for raw data.
Data mart is made up of raw data that has been queried for data analysis.
Data cube is there to organize the data into a multidimensional matrix.

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Week 9 focused on learning SAS as well as using the 3 V’s to analyze data (volume, variety, and velocity)

In addition, there are ways to use Big data – Prediction and Description Methods.
Prediction predicts […]

Week 10 was used to learn about SAS and decision trees. We talked about the in class assignment in depth as well. Decision trees are used to find probabilities and the likelihoods of events.

During week 7 I learned about the ETL process. The process has been done with spreadsheets and excel formulas The process allows us to pull data from a ‘transactional’ database, take that data and transform it, […]

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In week 5, we went through different SQL query searches. We learned how to obtain information from an SQL database as well as inputting the information into the database. After doing in-class exercises and […]

One thing that was heavily talked about during week 3 was the ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) and its use. After looking at a random business case, you can really understand the layout of a business and you can […]

The foreign keys in the referential integrity allows for the data to be uniform and consistent. The keys allow there to be a common relationship between the tables and the data in the tables.

During this week, I learned about the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). It consists of three parts: Entity, which is an identifiable thing (ie: customer), Relationship, which is present when there is more than […]