Overall, the internship at SAP was a great experience in the IT field. Although there was a lot of downtime in the operations department, I was exposed to state of the art technology. Another advantage of the SAP […]

If I reflect upon the four semesters I spent at Temple University, the following classes were the most helpful with regards to my summer internship at SAP:

Enterprise IT Architecture: This was the most useful […]

The most important skill is the ability to communicate effectively. In a company such as SAP, every process consists of multiple workflows; therefore, tickets are created to document each step and then passed on […]

My first weeks at SAP were full of surprises. Some surprises could have perhaps been avoided by asking a few astute questions during my interview but others were only possible as an employee. The first surprise […]

I am currently a full-time Infrastructure Management/ Operations Intern at SAP’s data center in Newtown Square, PA. SAP is the world leader in business application software and the data center is one in the […]

Support: It is the number of data points (customers, transactions, etc.) that meet a set of rules and/or assumptions
E.g. In market basket analysis where customers buy milk and cereals, the support would be the […]

two days late: I should get 2 points

Data mining is a tool often used by retailers. Stores such as Wal Mart or Acme constantly observe and analyze the buying patterns of their customers. For example, Wal Mart was the first who noticed that people […]

I used the Multi-tier Architecture pattern to organize my work. I started with the index file, which represents the application tier and is the brain of the third project. It controls the functionality of the […]

Classification (also known as a decision tree) is a step-by-step process. It can help to determine the likelihood of an event such as this: “How likely is person Y to buy a new house.” A possible decision tree […]

To test if a decision tree is effective we use the chi-squared test. This test helps us to see if the outcome is the same in each child node. If it is, the decision tree is not optimal. A decision tree is […]

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Cookies are small text files that are stored on a computer. Their purpose is to hold a small amount of data that is specific to a particular user and Web site. The Web server or the client computer can […]

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

Built-in error messages reveal information about the server and the php scripting engine. This could open the door to […]

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

Data analytics evolved over past five century from being a […]

I think it is important to at least get exposed to code in school. Will I be an expert after 14 weeks of programming? Certainly not, but understanding the framework will definitely give me an edge in the “real” […]

2.What data would be valuable to electoral candidates?

- Chat rooms, blogs, news rooms
-Data from social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
- Search engines i.e. trends
- U.S. Census; to see […]

a) Decides what question your data cube/warehouse should solve. More general, “What is the data warehouse/ cube all about?” This initial step tries to clarify which business process to model, e.g. “which promotion […]

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