My take away from this course is looking to data from different perspective and compiling this data in different ways in order to come up with new ideas. As an example is joining the KPIs with data visualization […]

The Apple model has struggled before with the Mac OS running only on Apple machines. I believe that this gives an indication that the tie model might fail. On the other hand Windows model that is not tied to […]

When integrating “external” social data with existing data from a company’s internal systems, some challenges can be faced. The major challenge is how to map external records with internal records. Even if the two […]

My question for #18:
What is the max total amount paid by a patient. The answer is $66944

If I were in charge of data.gov, and in order to encourage people to make better use of its data, I will create some samples for the most common used subjects people are interested in. E.g. Create a sample report […]

The lack of recent success in the MoneyBall case should not be related to the Healthcare case. In the healthcare case, the success is based mainly on identifying best practices from the doctors then share these practices among all to use to become more efficient. Whereas in the Moneyball case, it didn’t depend on industry [...]

Measurement in my organization, was it SMART: We faced alot of issues with an old employees performance evaluation system. The system used broad categories and broad ranking which made the usage difficult. An example was: using the right tools – which tools this question refers to was very vague, does it mean developing tools, time [...]

Q1. When gathering project requirements from the client, this process can’t be an infinite process and at some point of time it must be finalized. In one of the projects I participated in, we were merging information about the suppliers of a client to determine the suppliers quality. The supplier information was not stored in [...]

From my experience and class discussion, the best practices for collecting data would require asking open ended questions as much as possible in order to understand the big picture. After that, we need to ask very specific questions to narrow down the scope of what we do as well as to understand the details. Another [...]

Social media can help alot in the emergency management or disaster recovery as well us up-to-date information. The article mentioned the usage of the social media during the Iran elections, and a more recent usage was in Egypt during the protests, this made the Egyptian government to close all internet service providers for few days. [...]