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Is an example of a good infographics because it is easy to understand, it tells a story, is aesthetically […]

Yes, companies that sell digital content can be able to collect an ongoing stream of revenue if and only if these companies continue to research and implement technologies to prevent illegal content downloads and […]

In my opinion, the major challenge in integrating “external” social data with existing data from a company’s internal systems is the sometimes difficulty associated with validating the accuracy of social data. […]

If I was in charge of Data.gov I would start an aggressive ad campaign targeting colleges and universities. I believe college and university students would be quicker adopters, who can then promote its use in the workforce.

A process can be described as a collection of activities that serves a common goal. These activities result in data that can be stored as information and used as an indictaor of how effective a process is. In the […]

The Name field can result in data quality problems. The Physician can enter first name, last name in one occassion and enter last name, first name in another occassion for the same patient. A better way to collect […]

One key difference between an ERD and a Schema is that in a Schema, a relationship can become an additional table. While in an ERD, a relationship cannot become an additional table.

An advise I would give to make sure an ERD accurately represents the business event it is supposed to capture is to make sure all stakeholders for this business event are present. It should also have a quality […]

Both threats are substantial but I believe the threat of turning data with lower accuracy into information and knowledge is higher. In the case of medical records, lower accuracy can lead to patient’s death while […]

In my opinion, there are pros and cons to both approaches. I do not believe one approach is necessary better than the other. I believe an hybrid approach would be best, a process that has both formal and informal […]

Data plays a major role with decision making at my current job in a medical device manufacturing company. We solely look at transactional data from different source systems for analysis; and the result of the […]

The most important takeaway from this course is the systems thinking approach as opposed to the traditional approach. If I was to explain what this course entails to anyone, I would say it is about looking at a […]

The agile methodology involves iterative and incremental development, so it is very easy to go outside the scope of the project, thereby being at more risk at failing than with the waterfall model.

In the CVS case, the most difficult stakeholder to get on board would be the customers. Customers most especially don’t like a change to anything they are already used to. The new process would be viewed by most […]

For my operations class this semester, we covered project management, where we were taught to use POM-QM software to manage projects. As part of my final project, I had to create a Gantt chart and also determine […]

In my organization, decisions tend to be made based more on qualitative metrics than on quantitative metrics.This is so because my organization is in the healthcare industry, where value added by a proposed […]

The Mistake I believe is the most important to avoid is the mistake of not tracking the scope of a project (mistake #5) because it leads to the most common pitfall of ongoing projects. Most software projects, for […]