I enjoyed the course but I wish the classroom was in a computer lab. Without having a computer in class, it made the in-class assignments much more difficult. If the class was held in a lab then it would be easier […]

Marketing Major, Digital Marketing and MIS Minor, I use data a lot for market research and digital marketing analytics. For market research we use data analysis to see correlations between answers of surveys and […]

Yes I did like the lecture the main thing I learned was that data can be important in any setting. No matter what the career field, data plays a crucial role in any environment and can benefit anyone as long as […]

In week 13, I learned about association rules and about multiple product relationships. For example with the “Market Basket analysis” I understood how supermarkets use association rules create strategies to […]

In week 12, we learned about two different ways to cluster information: partition and hierarchical. The difference between the two are partitions are non-overlapping subsets while hierarchical is a set of nested […]

This week we learned about decision trees and how they can be useful tools for data mining in databases. We started using SAS and about utilizing the software to assist with decision trees. The decision trees, we […]

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Week 7 we learned ETL, Extract Transform Load, which was a new concept for me to learn. This process with data allowed us to transfer data between databases. We used multiple excel formulas to we learned in class […]

This was my first time with MySQL and it was a bi confusing. With all of the computers freezing due to the heavy volume I felt like I got left behind a little. I did understand the concept though and I see what we […]

Amazon.com uses data very effectively, so does Facebook. I think more importantly, though, is Twitter. Twitter streams so much data from random people chatting that it has a search mechanism where one can “peek” […]

In week one we learned about what data is and where it comes from. The types of data are transactional and analytical. We used the airlines reservations example to see how data is broken down and what data is […]

Referential integrity is a database concept that ensures that relationships between tables remain consistent. – As defined on About.com – Databases. The foreign key keeps all of the tables in a relationship with […]

A multi-valued attribute is when there are multiple values or data, entered into the same column. An example, like we used in class, would be songs to people, multiple songs to multiple people, one song to […]

We learned about the ERD system, where data comes from and how it appears when it’s configured in a chart format. An example would be the “crow’s feet” symbol for multiple on multiple data and things like that. […]