Just a reminder that your final exam will be on Tuesday, May 9 at 1:00pm in the same room as class.  Please be on time.  Students will not be permitted to enter late. Please make sure that all missing assignments, quizzes and weekly questions are done before the start of the exam.  Grades will be submitted after the exam.

Here is the study guide for the third (final) exam.

Here is the link for the driver download

Here is the study guide for the second exam.

Here is the study guide for the first midterm exam.

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Yelp has long faced accusations that it manipulates its business-review ratings to sell advertising – five stars for a big ad buy, say, and two stars for a turndown.

The verdict from a federal appeals court: There’s nothing illegal about that.

Yelp adamantly denies giving its paying clients more favorable reviews, but even if such allegations could be proved, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Yelp is entitled to set a price for its ads – and the businesses reviewed have no legal right to a high rating.

“As Yelp has the right to charge for legitimate advertising services, the (alleged) threat of economic harm … is, at most, hard bargaining,” and not extortion or unfair business practices, Judge Marsha Berzon said in Tuesday’s 3-0 ruling.

The court upheld a federal judge’s dismissal of a proposed class-action damage suit by small-business owners who claimed Yelp’s sales representatives told them their ratings would depend on their decision to buy ads.”

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Yelp-can-give-paying-clients-better-ratings-5731200.php

Here is the syllabus for the course.

You should read the syllabus carefully. Everything you need to know is in this document.

We are all drowning in data, and so is your future employer. Data pours in from sources as diverse as social media, customer loyalty programs, weather stations, smartphones, and credit card purchases. How can you make sense of it all? Those that can turn raw data into insight will be tomorrow’s decision-makers; those that can solve problems and communicate using data will be tomorrow’s leaders. This course will teach you how to harness the power of data by mastering the ways it is stored, organized, and analyzed to enable better decisions. You will get hands-on experience by solving problems using a variety of powerful, computer-based data tools virtually every organization uses. You will also learn to make more impactful and persuasive presentations by learning the key principles of presenting data visually.