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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
In the April 17, 2017 Harvard Business Review article titled Should Antitrust Regulators Stop Companies from Collecting So Much Data? author Joe Kennedy – who is a is a senior fellow at the Information T […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
In an April 20, 2017 article titled Hackers use old Stuxnet-related bug to carry out attacks, Computerworld reported that a security flaw that Microsoft initially patched in 2010 has become the most widespread […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
Issue 90 of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight published by Protiviti Inc. (“Protiviti”) addresses the role of Boards of Directors (“Boards”) in ensuring cybersecurity capabilities are continuously improvin […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
In this recent Forbes article, author Daniel Wesley, who is the CIO of CreditLoan.com, suggests that companies should consider simplifying their approach to data analytics before the volume and complexity of data […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
Although the title of this article suggests that it relates to CPA’s only, I found that not to be the case, which is why I chose to write about it.
The author, Lindsay N. Patterson, is the Chief Audit Executive […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
E&Y’s Global Assurance Digital Leader Hermann Sidhu authored this article that explains how analytics is creating a revolution in the field of auditing. He explains that – although data analytics has been used […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
Hi Classmates,
I am trying to complete Lab 5 using the files that are in the class bog and following the instructions in the Big Data Analytics Using Splunk book. Has anyone else encountered difficulties […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi MIS5208 Classmates,
A few of us have been chatting “off-line” about the following two homework tasks:
Are there credits charged back to a card number, and what are the explanations for these credits? […]
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
The IRS has released what they have tagged as the “Dirty Dozen” scams that taxpayers should be wary of this filing season, including:
Fake emails or websites looking to steal personal information through a s […]
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Candace T Nelson posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Thank you Binu,
I am glad you found this topic interesting – I find it amazing when new ways to tackle old problems are discovered. This is innovation at it’s finest!
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
I recently attended the 14th Fraud Seminar that was jointly hosted by the local chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFENJ Chapter 9) and Rutgers Business School in Newark, NJ. Richard Lan […]
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Thank you Binu,
I am glad you found this topic interesting – I find it amazing when new ways to tackle old problems are discovered. This is innovation at it’s finest!
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Interesting post, Candace. While I found the article, the logic and the approach interesting, I’m still a bit skeptical and am curious to see some of the additional supporting analysis and how the Letter frequency fraud detection can be applied to real world business data.
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
Governing columnist Tod Newcombe reported the main reasons data analytics may not be as successful in the public vs. private sector. Citing a strategy employed by the Chicago Police Department to predictively […]
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I was just reading an article the other day which was on similar lines – where data analytics fails not by virtue of itself but because the sampling is completely done wrong. The article mentioned that data analytics predicted a higher probability of crimes being perpetrated by specific races or ethnicity. The reality however, was that the data was skewed due to biases within the police department itself – as crimes committed by only certain certain races were being recorded. The article below further adds to your post :
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/us-police-data-analytics-smart-cities-crime-likelihood-fresno-chicago-heat-list
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Candace T Nelson wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
Marketwatch.com reported today that Alteryx Inc., a data analytics software company based in Irvine, CA filed a plan with the SEC today to raise as much as $75M in an initial public offering. Goldman Sachs, J […]