Chaitra Nataraj

Hello everyone, I am working at the Dow Chemical Company this summer in Philadelphia. I am an Information Systems Intern working on the reporting team, which is a global team of about 50 people. My team consists […]

I am a FIN and MIS major, data is often used when picking what stocks and equities you would like to buy or sell.

The guest lecturer was awesome and I really enjoyed his presentation. It taught me 1 that wawa uses data to determine whether or not to release a new product 2 whether the product will cannibalize its other […]

The decision to open up stores in FL when they considered many other states. They took into account many forms of data like prices of real estate, cost of living, costs of suppliers down here, brand recognition […]

I am staying an extra year because I just picked up MIS as my 2nd major with finance. This class made me really glad I did. I definitely laid a foundation as far as my technical knowledge of IT goes. It is good to […]

Spotcrime is an example of data analytics because the raw data is made available to the user. Like Vexhi said it isnt set up to answer a users question of the frequency of crimes, it used gives the user access to […]

A business question that could be answered using a decision tree is a finance investment opportunity with several probabilities of outcomes. The probabilities could be based on the global economy and it’s […]

I thought the hiring was interesting and as a Sixers fan, I think it is a great idea to hire an expert in analytics for our team. It is funny how many older people are so adverse to using analyics. Sixers coach […]

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In week 10, we learned about decision trees. Decision trees is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource […]

In week 9, I learned about how data mining can help us predict what will happen in the future by analyzing past data. This is all made possible through data mining Data mining is finding useful info from a large […]

In Week 7 I learned about ETL. this involves tranferring data from a transactional database and using it in an analytical database. I also learned how to find data simply by using pivot tables. Before i would only […]