Evan Horst

The Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back” is fascinating. In terms of machine learning I never understand why television and movies treat artificial intelligence as the most naïve beings. Anyone who has been around children knows that you have to TEACH a child how to be nice. Being mean is inherent. All of the texts, emails, and pictures of Ash…[Read more]

Hey class. I am currently a junior in risk management. After graduation, I will be working in the insurance industry, specifically business insurance. To adequately supply a business with insurance you really have to know everything about that business. Utilizing MIS will help me track all of the information about each particular business I…[Read more]

I am a Risk Management Major. After graduation I plan on selling business insurance. In order to be successful at selling business insurance you have to know every facet of the business you want to insure. Without accurate data of the business, you will not be able to create policies that insure every aspect of that business. Data is absolutely…[Read more]

My wife and I are going through the process of refurbishing our house. We sat down and created a decision tree to make the most informed decision. We visited numerous furniture stores and made decision trees for each one of them. This process reminded me of the old adage of making a pro and con list for everything. Decision trees are sort of new…[Read more]

Karen,

Unfortunately it was all saved on government hard drives that I no longer have access too. I really would have never guessed that I would be using them again!

Thanks,
Evan

Before my time here at Temple I was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. I was in charge of 70 Marines in a maintenance section. I unknowingly made a swim lane diagram for each of my marines and their jobs. I focused on this approach because of the high turn over rate in the Marine corps. Marines were being pulled from my sections for deployments,…[Read more]

Hey class. I am currently a junior in risk management. After graduation I will be working in the insurance industry, specifically business insurance. To adequetly supply a business with insurance you really have to know everything about that business. Utilizing MIS will help me track all of the information about each particular business I insure.…[Read more]