Kurt T. Whiteman

Whether or not to hire someone is an example of a business question that could be answered using decision trees. Some of the data that would be collected to perform analysis would be GPA, type of degree, level of […]

The SpotCrime website is an example of pivot tables (OLAP analysis) that we practiced in class last week. OLAP analysis provides a better way to display information for interpretation. On the SpotCrime website the […]

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Pivot tables are a great tool for analyzing data in a practical way. The interface and logic for extracting data is very intuitive and can be learned quickly. Before this class I had never tried using a pivot […]

Working for an e-business, one of our biggest business questions is how can we increase sales by reaching new customers. If we would like to know where a new customer heard about us, or how they were referred to […]

2. A company would need to change metadata if they expand globally. The customer table would need a new column to distinguish “country”. Similarly, if a company downsizes then they might need to delete columns. […]

1) I do not think that it is in MGM’s best interest to share data with Trump Entertainment Resorts. A casino in Las Vegas usually attracts a different kind of gamer than that of Atlantic City. People who go to […]

Choosing the wrong cardinality when going from even the simplest of associations — like customers and orders– would cause huge problems when implementing a database. The correct cardinality would be one customer […]

At first glance when reading this question, I thought information would clearly be more important to a company. However, upon second thought realized that data is necessary in order to have useful information. […]