Laurel Miller

The most impressive thing i noticed that QVC can pick some key wards that move customer by their their analysis. For screen the key words, they observe the most popular words that people used online. I think it is a kind of technology good for both side—- customer and company. Thats what data work efficiency.

The most important lesson I gained from Mr. Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was that others will treat you how you let them treat you. I was surprised by his story of how he directly told his CEO that he would not sugar coat anything and was going to be straightforward. It seems like nothing big to tell someone that you will be honest and truthful with them; but when it is someone who has such control over your career and future, it takes a lot of courage.
Mr. Whetstone’s talk reinforced the concept and importance of meta-data. QVC uses the metadata they receive to infer what products customers will more likely purchase, at what time, with what key words and at what price. Metadata allowed QVC to track what qualities of a product will make consumers more inclined to make a purchase; and in return they were able to increase their revenue and customer satisfaction.

The biggest takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk to me was his last 15 minutes. It really stuck with him when discussing attitude and only allowing people to treat you how you let them no matter their position within the company. I really enjoyed to hear about how key words used during a pitch increased sales moments after those key words were used. Just using key words as data to increase sales is something I didn’t believe played that big of a role.

Looking at the data that you already have and finding out which data sources provide the most valuable information. To analyze the data effectively, you may need integrated systems to connect all the different data sources. In an enterprise, every employee has a responsibility as a CEO to analyze and deal with the questions, making sure running this collective better. Listen to your own voice and always do what you want to do!

I really enjoyed the guest lecture last Thursday. To me, the most important takeaway was how data can be used in real time to influence consumer decisions. During the lecture, Maurice talked about how QVC has a team dedicated to capturing, organizing, and interpret data to influence consumers through the TV program. Like if the host says “it’s a great deal”, people watching it are more likely to buy the product, or when a lot of viewers have questions about a specific product, the team can identify that and communicate it with the production team so that the host can address it live. I also found very interesting when Maurice mentioned the steps QVC was taking in order to use the cloud, and why only now they saw the necessity to do so.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was the importance of real-time data. I was intrigued to hear about how his company was able to use the saying of certain words to influence sales. What I learned is that there is a pattern between two separate things and not just one potentially coincidental occurrence, then there may be a relevant correlation.

I found the most interesting part of Maurice’s talk to be when he discussed his experience working on real time social media data and implementing it into a live TV broadcast. His teams idea to monitor twitter and use that data to help solve questions and target onto key words to boost sales in real time seemed like a fun problem solving job and a great idea. It seemed too easy in hind sight to monitor real people and use the data they were collecting to help a live TV show. It showed how data can be used simply to boost sales and help customers in rapid time.

For me, a very important take away from the class was about IT Auditing and its tie-up with Data Science. I actually asked him this question in class which is why I was more interested in this topic specifically. It is not super established in his company, a section of IT Auditing but they do have a branch of Cyber Security.

I think Data is used everywhere because, the company he works for namely QVC stands entirely because of data, and he also commented about Filter Bubble we discussed in class. Meta Data was something he pointed out in the beginning which we learned in the class already. Meta Data is the basic thing that gives the surface or a base for QVC to function to analyze other data and get the works done.

I don’t recollect much from his presentation though

I think that the most important takeaway from Maurice’s talk was that data is everywhere and can be used for virtual anything. I learned that the way data is used to make decisions over time has changed significantly due to the advent of new technologies, and the way we can use date to help ourselves is numerous. Overall, I learned that data plays an integral role in everyone’s lives.

Laurel,

Mr. Whetstone’s talk was an interesting one, but there was one key detail that caught my attention. Mr. Whetstone explained how QVC uses REAL TIME data to tailor its broadcasts to its viewers in an attempt to boost sales (aka say, “great value” more, etc). That is some real innovation, I imagine it’s existed in some form leading up to now, nonetheless it’s remarkable where tech has taken us now. I’m respectfully unsure how to tie this into the class material, give me a month and I probably could.

Zach Simon

Based on what Mr. Maurice talked about last Thursday, I think the most important take away to me was that you have to gain your respect and respect others the way you want to be treated. In the work world, I think that is very important and it was important to me because I have had two jobs where bosses thought they could talk to me any kind of way. I kind of did what Mr. Maurice did and let them know that I would not tolerate any disrespect and one time I could have been fired. But, like his boss, my boss knew that I was the only person to talk to our district manager like I did.
I learned that data is very important and is used more than I think in my daily life. He discussed the challenges in his job, as far as in someone coded something wrong and there was no code at all to match the correct one, they would to start over to match new codes. It is important to do all your research and to have the correct knowledge when working with data. He discussed how you have to be careful with the errors in big data because not all data is falsifiable.

The most important takeaway from Maurice’s talk on Thursday was one of his life lessons to let people treat you how you let them. I thought this was interesting because the cliche phrase is “treat others how you want to be treated” and that just doesn’t follow peoples behaviors. I learned that data is in everything. Maurice explained that everything has data and asked if we could name a profession in which no data is used, but oddly enough there is not one.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday is that you should always try to present yourself in a respectful and positive manner, no matter what you do. He stressed the importance of this very idea as a life lesson. I learned that data is used to make decisions all the time within businesses and that it can be used in many different ways and can pay dividends. This relates to what was previously discussed in class in that data is everywhere and that it is there to be turned into information which can consequently lead to better decision-making.

The most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk for me was to find a job that you enjoy doing. This was the thing that stood out the most to me because it was evident from listening to Maurice talk that he loves what he does and working with data. I learned that data usage is constantly being innovated, and the analysis of data is crucial in a consumer-run world. The work the Maurice and his team does is related to what we learned about how data is turned into information and how it is accessed and worked with through streamlined groups in a workplace.

I think the most important takeaway from Maurice’s talk was how data could be used to make businesses more efficient and profitable. I learned that data can be used to show opportunities for improvement within company systems ( for instance waiting until the end of the day to pack up customers goods to save money). Another important topic Maurice mention, which has also been discussed during class time, was that companies have access to our data so we should be careful with what we do on the internet.

I really enjoyed Maurice Whetstone’s talk today in class. I loved how passionate he was about what he does and that made it a lot more interesting and easy to listen to. He was really funny and made learning about his job within data science super intriguing.

Maurice was very enthusiastic, happy, and embodied his message of finding a career that you love. If Maurice was doing a job he didn’t enjoy, he wouldn’t have the motivation to go to college classes and speak to young people about data, their future, or finding the right career. His insight into a big corporation like QVC was very valuable along with his knowledge of data provided for a very informative talk.

The most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was that you can find data that can be useful if you look for it and analyze it. Mr. Whetstone talked about how he saw that QVC was not selling jewelry cleaner to the companies that they sold jewelry. He thought this was odd, and mentioned it and people started to sell the jewelry cleaner to jewelry companies. QVC made a lot more money because of this small change. This made me realize that even the smallest pieces of data can make a huge difference, you just have to look for it and analyze it.

Maurice Whetstone came into our class and made it clear to me why data is so important and useful. I wrote down a question for him which was very broad: what can data help you discover? What I didn’t know before listening to Maurice was that my question was quite broad; data can open your eyes to so many different things that you couldn’t figure out without seeing specific data. He gave the example of the polish that his company was NOT selling because they didn’t advertise it on live television when they would be selling the products that typically use that polish. Maurice, putting two and two together, realized that if the customers aren’t purchasing polish from their company, then they must be purchasing it from another company. Upon discovery, Maurice communicated this to those of importance and they got the message to the sales people on live television. Right then sales for the polish went up because they actually advertised it. One other thing that stuck with me was when Maurice shared some of his own advice with us at the end. He stated, “work that you love is a passion, the work you don’t love is just work, stress, anxiety, etc.” He also told us that people will treat us how we allow them to treat us, so we should never let them walk over us or that is exactly what they will continue to do.

The speaker gave us a good overview of how the company makes use of data. It is helpful for us to know the importance of data. I learned how he makes use of data.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was that data can be used to solve serious problems. We already learned in class that data is everywhere but he showed us the importance of organizing and analyzing data. He was able to do just that and help his company study trends in their sales and look for ways to improve.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from Maurice Whestone’s talk on Thursday was that your job should be something you’re passionate about. If you’re not passionate about what you do you’ll never feel fulfilled. I also learned that real-time data was used for QVC to improve sales drastically and decide how the host would introduce/explain a product. In class, we talked about how the web has become a personalized platform for everyone. QVC monitoring/collecting data from their customers’ requests are similar in a way to how Google personalizes peoples browsers with ads of products they seem interested in for example.

In my opinion, the most important piece of information Maurice Whetstone gave us during his talk on Thursday was that data can be used everywhere and in every profession. Thinking about that, really got me more excited about everything we are going to learn in this class throughout the semester. Data can be used to show trends in specific job fields that can be crucial information for organizations. In the sport and recreation career field, data on attendance to professional sports games can be important information for professionals working for that team as if attendance is low, they can do promotions, or other advertisements to help boost the attendance at games.

I think that the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was the importance of data analytics in the modern day workplace. I was amazed when Maurice mentioned that QVC uses real time data during their television broadcasts in order improves their sales for specific product. He said that QVC can extract data from customer comments in real time and use that information to tell the salesperson on T.V. to add to their pitch which can cause significant increases in sales. This just proves to show that data analytics is very important in the modern day workplace for essentially most companies.

I think the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was that data is vital for everything that we do. I learned how big data is used to make decisions at QVC about what products they should air and how it affects specific words and phrases that they use while promoting the products. In class, we had learned about what data is and big data and the presentation gave us real-life examples of how what we are learning in class is used in the real world.

I thought Maurice was awesome. I honestly had no idea what QVC stood for and like he stated “thought it was were old people ordered from.” The presentation implemented the importance of data, recognizing and utilizing data to improve your business. Maurice stated that retail is a forever business and it is crucial to obtain the knowledge of data (sales ie stainless steel and stainless steel cleaner), to be able to engage with customers. In the article, “In Data We Trust” mentioned that 1 in 3 business leaders do not trust their data; I learned that data is a huge asset to any business. I was unaware of QVC having their own television channel. He described how during the show they watch data as they say certain things and how it effects the buying of customers during the show.

I thought one of the biggest takeaways from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was when he talked about metadata and how metadata is so important. Metadata is used in every aspect of the business, and can be used as a way to see what areas of the business could improve. Maurice told us how he used the metadata from HSN, and how he found that even though HSN sold a lot of items made of silver, that they didn’t sell polish for those items. He took this information to HSN, and HSN then made the decision to start selling the polish for silver. He was able to improve the company as a whole based off what he found in the metadata, showing how useful and necessary it is to use metadata in businesses. We learned what metadata is in class, but I never grasped just how important and useful metadata is in all aspects of life, not just in a business.

The most importance takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk is that the way people treats you by the way you allow them. QVC is a cable, satellite broadcast television network, and flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping. They collect data in real-time with multiple channels. Collecting data in real-time can motivate consumers to buy. The company uses the data to help their clients’ businesses by increasing sales, and operating.

For me, the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was the importance of being open-minded when working with data. For example, Maurice was just running queries when he realized that Lenox was not selling silver cleaner to customers. I think this mindset will be helpful as we begin working with our own datasets because it will remind me that I might find trends in my data that are more interesting than the trends I was thought I would find.

The most important takeaway from Maurice Whetsone’s talk was when he said people treat you the way you let them and that even when you graduate college you still have worth even if your not that experienced yet. I thought real time data was really interesting. That showed me how much data really affects business decisions and real life things. I thought it was cool that they have a team of people who watch data so they can use it to increase their sales at the same time. It related to class because you both have said how data really is everywhere and any job you get will involve data.