Laurel Miller

Hi everyone,

I am currently working at Independence Blue Cross- Business Technology Services (BTS) Department in the PMO as an Intern. At Independence I don’y have one specific role but many. On a daily basis, I handle support log tickets to give people access to report sites, help with on boarding new hires, financial adjustments, Project Quality Assurance and much more. I love that I am exposed to all aspects of the BTS department because it gives me an idea of what I want to do once I graduate. I enjoy the PMO and eventually want to get a full time job at Independence but I am not sure how to go about it since the internship ends March 30th and I don’t graduate until May 10th. Any suggestions?

Hi everyone,
I worked at PwC as an Enterprise Systems Solutions Intern in their Risk Assurance practice. During my internship, I worked a lot with SAP to test controls set up at clients to optimize their audit processes. I also used SAP to test clients’ competencies in various rule set functions. In addition, I spent some time working with RevPro, a revenue tracking and management system, which I helped to implement at a client to adhere to the new ASC 606 standards. In between, I also worked on data visualization projects, working with Tableau and Visio to demonstrate my department’s impact on business processes for the purpose of winning new clients and/or work.

Hello everyone,
I worked at Protiviti as a Security and Privacy intern in their Technology Consulting solution. During the internship, I worked on a variety of projects. My first project was a Cloud Risk Assessment that basically tried to ensure that the client adheres to the industry standards. My next few projects involved some Penetration Testing observations as well as validation testing. During the testing, I had to test each of the errors that came up during the vulnerability scans and categorize those errors by their risk factor. I got to use a variety of Linux security tools and used Microsoft Excel to collect and organize my data. Additionally, I’ve done manual google crawling to find as much information about a client as possible without leaving a trace on their tracking systems. At the end of each project, I had to help to write the report that went to the upper management.

Hello Everyone,
I worked at Union League as a Data Analyst/ Networking Intern for the IT department. Union League is a city club in Pennsylvania for privileged members in the United States. During the internship, I will be assigned to several projects with the IT department. My current project is working with different departments by analyzing the dataset from the past transactions, customer information, and current budget to create a specialized sales proposal for current members.Moreover, I will be analyzing the dataset to discover the potential pattern to increase our current member base. My next project involving data mining through Excel, Microsoft SQL server, and the company’s current data analytics software. In between projects, I will be working with my coworker to increase the effectiveness of our current cyber-security, and I will be in charge of the Networking in the company. For instance, LAN networking, VMware’s group policy, assign users to the different department through the virtual machine so on and so forth. In the future, my manager will transition me to familiarize with the industry and cyber-security. In all, during the internship, I will be in charge of data analysis, networking, and learning more skills on cyber-security.

Hi everyone,
I worked at Tonic Design Co. and a Client Services intern for their Client Services department. Tonic Design Co. is a technology agency that creates mobile, web, and voice applications for other companies. During my internship, I worked on a variety of projects using project management and business analyst skills. For example, I would check the budget, review timesheets, and draft status reports to clients. Also, I lead team meetings and I documented software and design requirements for multiple apps that the Tonic Design teams had to work on.

Hello everyone,
I worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers over the summer. PwC has professional services which include audit and assurance, tax and consulting. During my internship, I worked in Process Assurance which is a part of the Risk Assurance practice. The main responsibility that I had in my role was to identify if there were any risks associated with my clients IT controls. These risks were identified through multiple tests of the controls and walkthroughs with the clients.

Hello everyone,

I am currently working at SAP in the East Market Unit as a Demand Management/Data Analyst intern. I joined the SAP team this past winter and will continue throughout this semester. Part of tasks as an intern is to provide assistance with the design of the Business Processes Maps that are to be reviewed by the VPs of the eight different solutions provided in our unit. In addition, I analyze and collect data from different sources such as DMD, CRM, and Excel to generate data charts (in Lumira) of the top 10 programs of 2017 with the highest pipe actuals. My next projects will include identifying the new programs solutions to be running by the end of second quarter, and do the respective training to the sales team of our unit.

Hello everyone!
I am currently working at SAP American Head Quarters in New town Square, PA. My position title is Go for Growth Manager for the Financial, Banking and Insurance Market Unit in the East. Few of the tasks that I am in charge of include, Filtering, analyzing and cleaning data sets and making reports by creating charts using tools like Excel and SAP’s Business Intelligence Tools like Lumira to measure performance of the sales team. I am also in charge of making business development maps, sprint Plans for potential clients for the sales team so that they can pitch SAP’s solutions. The data that I analyze requires using SAP’s DMD and CRM and its Global data system. My role helps the Sales team within my industry and market unit select and analyze KPIs to catalyze new, running and on deck technological solutions and implementations for potential clients.

Hi Everyone!
I hope that everyone has had a wonderful new year and is excited about the internship that they are doing or have already done. My internship was for Cigna. I worked there this past summer, in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The role was for the Operations Leadership Program within Cigna, where I worked within their Service Operations department. As Cigna is a large company, my direct role was on the eligibility side of implementing new and returning clients to Cigna. I was tasked with improving the way that they report their data to higher level management as well as improving the way that the managers of eligibility are able to access, manipulate and use the data from their teams and incoming clients.

I look forward to hearing about everyone’s experiences!

Hello everyone!
I am currently working at Subaru of America, INC. in Cherry Hill, NJ as a PMO analyst intern. I joined the team as of May of 2017 and will be interning here until May of 2018. Some of my everyday tasks include establishing and continually enhancing standards and processes for project approvals, project tracking, project completion and termination. I have also been working on two project since I started. The first one is implementing Service Now a Project Portfolio Management solution which includes Demand Management, Project Management, SDLC, Release Management, Test Management, Time-Entry, Cost Management, and Resource Allocation. Some of the tasks in this project have included building requirements, writing test cases, performing test cases and training end users. The second project I have also been apart of is a Role-Based Provisioning project which consists of defining the access to data, applications and enterprise resources for each role in the company.

Hello!

My name is Tessa and I am currently working within a cybersecurity team as a cyber threat analyst at AmerisourceBergen in Valley Forge, PA. Since my start date, I have learned new skills, including using a cloud access security broker (CASB) as a tool during cyber investigations, blocking malicious domains and IP addresses, and upgrading our company security tools to the latest versions through the change management process. Furthermore, I have been working on a project of standing up a datalake, a tool that ingests data from several company data sources to run data analytics for security purposes. The project has been a long process, and is on phase two out of three. An other job responsibility that I have is reporting to directors and senior directors daily on the incidents and threats that ABC is facing, and the actions being taken for remediation.

Hi Everyone!
My internship was at Liberty Mutal Insurance at their headquarters in Boston, MA. I worked within their corporate internal audit group as an IT Audit intern. Throughout the internship, I worked on five different audits. These audits were mainly on the Unix/ Linux servers and databases. Although we learned about windows enterprise architecture in the MIS2501 class, the other intern in my group was assigned to the windows audits. Since I was an intern, I mainly focused on testwork of certain applications, servers, and databases. I also communicated records of audit concern in status meetings and formal reports. It was an interesting internship because I was also able to communicate with external auditors from Ernst and Young through walkthroughs and other forms of communication. I learned a great deal in my internship and I am excited to hear how everyone else’s go!

Hello All,
My internship is at Turn 5, located in Malvern, PA. Our company focuses on selling after market car parts to clients through multiple ecommerce websites. I’m working in the business intelligence department as an a business intelligence analyst. My job responsibilities are primarily centered around making our databases run more efficiently, solving business problems related to data and creating more efficient methods of acquiring data. The programs we use are T-SQL and Tableau, to conduct ETL and then analyze data. So far I’ve created about four Tableau dashboards, and written five procedures in T-SQL. Overall, T-SQL is more interesting to me, because it’s about problem solving, rather than explaining my solution to the rest of the business.

Hello Everyone,
My internship for this semester will be with Aramark, located in Philadelphia, PA. Aramark is one of the world’s biggest hospitality companies. They operate in several different divisions such as, University Dining, Business Dining, Correctional and Uniforms. During my time with Aramark, I will be working on insights and analytics team for their Sports & Entertainment division. My work will include analyzing large sets of data in excel by cleaning up data and using ETL. Once the data is cleaned up, we start to analyze and visualize trends in the data that can vary from food consumption to financial information. After trends are identified and conclusions are made, we pass along our findings to their respective department or site manager.

My time at Cross America Partners was pleasant. I started the internship a bit late, as I was searching for internships around my home area to no avail. I ended up looking the HR rep for Cross America after my friend told me that they hired interns, and the rest was history. I really like our office and it felt new and modern. There was even a Coca-Cola Freestyle in the office for the employees to enjoy. The projects that I completed during the internship were fulfilling. I expanded my knowledge on topics like databases and Excel while being in an office environment. I learned a lot about business that I would not learn in the classroom, and I think that will assist my career in the long run. I probably will not return there unless I decide to live in Allentown, PA during my career. For now I am looking for jobs and internships in Philadelphia.

My experience at AmerisourceBergen has been amazing. I first started with the full-time 10 week internship program in the summer and half way through I was asked to stay on part-time during the school year. I have been working with the same team during this fall semester and it has been awesome. Next semester it looks like I will get to move to the Analytics team as well doing one day a week with my current team and two days a week with the analytics team. The hope is to stay on fulltime once I graduate but we will discuss that further next semester. Overall I have been so happy with this experience and have felt so honored to be here and to be given this opportunity.

My experience at DecisivEdge was nothing but positive. Everyone there was great to work with and I was extremely happy with my contributions to the company. Being my first IT internship, I was not sure what to expect from this summer, but this internship exceeded all of my expectations. I learned a lot about communication, technology, and working in a professional environment. I really enjoyed my assignments and the way DecisivEdge asked me to reflect on my time there as well. Along with the other interns, I presented to the DecisivEdge team about my summer, what I had learned, what I liked, and what I didn’t like. I was very proud that DecisivEdge asked me to return next summer but, I wanted to experience what working at a larger company had to offer. Because of this I will be interning at Merck next summer in their IT division.

My internship at BD was a great experience. I was able to gain real world experience as to what it is like to be a project manager and gain some knowledge into the world of big data. It has allowed me to make lasting relationships, and gather contacts that could be helpful in the future. Being able to work at such a large company gave me the insight as to what it is like to work in a corporate office. I am nothing but thankful for my time at BD.

My experience last summer at Pfizer was incredible and gave me great professional experience. I was able to apply what I learned in prior MIS classes and use those skills on real, intricate projects. In all honesty, I enjoyed every day of work and was always excited to meet new people and learn new skills. While I was a bit overwhelmed when I first started, I became extremely comfortable there due to their great company culture. Another aspect I enjoyed about Pfizer was how large of a company it is. The amount of resources and amazing people the company had put me in a great position to succeed in my internship and the rest of my career. Overall, I had a wonderful time over my 12 weeks at Pfizer.

My internship at Sooryen Technologies was a great experience. I have been able to gain the real world experience of what each day looks like as a software developer. Through this experience I was able to meet many people and network with the employees. I will continue my internship with the company until the end of the next semester and potentially receive a full time offer. Overall I am having a stressful but great time working at Sooryen.

The most important takeaway I gained from this course is a clearer, more holistic understanding of data analysis, the tools used, and how data analysis permeates multiple aspects of our everyday lives. If I had to explain this course to a future scholar, I would say that MIS0855 focuses on methods of storing, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data through many different methods. Students will also come to understand the importance of Data Science across numerous fields of study.

The most important takeway from this class in my opinion is the approach on how to write reports with tableau. The technical aspects in correcting data, creating new report with tableau and hands on approach into sentiment analysis has added much important skills. At work I learn quite a bit on the admin side of data analytical dealing with IBM Cognos and its nook and cranny. In this class, I actually learn on developing functional report.

The biggest takeaway from this course were the definitions of technology words I got to learn. Things like “big data”, “regression analysis”, “sentiment analysis”, and “hypothesis testing” are just a few. This course is really about a broad overview of the numerous trends and techniques going on in the data world. Additionally, it had a hands on work with tableau and excel and a few other programs.

The biggest takeaway from this course I notice is my new skills involving tableau. This course was the first time I was given the opportunity to be exposed to tableau. This course showed me how dynamic tableau is and how useful it can be in numerous amounts of situations. I’ve also noticed tableau a lot more in my internet searches and since I was exposed to it I can use it to its fullest potential.

The most important takeaway from this course is that we learned how to properly display data to readers. Using Tableau and Excel, we learned that there is much more to data displays that pie charts and pretty colors. The skills learned in this class can be applied to all majors when it comes to doing projects, not just business or tech people. This course gives you a solid intro to Excel and Tableau, two skills that you probably would not learn in other gen-ed courses.

My biggest take away from taking this course would probably be the ability to read and analyze data and learning to be able to make something out of data and comprehend it. Before this class, I had never heard of Tableau, but this course has given me the basic knowledge of how to maneuver Tableau if I ever needed to for a potential job in the future. Also in this course, I was able to explore all the different options in Excel that I didn’t know existed before.

The most important takeaway from this course to me is Tableau. I liked the hands-on aspect of the course because it allows you to get comfortable using other programs which we can use in our other courses and future jobs. If I had to explain to a future MIS0855 scholar what this course was about I would tell them it’s about learning what big data is and how to use all of this data by making reports, cleaning it etc.

What I found to be the most important takeaway from this course was learning that data is not always objective and accurate. As seen in the data cleaning exercises we did, sometimes just making sure the data is accurate and if not, fixing it, can take up as much time and effort as analyzing it. In explaining this course to a future MIS student, I would say that this class focuses on explaining how big data is essentially everywhere, and how you should approach it. I would also mention how you become familiarized with excel and tableau as they were significant programs in the course and obviously very valuable skills to learn.

I chose this course because I am thinking about majoring MIS. (I’m still business undecided. I haven’t decided my major yet) I thought it is a great chance to check I’m interested in this major or not and it’s really what I want. And my expectation was really right. Every ‘In-class exercise’, assignments, quizzes were really helpful and I could generally learn what MIS is. Moreover, the class was really well structured. Professor precisely tell us what we should do every week and give a lot of help doing homework. Sometimes, there were several tough questions on the assignments but activities in the class were really helpful. I really recommend this class to students who want to study MIS for the first time or who really want to know what MIS is.

The most important takeaway from this course is how I was taught real life applications to mining data, in which that is the industry I am immersing myself. Being able to use technologies like Tableau, which is used often in the real world, is invaluable experience to be able to learn in a class. I would absolutely recommend this course for anyone that wants to truly get something out of a class, and wants to make themselves a more valuable asset and boost your resume.

The most important takeaway from this class was learning piktochart while doing the Data Analytics Challenge. I have used piktochart ever since the challenge, and it has improved my presentations not only in MIS but other Fox classes. Being able to display data in a way that is understandable to the viewer, provides the presenter with more credibility because of the professionalism in the way it looks. I would recommend this course for students looking for an edge to set themselves apart from other students. It is not an easy course, but I believe the skills learned in Data Science can overall provide you with more opportunity than the other classes at this level.

The most important thing I have learned from this course is specially what data is & how to work better with excel. I feel as though I have a much better understanding at what data specially is than I have before. I would say this course is about learning how to handle data by doing things like cleaning it or being able to apply data to something like Tableau.

The most important takeaway I have is that data is everywhere. Everything is data, and different parallels and relationships can be drawn between seemingly unrelated factors. Additionally, I feel much more comfortable with Tableau, Excel and Piktochart. Overall this is a very beneficial course, I would recommend it to anyone who expects a future that involves any type of reading information. Even though its a GenEd, MIS0855 has tremendously helped prepare me for the real world.

The biggest takeaway that I have learned in this class is that the world has become technology and data dependent. Data analytics is resourceful in all industries, businesses, etc. If I were to explain MIS 0855 to a future student, I would explain that this class is the first step in learning how to understand, clean, and analyze data – things everybody will soon have to know how to do.

The most important takeaway that I have learned in this class is the usefulness of displaying data. We have learned that data can be found anywhere so it applies to every single major. But how the person chooses to display the data is important. There are so many ways to do so between Tableau and Excel. Displays of data can be useful in future business meetings or projects.

The most important thing that I will take away from this course is all of the new skills I learned with Microsoft Excel and Tableau. These two programs (especially Excel) are super useful tools to have knowledge of. Learning how to make data visualizations and charts and graphs through Tableau is such a great skill to have going forward. Also, just learning about how data is literally everywhere, and we have no idea just how much data is truly available to us.

The most important takeaway from this course is learning how to understand and work with data. I have never worked with the programs, or data in general until this class. So after learning how to use them, I can say that I have learned a lot about data. I would recommend this to students who are interested in gaining a skill on working with data using different types of programs.

The most important takeaway I got from this class is to look over your data. It is so easy to make a simple error when importing or recording data. This simple mistake could skew/ruin complete data sets. Going along these lines, having your data clean and organized is the best way to prevent or catch data errors. If you want to learn more about computer systems and how to use them properly, MIS 0855 is a great course to do so.

The most important takeaway that I’ve gotten from this course is how much better I’ve become at analyzing and interpreting data. With my newly acquired knowledge in Tableau, Piktochart, and even Excel, I feel more comfortable with my abilities to manipulate data, and draw more accurate predictions and conclusions from it. This course is all about getting more comfortable with data, and learning to analyze and manipulate it.

The most important take away I got from this course is the ability to get big sets of dirty data and to clean it sufficiently. Before this class I did not know there was dirty data everywhere such as, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, etc.. If I had to explain this course to a student I would say this course is to help you get comfortable with recognizing data and viewing such.

The most important thing that I will take away from this course is how to clean up data. There are so many “dirty” data sets in the world and I believe that it is important to get the most out of a data set. If I had to explain this course to a student I would describe it as dealing with data. It is important to learn how to read data, write data, and interoperate data.

The most important takeaway from this course is how to analyze and interpret data. You can input data into programs such as Tableau or Excel and get results back from them. There are various ways to understand the data that you are reading, as well as different ways to show someone else who may not understand the data in a way that it clicks with them so to say. If I had to explain this class to a future student taking Data Science, I would have to say that taking this class will enable them to be prepared for future courses and a career. The programs they use will further expand their knowledge and can give them a competitive edge that others who don’t take the course won’t have.

The most important takeaway from this course in my opinion is the practical training on software that you may not have encountered before this class. They allow the user to not only recognize trends in data, but put them together in order to get a more complete story. The training in this class is generalized enough to be applied to just about any data set, and as a result students who take this course have a significant leg up against those who do not.

I believe that data analytics is an important skill to have in a business career. You will be able to work with data and be able to analyze data in order to make an informed decision. If you would like to succeed in your career, the more you know Excel, the more you practice daa analytics and Tableau, and other data analytics skills, the better it is for stepping up the ladder in your career.

This course has greatly developed my ability to analyze and visualize data properly through the cleaning of said data and the creation of graphics to communicate the patterns found in the data. Previous to this course I had no experience with Tableau, however now it is a tool I feel comfortable using when trying to visualize patterns in data. If I were to tell another student about this course I would tell them that this course will help them develop their analytics skills which has been cited as one of the major skill area’s employers are looking at today. After taking this course you will feel comfortable working with large data sets, visualizing trends, and leave with much better understanding of the science behind understanding big data.

I think the most important takeaway from this course would be how important data is and how data should be analyzed plus visualized. I think learning how to use Tableau was an important takeaway as it could be something I could offer to potential employers as a skill. If I had to explain to a future MIS0855 scholar what this course is about, I would say is that data is everywhere and in this class your learn why its so important. As an MIS major, I believe this course is a better introduction to MIS than MIS2101 and you actually learn more in a sense of using data to understand it and make decisions.

I think the most important takeaway from this course was learning that data is everywhere and is relevant to us in many ways. If I had to explain this course to someone else I would say it teaches students how to find, sort, and analyze data to make it resourceful for others. For example, using the data collected and putting it into Tableau tot create a visual representation of the data that makes it easier to understand. Another important part of this course was learning how to utilize data when making critical decisions.

Personally, the biggest takeaway from this class is how important data is. Data can be used in so many different ways for so many different things which is why it is necessary to have correct and clean data. MIS0855 is a course that teaches you some of the many things you can do with data. This class makes you familiar with excel and Tableau which is something that many people do not fully understand how to operate. This class is very hands on having in-class activities that help with assignments and projects that you have to do in class.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from this course is learning how to analyze data. We must first be careful of what data we choose, know how to clean that data, and finally know how to derive information and knowledge from data. This course has taught me all of these steps, and how to use tools such as Tableau and Excel to do so. If I was explaining to a future student of the course, I would say this course is all about how we can extract useful information from data, and in doing so it teaches you how to use helpful tools including Tableau and Excel.

I think the most important takeaway from this course is the hands on experience of analyzing and cleaning data. The softwares we used in the course actually taught me how to make use of the topics we learned throughout the course and gave me the ability to apply the stuff we learned. I am now able to use Tableau, Excel, and Piktochart because this course taught me a lot about each of them.

The biggest takeaway from this course is how important it is to analyze data and finding errors in data. I would tell someone that this course teaches you how to sort, clean, and use data in Excel and Tableau. Also, how you would transform data into useful infographics.

I think what I learned the most from this course was how to properly clean data, analyze it, and effectively display it to an audience. There is a lot that goes into analyzing data and I believe the course taught me the basics of analyzing data. Although it is a very complicated process the course broke it down so that it was easy to learn and understand and I can confidently say I can clean, sort, and display data proficiently which is a valuable skill to have in 2017.

I think that the most important takeaway from MIS0855 is that data is everywhere. This data can be dirty data, also known as data that contains errors. Even though data can be dirty, it is still everywhere we look and affects everything we do. If I were to explain to a future MIS student what this course is about, I would say that the course is all about understand how to find data, understand it, and make further analysis on the data. As an MIS major, I would definitley recommend this course becuase I thought the class was very well taught with many hands-on, in-class activities which really emerges students into the world of data.

The most important takeaway for me from this class, is realizing that even things you don’t think are data, are in fact data and since we are surrounded by data, it is important to realize the good from the bad, and how to handle it. In addition, the course helped me figure out how to, not only realize data, but how to use and predict from data. If i had to describe the course to someone, I would say this course was about locating and using data in a way to benefit ones self, either by knowing how to formulate data for easy structure and visual, or to be able to use pass data to find correlation in order t predict a future outcome.

I think the most important takeaway for me from this course is that data is literally everywhere, and there are multiple different ways to fix, analyze, interpret, and visualize data. If I had to explain to someone what MIS 0855 was about, I’d tell them the course first introduces you to the different types of data and then continues to teach you how to interpret and manipulate data. You learn to differentiate between good and bad data, and then learn how to fix bad data, as well as how to put the data into visualizations for a better understanding of the story the data is trying to tell.

I believe the most important takeaway from this course is understanding how much data is out there flowing around. It is important for us to know what do to with all this raw data. Being able to analyze, interpret, and visualize data makes every possible thing easier in life. This class is about learning hands on experience with technology and data tools. You will learn how to make your life ten times easier if you have a handful of data.

The most important thing I took away from this course was the understanding that their is different types of data, and different ways in which data is handled. It is important to grasp the breakdown of analyzing, visualizing and clarifying data, because these steps allow people to better comprehend the data that is being presented to them. Prior to this course, I did not fully know what data science was. This class has taught me a great deal about the importance of data as well as the behind the scenes process in which data scientist go through to bring that data to life.

The most important takeaway from this course is that data is everywhere. Before really learning about data in depth, you don’t realize how much data surrounds you on a day-to-day basis, but it really is everywhere and people are always analyzing it whether they want to or not. In my opinion, gaining hard skills within actual data analysis/visualization programs like Tableau and Excel went along great with the course. It’s one thing to just understand what data is and the different types, but its better to be able to use tools to help you analyze it better and see what it means visually. If I had to explain the content of this course, I would say it is really learning about data in general including the different types, where you can find it, cleaning it and being able to figure out ways to visually represent it within programs like Excel and Tableau.

The most important takeaway from this course is that we can have insights about anything when we have data about it. We can do almost anything from data as long as we are using the right tools and the right techniques. The way I would explain what this course is about to future MIS0855 is that this course is teaching them how to work with raw data, how to make sense about them and how to benefits from the data.

I think the most important takeaway from this course is that data is literally everywhere and being able to actively sort and analyze data is something future employers are going to want from their employees/new hires. In this class, I learned that there are so many insights that you can pull from data and that those insights are crucial in any and every work environment. Before this class, I didn’t realize how dependent my future career path was in data analytics and how often I actually encounter and use data every day. For future students, this class essentially teaches you the importance of big data, why it’s relevant and applicable and how you can sort, analyze and display big data. It’s your first introductory course in properly sorting raw data and teaches you how to, essentially, read data to produce insights.

This biggest takeaway from this course, for me, is that data is everywhere, and is in every aspect of society. Every major should not how to find data, clean data, and analyze it. Having this skill set will come handy in your everyday life. If I were to explain this class to another student, I would tell them the course shows you data in its simplest and most complex forms, and by the end of the course, you will know how to handle both. It’s an introductory course that will prepare you for other courses, and not just MIS ones.

My biggest takeaway from this course is the importance of data. With us being a business school no matter what major, the one thing we all use and rely on is data, so it was very valuable to better understand the logic behind it and how to interpret it. I would say analyzing data is definitely a challenge for most people without a technological background. However, MIS 0855 broke it down so well into terms that I was able to enhance my prior knowledge to data. I learned so much more when I look at data from this course.

I think the most important takeaway from this class was how important data is and how to clean it properly and analyze it. Data can be viewed in so many different ways, so it’s really important to make sure the data is displayed correctly and shown to the audience in the proper way, whether it is in an infographic or a table or any other display. Also, it is really important to make sure the data is not dirty because that can skew all of the data and someone’s opinion of the data. In this case, the data will not be correctly displayed and the people looking at the data will be misinformed. I would say this course is about how to properly extract and analyze data and then how to use the data the display to our audience.

I think the most important takeaway for this class for me was the importance of cleaning data and using Tableau. So many companies have such an abundance of data out there that they don’t know what to do with. Taking the idea of cleaning the data and making it into useful information is something that many companies are looking for these days, and I think that skill will be very useful in the future. On top of that, I had no experience with Tableau so that is something I am going to take and use with my career in the future. Tableau is an excellent program to demonstrate how you can manipulate data into useful information, and I am happy to have learned the basics of it.

My most important takeaway from this class was just to see how much data affects our day to day lives more than i have ever imagined. Obviously i understand the huge part technology plays in our lives, especially when compared to other generations, but data can tell such a telling picture about our past, present and future. If i had to explain what this course was about, i would say it enlightens you on the future of companies and shows you realistic applications of what we are learning. Sometimes classes may seem dull and boring because we can never perceive to understand how this applies to our future, but with this we can see data being used in our everyday lives.

I think the most important takeaway from this course is how important data visualizations are. Not only is it important to gather and analyze data correctly, you must also represent the data properly. Data visualizations, through many different softwares, convey messages plain text simply cannot. This class showed me just how important data visualizations are and supplied me knowledge and skills I can use throughout my professional career.

I think the biggest takeaway from this course is just how quickly and drastically our world is moving toward data. Data is the future of not just the business world, but society at large, with large amounts of data being taken from social media, Google searches, reviews, etc. Data is an incredible indicator and predictor for success for companies. It’s more than a decision making tool, it’s the sole basis of most decisions in a successful work environment. Similarly, data is nothing unless interpreted in useful ways. Programs like Excel, Tableau, and many others provide us with interesting ways at looking at data and interpreting it. This course is really good at highlighting the importance of data visualization as not only a practical use for data, but also as a creative one too. I know that my career and many of my peers’ careers will be defined and shaped by data.

I think the biggest takeaway from this event is that data is the amount of ways that we can analyze data. Just by using Tableau and Excel, we were able to learn that there are many different ways that we can interpret the data, as well as visualizing it. Another thing I learned was how complicated data can get. The best example of this was the cleaning data assignment, how when the data set is too large to go through, there are many ways to manipulate the data to get more accurate answers. There are lots of people who look at a data set and do not know what to do with it, and this class does a terrific job on teaching students what you can do with a dataset.

I think the biggest take away from the course is different ways to analyze data. For me personally, I was able to work with excel more on the data side. There are other courses at Fox that introduce to excel, however this was honestly the most helpful course for what I am trying to accomplish in my career. I was introduced to Tableau, which is a very helpful application for analyzing data. I will definitely being using Tableau in the future. Honestly every business major should take this course as their Gen ED science class.

My most important takeaway from this course would definitely be being able to apply what we learn in class to topics that mean something to me personally. I feel like once you take what we learn in Data Science outside of the classroom and into real life with real life things, it shows that you truly understand the work. If I had to explain to a future MIS0855 scholar what this course is about, I would say that it’s about understanding everything about data: what data actually is, different types of data, what and how it can be used, and then applying all of that to real life things, because data is everywhere.

To me, the most important thing I have taken from this class was the ability to visualize data and present it in an effective way. This course should be viewed as not only being able to analyze data, but also being able to show it to an audience. This course also allows students to dive into current issues with data analysis and understand the slang behind some terms used by IT specialists. Finally, this course does a phenomenal job of breaking down terms and applications of big data and allows for a complete understanding of each element of data.

The most important thing that I can take away from this class was learning how to use Tableau and visualize data. Before this class I have never heard of the software Tableau. The only software that I used for data before this was Excel, and I must say Tableau is a much better way to display data. Now that I have learned about Tableau I can use it for other classes in the future to give my work a better appearance. This class allows students to understand everything about data, from what data is all the way to working with different types of data. It taught me how important data can be and how the smallest errors can give you bad data. This class taught me the data is all around us and everywhere you go there is some type of data.

I think that the most important takeaway from this class is learning how to analyze and visualize data using Tableau. Working with data an cleaning it is really important as well. If I had to explain this course to someone I would explain it as that this course is all about data. It allows students how to work with the data all the way from cleaning them till visualizing.

The most important takeaway from this class is how valuable data is for companies and how important insights can be made to benefit both the companies and consumers. The emphasis of utilizing programs to turn data into knowledge will be useful skills in the this age of big data and information overload. Tableau and excel were effective tools when analyzing data and obtaining key insights and it seems professionals are still reliant on these programs for data analysis based on the articles read throughout the class. Although qualitative analysis has it complexities, I wish the course focused more on it and went into deeper detail about qualitative analysis since it seems to be a skill high in demand.

I’m a psych student, and I know the data is very important part of the research study. and before this course, I had a statistic course, but there have some differences between those two courses. The most important thing I learned of this course is how to use Excel and Tableau. I will recommend this course to future students, I will say this course will help you not just in the college, but for the whole career after yours graduated.

The most important takeaway from this class was developing your data analysis skills to a software called Tableau. Being able to intergrade and certain data sets that may be dirty or clean into the program and finding different ways to look at it. Another big takeaway is, how much data is used in our everyday lives but we don’t realize it because it may not be in number sets.

This course taught me that data is everywhere and that are many different ways in which that data can be analyzed. One main takeaway with this is that when analyzing data it is important to make sure that the information within your data set is correct and that there are no mistakes. This ensures that the data does not become “dirty”. In addition, when displaying visuals about your data, for instance, using a pie chart or bar graph, it is important to use the appropriate visual. By doing this, the audience will be able to fully understand the message you are trying to convey with that data.

The biggest thing that I got from this class was the tableau skills. I do not have a lot of hard skills so this was a very important thing for me to pick up. I also just have a better understanding of data now an the role it plays in our daily lives. I think these two things combined have helped me prepare for the future even more.

The biggest take away I got from this course would be the lessons we learned about practical applications of data and how to use excel and tableau. I took the MIS class required for my major and hated the professor and subject and got a low grade, but I thought that it was a decent subject so I took this elective the next semester. I can honestly say I learned more useful tools in this class than I did in the big MIS class and the online Excel course we are forced to take. I would’ve taken this class just to learn tableau alone but ended up learning useful tips on how to be more efficient in Excel as well.

The most important takeaway from this course for me was the usage of Tableau. I heard a lot about this data visualization software but I never really used it. This class helped me learn this software. This course also helped me brush up my excel data manipulation skills.

Although this class was a gen ed for me I learned a lot of stuff that is important in my major. As a communications a major, we look at a lot of data when creating advertisements or when finding out information about a brand. The most important take away from this class is having clean data. Before this course I kind of just assumed that if data was created by a reputable source than it was correct. I now know how to go through any data set, small or large, and how to clean it and make it valid for use.

Although for me this class was a gen ed, I learned a far amount. I would say I improved my technical skills, I learned a lot about tableau and excel which are important skills to learn. That is what I would say as the most important takeaway from this class is the knowledge of how to use this programs. This programs are very useful skills to have in the business world and can help a lot on resumes.

I would have to say that the biggest takeaway from MIS0855 is the importance of data and its applications. For instance, raw data is useless unless you organize it, clean it, and make use of it. I learned how to display data in this class from using softwares such as Tableau and Excel.

The biggest take away i learned from MIS 0855 is using discovering another database application other than excel or acess
Tableu comes in handy and makes visual presentation looks better

I think learning how to use tableau was my best and most important takeaway. I am an MIS major, so i knew a lot of the topics that we discussed about data. However, I knew nothing about Tableau before this class and I learned that it is very useful.

The most important takeaway I received from this class is the importance of checking your data. There are several instances when data is dirty and it can make a large impact on the information someone is trying to develop. If I had to explain what the course was about to a future student I would tell them that it is about data, to say the least. You learn about the different ways in which data can be utilized and you learn how to actually utilize it in those ways.

The biggest takeaway from this class was how important it is to have clean data for a proper analysis. I think learning how to use tableau to create a visualization for the data is important and relevant to everyone regardless of what their majors are. This course taught me how to look at data and clean it so the results are not skewed, then turn it into visualizations that are easy for audiences to interpret.

The most important takeaway from this class would be how to analyze data and that data analyses can be skewed. How to clean data and look for errors was also useful. This class showed me that it is important to know how to view/analyze data no matter what field you go into.

I would say that the most important takeaway from this class is that, generally speaking,” it’s not all about the numbers” – meaning that while data in and of itself is powerful and plenty, the analysis of data is even more important. For data to be able to engage an audience and make persuasive arguments, it must be organized, clearly evaluated, and appealingly visualized with precision. I would say this class is all about understanding how to approach big data sets from the start. It is focused on learning: how to ensure the quality of data being used in analysis, how to best measure and compare specific pieces of data, and how to present findings in a way that fully explains the illustrated data and makes a coherent point by telling the data’s “story”.