Laurel Miller

Hi All,
A couple of announcements about the third test.

1. The test will be held on Monday, December 10 from 1:00 – 3:00pm in the regular classroom. The actual duration of the test may be less than 2 hours, […]

A bonus of 0.25 will be awarded for answering all questions on this blog related to the guest lecture.

What is your major? List examples of  how you can possibly use data driven decision making in your job?

A bonus of 0.25 pts will be awarded for answering all questions on this blog related to the guest lecture.

Give examples of data-driven decisions made by Wawa? Do you agree that scientific (data driven) […]

A bonus of 0.25 will be awarded for answering all questions on this blog related to the guest lecture.

Do you think that the guest lecture was useful? What were the three main things that you learned?

The URL for the online  student feedback is  http://esff.temple.edu

Provide the mathematical definitions of support, confidence and lift. Also explain the business logic behind each measure.

True or False (Explain your answer with proper reasoning)

An Association Rule with a high confidence will also have a high support.

Why are association rules useful? Give examples of business scenarios (other than ones we discussed in class)

Kartik Hosanagar

Associate Professor, IOMS

The Wharton School, Univ of Pennsylvania

December 7, 2012

Speakman Hall 200, 1000am – 1100am

Seminar Title :

Abstract

Personalization is […]

Steven Johnson

Assistant Professor, MIS

Fox School of Business, Temple Univ

November 30, 2012

Speakman Hall 200, 1000am – 1100am

Seminar Title : The strength of words online: Emergent […]

Here are some examples of visualization – we discussed some of these in class yesterday:

1. A world of tweets

2. Facebook connection map

3. Baby Name Voyager – check how popular your name was in […]

Why are within cluster distance (cohesion) and between cluster distance (separation) important in clustering?

How is Sum of Squared Errors (SSE) measured in case of clustering? What does it indicate?

Provide additional examples of how companies can use segmentation to make better decisions

Click here for instructions on the in-class exercise.  Also, the data set required for this exercise is attached here. Submit a printout of your revised and improved charts to the instructor.

Click here for lecture slides on visualization. We’ll cover this in week 13.

In this lecture, we ‘ll discuss basic concepts in visualization, and some simple rules for displaying results in data mining.

Any final thoughts/comments/feedback for the course!

Here are the details of the guest lecture on Dec 3:

Speaker : Brian McCaffrey, Director, SAP and Business Process (Wawa)

Date : December 3, 2012

Wawa’s Director, SAP and Business Process

The bio of the […]

Hey All,

There is a small change in the schedule for the next 2 weeks. The revised schedule is as follows:

11/28 – Wednesday: Lecture on visualization

11/30 – Friday : Lecture and inclass exercise on […]