Lawrence Dignan

Just a reminder that your final exam will be on Monday, May 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the same room as class.  You will not be permitted to take the exam if you arrive late.

Please make sure that all missing […]

Here is the study guide for the third (final) exam. And here’s the more detailed overview.

Here is the link for the driver download

Here is the exercise.

And here is the spreadsheet you’ll need [In-Class Exercise 13.2 – VandelayOrdersAll.xlsx].

I found the reading this week–beyond the people analytics one–to be a bit lacking on what we’re talking about on Monday. So I aggregated some items that better define descriptive, prescriptive, and […]

Here is the exercise

Some quick instructions:

You must complete the quiz by the start of class on April 22.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. […]

Here’s your reading for the week ahead:

Analytics Beautiful Game
Descriptive Predictive
Watching you at work

Sentiment Viz

StockTwits

Corporate efforts: IBM Tone Analyzer, AWS Comprehend

Here is the exercise.

And here is the spreadsheet you’ll need for the exercise [In-Class Exercise 12.2 – Sentiment Analysis Tools.xlsx].

Here is the exercise.

Some quick instructions:

You must complete the quiz by the start of class on April 15.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. It […]

Here’s your reading for 12.1, 12.2 and sentiment analysis:

Sentiment analysis
Unstructured data
Facebook no clue

For one point added to your final grade, here’s what I’m looking for. Read these following three Q&As and give me 100 words on one of them (your choice).

Death and data science: How machine learning can […]

Here is the exercise.

Here is the excel spreadsheet you will need to complete this exercise [In-Class Exercise 11.2 – NCAA 2013-2014 Player Stats]

Some quick instructions:

You must complete the quiz by the start of class on April 8.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. […]

Hadoop for non-geeks

A note about that first reading: It’s a bit dated and Hadoop has advanced since that article. Much of the focus in the open source community has been on side projects tied to Hadoop. […]

Here are the assignment instructions.  Groups MUST be 4 to 5 members.  You may not do this assignment on your own or in smaller groups than 5.

Input your teams into this Google Doc.

Note that the date on […]

Here is the study guide for the second exam. And here’s the more detailed version.

Agenda for the exam will be to:

–Form groups for last group project at the beginning.

–Take test