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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 4 months ago
Before I attended this first class, or even before i chose the MIS major, I never really knew what data was about. So for me, the most essential takeaway from this Data Analytics course was learning the importance of big data. This course guided me on the path to think more critically and analytically when approaching a problem. To my future…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 4 months ago
A business question for colleges/universities that could be answered using a decision tree could be “Which prospective students should receive a scholarship?”. The data that would be collected to perform the analysis would include (but not limited to): ethnicity, gender, family income, age, declared/undeclared major, High-School GPA, and SAT…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
Kickstarter, a social funding program where individuals can donate cash to get a worthy project going y uses R to interpret, interact and visualize the funding. One of their charts, generated by R, shows the rapid decrease in the number of days it takes a project to accumulate $5 Million. With such a rapid growth of kick-started projects, the…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
“The Internet of Yesterday vs. Today”
I find this graphic to be a great example of a good data visualization for several reasons. First off, the topic is interesting and all of the colors complement each other, making the graphic easy on the eyes to read. Second,…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
A situation where you could use a join to retrieve information from a set of tables would be trying to acquire the amount of Temple Students that have garage parking passes for the semester. The tables that would be included are “student” and “parking_services”. The student table would include “first_name” , “last_name” and “tu_id” (with TUID…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
For me, I think the trickiest thing about creating an ERD from a problem description is keeping track of all the entities and attributes that are present. A tactic that I’ve learned to attack this problem is reading the scenario with a few highlighters at hand, highlighting all the nouns that you see present. After that re-read the scenario,…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 8 years, 7 months ago
As a student in high school I spent my last year working in retail, more specifically, Sears. While working there, the management had been going under some changes in how we go about interacting with our customers. Ultimately, the goal was to “convert customers into members”. Our POS systems now required us to ask our customers for their basic…[Read more]
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Malik A Donald posted a new activity comment 8 years, 11 months ago