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Michael L Baker commented on the post, Weekly Question #7, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I think cloud computing think will have the biggest impact on my future career. Insurance is always viewed as being in the dark ages with technology, it just is ha! This past summer I witnessed the company I was interning for invest huge amounts into cloud on-boarding and witnessed the same thing with my winter Co-op. The cloud computing and…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 15, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I think CRM is more important to an organization because customers are the reason a business continues to function.
Customer relationships are an Elevel concern for all major industries – it’s a shared problem that everyone trying to earn a profit has. Customer data can show economoic forecasting and influence the year ahead for a company.…[Read more] -
Michael L Baker commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
I think a lot of people may easily say that the most interesting or possibly important innovation in the last few years would be app development for interfacing consumers with products directly to them instead of going to market. However, I disagree, I think the most disruptive (preemptively)innovation is drone delivery. This has the potential to…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
I’m currently interning at an Employee Benefits provider, and study RMI at Temple, collecting good data and having an integrated system is crucial in Insurance and Risk Analysis. This is important because inaccurate date can alter the calculation of a risk, then further incorrectly load the premium, and this causing an incorrect amount to be…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Decision trees are constantly used throughout sports and certain competitions. I’ve seen many tree diagrams before we had reviewed them for hot dog eating contests, fantasy football, beer pong tournaments (all of age), and investments for mapping out finances. All of these work with decision trees because there is a single decision needing to be…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker commented on the post, Weekly Discussion Question #2, on the site 7 years, 8 months ago
In my internship in insurance, I would think Swimlanes as a method of analyzing processes and using visuals to tell a story would be more beneficial for the employee benefits sector. I think this would be more effective due to the many department communications and projects that end up overlapping multiple roles and operations. With a visual to…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
This is my first time viewing the video, but I’ve actually heard about it before. I felt as if the most interesting fact was also the most overlooked that’s occurring right now in the business world, having four generations side by side. I’ve actually encountered this, well I guess participated in this, during my summer internship. Additionally,…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 5 months ago
A KPI I use everyday is the temperature from the “Weather” app on my phone. It’s measurable and specific to the geographic area I am in. It’s achievable in the sense I need to adjust my clothing choices according to whether or not its hot or cold out to be comfortable. It’s relevant because it impacts a ton of daily choices a person (myself) will…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
From my perspective the most important takeaway from this course was the usage of Tableau. I’ll be using it all summer and the exposure to it in this class was super helpful. Understanding the ways in which we can describe data through visualizations, how to represent that data, as well as manipulate it to be seen in the desired way.
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3050022/apple-ios/ios-9-3-is-apple-s-most-stable-ios-yet-data-claims.html
This article looks at the crash rates and statistics behind apple’s newest operations program. Considering we are currently using visualizations, this article is relevant and reminded me of our last assignment. -
Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
It’s funny to talk about excel as a Fox student, being that we have about three or four classes based around it. I have in fact made mistake number six recently on an msom assignment. The data type was formatted as such that the dates for he column were (ex. ##/##/##), I missed one of the dashes ‘/’, and it became a larger integer. The thing is,…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
I think the most important principle is “Be Skeptical”. It’s hugely important to ask questions and figure out why data is relevant. While there might be limitations through programs, using tools that allow you to question data is a step in the right direction. Asking questions always gives you more answers than just accepting what you’re given.
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
I think the most important takeaway from Maurice Whetstone’s talk on Thursday was how data mediums and measurements are always changing and growing. Data is heavy stored and pieced together like a puzzle almost to where it is pertinent. For instance, he spoke about huge data storage facilities to which data is looked over maybe days or weeks later…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
– As an economics major, I always find the market place activity interesting. I think we could be on the edge of a very slippery slope. This of course correlates to the federal reserve and the worth of a dollar. Hopefully it’ll be…[Read more]
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Michael L Baker posted a new activity comment 8 years, 9 months ago
A piece of conventional wisdom that I have heard is that when men start lifting when they are younger they are more likely to have stunted growth; they’ll be short. This could be disproved or supported by reported heights of men who lifted as pre-teens or young teens, as they approach twenty three (the age where men stop growing). However, another…[Read more]