Mojahed Ibrahim

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 […]

Think for about 100 seconds what you learnt in class during week 12 (Association Rules) and summarize your thought here.

The office hours for Association Rules assignment are as follows:

Instructor: Speakman 201E – 11/26 from 3-4pm

TA: Alter Hall 603 – 11/27 from 2:30 – 4:00pm

Click here for a copy of the assignment. This is due on November 28, 2012.

A few days back, we discussed the possibility of using data analytics to offer personalized prices in online shopping – customers who are classified as high value may be shown a higher price than others. Here is […]

Interesting article on using Big Data to win elections – courtesy David Hamme!

Thanks David ….. its nice to have students contribute such relevant and contemporary articles.

I’ll have office hours Monday 11/19 from 3-4pm.

The TA will have office hours on Tuesday 11/20 from 2:30pm – 4:00pm in Alter Hall 603

Click here for a copy of the lecture slides on association rules. We’ll cover this in week 13.

In this lecture,  we’ll discuss association and related examples such as Amazon’s recommendation system and […]

Click here for instructions on the SAS inclass exercise on association.

Here are a couple of articles from Information Week on choosing analytics as a career option.

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