Munir Mandviwalla

Extranet = communication between companies using the Internet
VPN = (virtual private network), technology or information that can be accessed confidentially

Any company that implements an efficient supply chain has a better chance in being successful. For example we compared Walmart and Target’s supply chain efficiency percentage and noted that Walmart’s percentage […]

Corey Kalkanoglu (tub49283)

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– Corey Kalkanoglu
– Management Information Systems / Senior
– 2013 summer internship with data analytics department

I really enjoyed this class. It helped me better understand the processes to follow with large sets of data, to (1) standardize and manipulate by ETL and (2) mine and visualize the data using software such as SAS […]

Without this class, I would not know anything about Data Analytics. This class taught us data analytics through data software / systems such as ERD Diagrams and SAS. This class was very useful since it engaged […]

I am a Management Information Systems major. Data driven decision making is very helpful because it helps predicts the future decisions. How can companies create an outlook strategy without data? Yes, it is […]

In week thirteen, our class learned about association mining. This is finding relationships between variables in large databases and discovering which items predict the occurrence of other items. A great example […]

Amazon.com uses segmentation to find its target audience, which eventually turns into profit. When someone is searching for a product, Amazon.com customizes each search by recommending other similar products. […]

The Sum of Squared Errors is measured by cohesion and separation. Respectively, they are used to measure the “close” and “well – separated” relation between the objects in a cluster. Both cohesion and separation […]

Both cluster cohesion and separation are essential in clustering since they are responsible for measuring the relation between the cluster sum of squares. Cohesion measures how closely the objects are in the […]

This is perfectly parallel with a project I am working on outside of class. I am building an ecommerce website for a vending B2B company, but when their customers order online they are not all given the same […]

Data mining is useful for discovering similarities in the music corporation. It deals with radio lists, compact discs databases, vinyl databases, cassette, and digital purchases. Data mining also comes into […]

In order for SpotCrime to work, it needs data analytics. SpotCrime is an example of data analytics since it depends on police reports and demographic data. Plus users have the same access as police do when […]