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Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
The most important thing I learn from this course is recognizing how often we interact with data in our daily lives. The course also introduced a variety of useful programs and tools such as Tableau, Excel, and Piktochart to understand, analyze and display data. I would say that MIS 0855 is a very enjoyable and informative course which gives us…[Read more]
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Nhan Nguyen's profile was updated 8 years, 6 months ago
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Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
https://datafloq.com/read/how-social-media-companies-use-big-data/1957
According to this article, social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, hold a large body of data thanks to their nature of personal-level interaction with their users. Data at the disposal of these companies, such as likes, shares, follows, comments, retweets,…[Read more] -
Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-data-future-has-arrived-1456184869
The article discusses how big data is becoming more and more important and impactful to various aspects of human life. Big data is predicted to profoundly transform our experiences of daily life in an incredible way. While acknowledging that there are certain challenges to…[Read more] -
Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
I believe ‘Simplify’ is the most important of the 8 core principles in Hoven’s article. In the article, data visualization is said to be just a tool to help us do better. Data visualization therefore should be able to make the data and information easily and quickly accessible as well as comprehensible. Without simplicity, it would be diffi…[Read more]
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Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
I think Maurice Whetstone’s presentation clearly demonstrated how important and essential data is for any business in terms of data mining, collecting, analyzing and preserving. His example of the silver and silver polish sales made clear how proper data recognizing and interpreting could make huge improvement to a company’s profit. His exp…[Read more]
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Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/how-improve-bank-fraud-detection-data-analytics
This article discusses how data could be used to formulate a strong bank fraud detection strategy. According to the article, by developing advanced data analytics software that recognizes suspicious patterns (such as unusually high purchases of popular items,…[Read more] -
Nhan Nguyen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 9 months ago
One example of conventional wisdom is that people earn more money as they get higher degrees. This can be tested by surveying random individuals with different degree levels (high school, bachelor, master, etc.) and collecting data on their income and benefits. The result of the survey would show the relationship between one’s salary and the l…[Read more]