Nina M Sjostrom

(1) A possible business question that can be answered through a decision tree could be whether a company wants to expand by opening up a new business location. The predictor variables that I think would be needed are: how is the economy looking for the location you are interested in (that city perhaps), population in the location in which your…[Read more]

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/cocktails-interactive/
I think this is a cool example because it can easily show you how to make the drinks in real life. You can look at a glass like the ones in the picture and make it according to where the liquid fills said glass like the ones on the graph. This is a fun way of learning…[Read more]

I think the thing I found trickiest with thing about creating an ERD from a problem description was piecing together the idea that entities can have multiple relationships to other entities. Like for instance maybe one entity has multiple relationships with multiple other entities, which has multiple relationships with even more entities. In our…[Read more]

Something that I like to splurge on is make up; so when I started spending more money on it, I decided to become a member at Ulta. By doing this, I got a membership card that I would get scanned every time I made a purchase and it would track what I would buy and accumulate points. This would in turn then give me personalized coupons. Once I…[Read more]