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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 12, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
I think, more than anything, I just enjoyed the speakers excitement about data. I could tell that the two gentleman really enjoy what they do and it’s given me a slightly different perspective about a topic that can, at times, seem dry.
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 9, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
So, if I were in charge of data.gov I would take some pretty innovative measures in order to encourage folks to make better use of the data available. I would ensure to hold an annual national data analytics competition and offer monetary compensation. Furthermore, I would have tiered contests for different age groups and have challenges targeted…[Read more]
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Week 8 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
The objective of a process is to collect data and analyze that data to improve the process. The better we are at improving the usability of data, the better our processes will become.
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Week 7 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
As a former sales representative for Verizon Business, I had a ton of exposure to a variety of different measurement criteria. Most of these variables I would consider to be SMART variables, so I’ll discuss the most basic: Monthly Sales Quota
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 6, on the site 10 years ago
The WSJ, in wake of the recent world cup, used this opportunity to compare countries in a bracket style challenge on “Everything Else”. The countries are grouped exactly as they were during the Brazil World Cup and you can choose different attributes to see which country, amongst WC competitors, would “win” said category. I find it to be a really…[Read more]
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 10 years ago
One situation where you would need to join tables to retrieve information would be if you wanted to match up students with teachers based on class. If you simply joined table students and teachers together, the teachers would be related to different pairings of students based on class.
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 10 years ago
I would classify an ERD as a form of Information in that, it takes data points (entities/attributes) and organizes them as they relate to one another (relationships). An ERD stops just short of knowledge because an ERD is simply architecture. In order to take the next step to knowledge, the ERD needs to be put to use and insights drawn from its…[Read more]
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Robert M. Dettore commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
As Brett mentioned above, this type of customization is wonderful operationally. What it does above all, is it utilizes the customers time most efficiently. The last thing a customer wants is to wait an excessive […]
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Robert M. Dettore wrote a new post on the site Robert M. Dettore 10 years, 6 months ago
Tesla is a company I’ve been following since inception.
There has been an ongoing battle between Tesla and franchised car-dealerships as Tesla would prefer to sell electric cars direct from the […]
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Robert M. Dettore wrote a new post on the site Robert M. Dettore 10 years, 6 months ago
This E-Portfolio was born out of a project assignment for MIS5001 called “Learn IT: Digital Identity”.
I figured it might be useful to post an outline of the requirements for this project so that we can all […]