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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 12, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
1.The most important take-away from the speaker’s presentation during last class was: as important as what you are saying is how you are saying it. Good insights will only become obvious if appropriate visualizations are employed. The keyword in that sentence is “appropriate”, given that different visualization tools will yield different insights,…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 10, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
Q: What is the average stay duration for people aged 29 years old?
Answer: 29 year old stay on average 16.08 minutes, where male patients spend on average 14.4 minutes and female patients spend 17.01 minutes.
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 9, on the site 9 years, 11 months ago
If I were in charge of data.gov, I would initiate an analytics challenge where people are invited to make a case on how to improve governance with regards to delicate issues in their municipality or state. These cases would then be posted in a separate website, and other members of the community can vote on them. The cases would need to rely on…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Week 8 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
Q2: Based on our discussion of Intermountain Health Care, how would you explain to someone the relationship between process and data?
In the case of Intemountain Health care, the main process under consideration is that of giving the highest quality care to patients. That said, physicians have traditionally used their own experience and…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Week 7 weekly question, on the site 10 years ago
This summer, I launched my second album as a singer-songwriter under the domain name http://www.shpatdeda.com as a free download. I had a goal for the desired number of downloads that I set myself, and I used Facebook Ads to drive traffic to the website. That said, the main performance indicator I was measuring after the launch was the number of…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Weekly Question: Week 6, on the site 10 years ago
http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/10/productive.jpg
This infographic displays a great array of information in a clear and easy to follow manner. The goal of the infographic is to give instructions on how to be productive in a number of areas such as tech, mind, body, schedule, food, etc. Every area…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 10 years ago
Question: Describe a situation where you’d need to use a join to retrieve information from a set of tables?
An example of a situation requiring a join of two tables would be trying to figure out what the length of the rental is for each customer who has rented a car in a car rental company database. In this case, we would have to join the ‘…[Read more]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Discussion Question: Changing Business Models, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
I believe that one phenomenon that is going to shape the future of industries and business models is the evolving relationships between people, products and platforms. The open source movement is gaining momentum, […]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Discussion Question: Disruptive Power of Collaboration, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
Listening to Clay talk about the role of technology in fostering global human collaboration reminded me how the power of this concept was used by scientists to come up with breakthroughs in cancer research. “Play […]
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Shpat Deda commented on the post, Discussion Question: Panera bets big on IT, on the site 2014 Spring – IT Management 10 years, 6 months ago
I agree with everyone here about the potential of this idea, and I think that there is much more going on here than consumer satisfaction due to shorter waiting times. As some of you pointed out, the potential of […]