Youngjin Yoo

Look up ‘referential integrity’ on the internet. How does a foreign key in a table help maintain referential integrity?

Think for about 100 seconds what you learnt in class during week 1 and summarize your thought here.

Does a team need to assemble the best players to win a championship? Or can it ‘mathematically’ pick a set of average players to increase your probability of winning the game? Watch Moneyball to find the answer (<a […]

Refer to the in-class exercise from 9/1/2011 (click here for a copy). Here is a question to consider:

Is there any information which we’d like to have that we can’t get from Facebook alone? If so, how would we […]

This is election season, and quite a few of us are following the campaigns. Political campaigns are increasing using data analytics to make decisions on how reach out to voters, raise money, and mobilizing people […]

Refer to the in-class exercise for week 1 (click here for a copy).

Here is a question to think about: what is the value of data to online companies such as Facebook or LinkedIn?

List examples of how companies are using data to achieve a competitive advantage (give examples of specific companies and mention how they use data).

Hi All,

The MIS department has a policy on repeating a course. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with this policy, and contact Joe Allegra (Joseph.Allegra@temple.edu) if you have any questions.

A […]

Click here for a copy of the presentation slides. We will cover this in weeks 1 and 2.

In this lecture, we will provide an overview of database modeling, as well as construct an entity relationship diagram […]

Click here for a copy of the presentation slides. We will cover this in week 1.

In this lecture, we will discuss how data is organized within organizations, and also provide a map of how this course maps the […]

Click here for a copy of the presentation slides. We will cover this in week 1.

In this class, we’ll provide an introduction to use of data in organizations, and also discuss examples of companies using data to […]

Here are a few articles from the Economist highlighting the opportunities and challenges of data.

1. Data, data everywhere

2. The data deluge

3. Leveling the playing field

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Here are some tips to follow while posting on the course blog:

1.Participation mainly consists of writing a comment on a blog post (such as lecture materials, news articles, and questions)

2. […]

Hi All,
This is Sunil and I’ll be your instructor for MIS2502. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of you to the course, and hope that you enjoy your time in this class while learning about the […]

We will be working with SAS Enterprise Miner tool for the Data Analytics part. To do this, you need to create an account with SAS. The instructions are provided here (click here).

The registration is free but […]

Here are the slides for the first lecture on data.

Another slide on Information Architecture will also be discussed. please read the slides before class so you have a general idea of what we will be talking […]

Answer one of the following questions as a comment on this post.

What do you think is more important to an organization: data or information (don’t say “both” – choose one!!)? Explain why.
Give an example in […]

For the past couple of years, I’ve been consulting this company: http://www.freelancer.com, to help them use firm generated big data to refine their feedback systems.

Freelancer.com is one of the largest firm that […]

I’ve also been serving as an external consultant for http://www.ookong.com for their business strategies. It is an interesting website, maybe useful for your online shopping at Amazon.com!

Ookong provides users with a […]