This web app serves as an automated ROI tracker that bridges the gap between historical market data and personal investment strategy. By integrating the CoinGecko API and TradingView analytics, it allows users to instantly calculate their cost basis from any past purchase date and visualize their portfolio’s performance against the US Dollar. It’s designed to transform blockchain data into actionable financial insights through a streamlined interface.
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Three Temple teams win big in national AIS Student Chapter Competition
Three Temple AIS student teams took home awards at the annual Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership competition in March. Even though the national conference was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the national competition was still hosted virtually.
Temple teams placed in the Scholastic Analytics Challenge, the Computational Society Case Study Challenge, and the Blockchain Hackathon Challenge, competing against Universities across the country including Florida International University, Utah State University, and the University of Michigan Dearborn.
Faculty advisor Steven Sclarow was pleased with the performance of the Temple chapter, “I am excited to see our students take home three awards this year, especially given this year’s unique challenges of competing virtually. However, our students were more than up to the challenge!””
The winning Temple teams are:
- First Place, Scholastic Analytics Challenge (Graphics)
- Madison Collins ‘21, Sofia Spadotto ‘21 (pictured)
- Second Place, Computational Society Case Study Challenge
- Kathleen Mecca ‘20, James Heathershaw ‘20, Anisa Ara ‘20
- Third Place, Blockchain Hackathon Challenge
- Daniel Moy ‘21, Samprateek Sinha ‘21, Jacob Pomeroy ‘21
Congratulations to all the winners!
Temple MIS Hosts 10th Annual AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference
On April 11-13, Temple MIS hosted the 10th Annual Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference. Over 180 students and faculty attendees from 33 schools participated in the conference. AIS student chapter leaders and members convened in Philadelphia to exchange best practices, network with students from other chapters and engage with industry experts on cutting-edge topics. Chapter members also competed in four competition tracks in topics such as analytics, AI and blockchain.
Temple was the founding University for AIS student chapters,” says Jeremy Shafer, Temple AIS student chapter adviser. “The first conference was held at Temple in 2010, and we were excited to bring it back to Temple for the 10th anniversary.”
The conference had a full agenda, with nine workshops and panels organized and led by students in topics such as chapter leadership, women in IT, location analytics and ethical hacking. Industry leaders from AmerisourceBergen, NBCUniversal, Alexion and Capgemini spoke to the student and faculty attendees about cutting-edge information technology topics. The conference also featured two keynotes: George Llado, chief information officer and senior vice president of Alexion, and Douglas Robinson, vice president of AmerisourceBergen.
“Bringing the conference back to Temple allowed us to show what we’ve accomplished as a chapter at a national level,” says Justin Kish, MIS ’19, Temple AIS chapter president. Temple AIS Officers Vice President Cara Evans, MIS ’19, and Director of Professional Development Ami Parekh, MIS ’19, coordinated a team of over 50 student volunteers, who greeted and guided attendees around campus.
The members of Temple AIS truly showed their dedication to the organization,” says Parekh, “The enthusiasm of our student volunteers made the conference a memorable experience for everyone.”
Matthew Nelson, executive director of AIS and Matti Rossi, past president of AIS, attended the conference. Nelson was impressed with the quality of the conference. “The quality of the competitions, the professionalism of the students and the enthusiasm and networking between students and universities is at the heart of AIS’ mission.”
“The 10th AIS Student Leadership conference demonstrated once again the liveliness of our student chapters and the health of the information systems field. AIS is very grateful for the support of Temple and the Fox School of Business and Department of Management Information Systems for organizing this year’s event,” says Rossi.
Extra Credit Assignment
Blockchain Could Solve Data Quality Issues
In response to the spiked-interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain was created to record cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain is an innovative technology that utilizes Peer to Peer (P2P), a vast network of computers operating a decentralized server to actively store cryptocurrency transactions into a secure and unalterable state. The process of blockchain goes as follows: a transaction is requested; a P2P receives the transaction; the P2P authenticates the transaction; a block of data is built up of authenticated transactions; and then the block of data is permanently joined with other blocks of data, forming a blockchain (Buterin et al.).
Additionally, blockchain has been found to be useful in storing, not just cryptocurrency-related transactions, but almost all transaction types (Sarikaya). What makes blockchain unique is its use of a decentralized system. In most cases, data is centrally stored which makes targeting easier for cyber attackers (Sarikaya). However, blockchain utilizes a system where all the data is stored within a decentralized network of nodes, ensuring the integrity of the data (Sarikaya).
Comparatively, both blockchain and data analytics manipulate data using algorithms, yet both methods have different objectives with the data (Sarikaya). Data analytics focuses on interpreting and drawing predictions from data, whereas blockchain is used to validate and store data (Sarikaya). The Extract Transform Load (ETL) process, a subject covered in the MIS2502 course, focuses on the data extraction step of preparing data for analyzing. One of the biggest challenges associated with ETL is maintaining data quality. Data analysts struggle to sustain data quality because of errors in the data, missing data, or redundancies in the data.
Also, the course reveals that the primary method data scientists use to maintain data quality is to verify the data through sampling manually. Blockchain could be an important tool for ETL as it can sustain and restore data integrity through its data verification process. Primarily, the data is stored and verified by a vast network of authorized nodes (Sarikaya) which eliminates the necessity to verify the data manually. Blockchain could effectively restore data quality and securely store validated data, resulting in a significant increase in data analysis efficiency.
References
Buterin, D., Rosic, A., Martynov, V., Baksht, S., Ravaei, N., Wu, J., & Mitra, R. (n.d.). What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners. Retrieved from https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology
Sarikaya, S. (2019, January 05). How Blockchain Will Disrupt Data Science: 5 Blockchain Use Cases in Big Data. Retrieved from https://towardsdatascience.com/how-blockchain-will-disrupt-data-science-5-blockchain-use-cases-in-big-data-e2e254e3e0ab
Chair’s Message – May 2018
As the academic year draws to a close, we have much to celebrate. I am proud of our excellent students and their big win at this year’s AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference. A record five teams won for their entries in analytics, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Also, congratulations to Professor Jeremy Shafer, who won AIS Chapter Adviser of the Year.
Our signature event with the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT), the Eighteenth Annual Fox IT Awards, was a great success. The honorees were technology innovators and leaders John Turner of 3M, James Rhee of Ashley Stewart, and Dave Kotch of FMC Corporation.
IBIT also hosted the third annual National Cyber Analyst Challenge, with 10 teams competing for $25,000 in prizes.
I am also proud of our graduates. Read about recent grads Emily Schucker and Frank Tkachenko, who are using what they’ve learned while in the MIS program to start their careers. We also catch up with two experienced alumni – Michael Luckenbill and Joshua Sandoe – as they find themselves well prepared to take on new career challenges.
With regard to research, read about the launch of our MIS Visiting Scholars Series, which brings leading academics to Temple for a week-long residency. Also learn how Professor Jing Gong studies the impact of information technology on consumer behavior and finds the unexpected.
Temple AIS students win big in national competition
Five Temple University undergraduate teams were winners in contests judged during the Association for Information System’s Student Chapter Leadership Conference in Dallas in April.
The contests pitted Temple against schools in the U.S. and abroad, including the universities of Alabama, Georgia, Michigan and Colorado; Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan University and the University of Gdansk in Poland. Temple is hosting the 2019 conference.
Faculty advisor Jeremy Shafer said he knew the students were “world class” but he was overwhelmed by their performances, “We ended up sending the six teams that made it through first round to the finals, a big achievement.”
Shafer won, too, recognized with the AIS Advisor of the year award, a new honor.
“I was really stunned, humbled,” Shafer said.
Find details about the winning projects below.
The Computational Society Case Study Challenge
First Place — Cara Evans, Rebecca Jackson, Zoe Weiner
Evans ’19, Jackson ’19 and Weiner ’18 explored how new technologies — specifically smart phones, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and “smart mirrors” – can help physical stores out sell Internet options. They found many retailers invested in one technology at a time but concluded offering multiple technologies simultaneously would be better.
“To survive, the physical stores have to offer something online can’t,” Jackson said. “Together (these technologies) create great customer experiences.”
Third Place — Andrea Behler, Erin Ebling, Michelle Pangestu
Behler ’19, Ebling ’20 and Pangestu ’20 explored how technology could affect well-being.
The team concluded that new programs using virtual reality and artificial intelligence could allow athletes to train without fear of injuries and could monitor vital signs to construct tailor-made work-outs. They found that video games like Pokemon Go! encouraged people to be more active.
“You have gamers who become more athletic and athletes who turn into gamers,” Behler said. “Each are realizing true health benefits.”
NBCUniversal Analytics Challenge
First Place — Chi Pham, Ngoc (Nathan) Pham, Run Zhu
Chi Pham ’19, Ngoc Pham ’19 and Zhu ’18 focused on QVC’s existing warehouses to determine why customers complained about deliveries. Data showed that a majority were unhappy waiting more than one week for goods. They found 97 percent of products shipped from four Northeastern warehouses to customers nationwide.
“We focused on the story,” Ngoc Pham said. “The judges liked that the flow was easy to follow and there were specific recommendations that could be applied within one to three months.”
Second Place — Quyen Le, Tung Nguyen, Cong Ngo
Le ‘20, Nguyen ’20 and Ngo ’20 approached the QVC data with the question: Does delivery speed matter?
They calculated delivery times for loyal shoppers who purchased things more than once and one-time shoppers in eight different product categories. They concluded that customer retention would increase by 27 percent if the company improved delivery times. QVC could do that by changing its warehouse system.
“Our strategies optimized distribution of work to ship the right products to the right people at the right time,” Le said.
Emerging Technology Development Challenges
Third Place — Albert Semin, Christopher Sidorchuck, Graham Geiger, Mason Elliott
Blockchain technology is new and oft-challenging to comprehend. That’s one reason Semin ‘19, Sidorchuck ‘19, Geiger ‘20 and Elliott ‘20 decided to accept the challenge.
The team put together a network that, while mostly theoretical, “could absolutely work 100 percent,” said Sidorchuck said. It created a transparent supply chain that allowed decisions to be made in real time, keeping all participants in a project accountable while also maintaining privacy needs.
“Some people say (blockchain technology) is going to be as big as the Internet or close,” said Sidorchuck, “I don’t know about that, but it’s going to be pretty important in the next 10 or 20 years. “
