How to Improve Your Critical-Thinking Skills and Make Better Business Decisions
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How to Improve Your Critical-Thinking Skills and Make Better Business Decisions
New Activities of the Federal Big Data Initiative.
Helping People Through the Decision-Making Process Using a Web-Based Application: View the tool, Ahoona.
The Accenture article to which the final referred.
The final exam.
Day Presentations
Night Presentations
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Pranav Mistry uses the SixthSense to reveal a paper laptop
Hans Rosling argues why the U.S. is not the most powerful nation in the world
Professor Drake's talk on The State of Marketing
How Pharmaceuticals Can Avoid the Side Effects of Social Media
How Data is Changing the Car Game for Ford
Data Science: The Numbers of our Lives
Looking at Facebook's Friend and Relationship Status Through Big Data; the Wolfram Report.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
Ms. Meyer's slides for her presentation are on MyGateway, day class presentation and night class presentation.
How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work
Mr. Boal's Big Data Presentation. You can also view the Data Warehousing 101 presentation from last year.
The McKinsey Reports to which Mr. Boal referred in his talk: 2013 article and 2011 article.
Is this a good form of data presentation?
Is Technology To Blame for College Basketball's Low Scores?
The Potential and the Risks of Data Science
Analytics gone wrong?
An interview with Edward Tufte
A quick crash course in design thinking
Advice for effective analytical reasoning
The Top 20 Data Visualization Tools
Did Nate Silver beat the Tortoise?
For those who doubted me, here is the Chicago River on St. Patrick's Day....
Day Class Presentations
Evening Class Presentations
IBM: Watson will eventually fit on a smartphone, diagnose illness
The order of presentations in the day class will be: Group A, Group C, Group E, Group D and Group B. The order of presentations for the night class will be: Group D, Group B, Group C, and Group A.
Another data mining example: Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds
Visualization: Future Science: Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
More analytics examples: Josh Noel's Tribune Travels
And Now, From I.B.M., Chef Watson
Happy Casmir Pulaski Day!
Considering Data's Effect on Society
Another ORMS and Analytics Video from the Operational Research Society and from INFORMS
Analytics Podcasts
Graduate Students: Approved paper topics.
Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus
'Big Data' is Dead. What's Next?
Nate Silver
We will have a speaker on March 18 from the Sam Fox School of Design who will talk about visualization
from a designer's perspective. She is Heather Corccoran, MFA, and you can learn more about her from her webpage. She
will only speak in the evening class.
Scott Decker's Information about Gangs
Night class(s) groups will be:
| Group A
Saipujitha Bandi | Group B
Benjamin Holtman | Group C
Geoffrey Hickman | Group D
Alden Buric |
Analytics and Data Mining in the News
Implications for BI? 'Privacy tax' creator makes his case, warns 'software is eating the world'
Computer humor from Microsoft....
Derek Clardy
Divya Boyana
Richard Dieckhaus
Jenny Brunnert
Teng Ma
Problems with automatic computer translations. See the closed captioning for Senator Rubio's speech.
The Fourth Ammendment to the US Constitution
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Day class(s) groups will be:
Group A
Maria Kattia Del Rio Tomita
Seungyoon Kim
Tamara Pokol
Group B
Nikolay Filipets
Ankit Patel
Melis Yilmaz
Group C
Lee Durrell
Scott Leemann
Brian Martin
Group D
Lamont Davis
Lucas Matecki
Ji Zhang
Group E
Shih-Hua Wang
Yao Zhang
Consider a Career in Operations Research and Analytics!
Big Data
Where will you find
your analytics talent?
Big Data, Analytics and Elections
ASSIGNMENT: Watch the three videos listed below. Write a paragraph on each one identifiying what you
learned about decision making and how it can apply to delivering business intelligence.
Decision Making
How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets
Executive Order 200.015 Academic Inquiry, Course Discussion and Privacy
Trends: The near future for business analytics.
You Might Be a Decision Analyst If ...
Analytics from SAS
Analytics Blogs
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