Online Business Intelligence Fall 2020

 Module 1! Hi everyone! We’ve made it through another few weeks. In this blog post I have made remarks and analysis on every video lecture since the last module. I paid special attention to our latest lecture on data dashboards. I also included a link of my own research for every video lecture. I hope you all have a chance to read one of these articles and give me your own opinion and arguments. Let me know if you agree with the author.     Data Warehouse: Management decision making is some of the most critical and vital aspects of any company. Having easy access to high quality information about the process is vital to making those decisions. This lecture is mostly just terminology. I agree with the importance of creating a data warehouse and the process seems to be based around using existing well-designed databases. I can say however, at my work we use reporting tools & analytics all the time to make important discussions. We base the size of our server...

 This week was very interesting. From reading multiple 60+ page papers to submitting a two question quiz. Big data. It's certainly a buzz word in the modern age. Everyone and their dog is talking about, taking ownership of and requesting big data. But does it live up to the hype? Well this week's readings certainly seem to point towards that. Firstly, I wanted to abstract that I most recently took a class called Data Mining and I was blown away how easy it was to create a neural network in R that was achieving 90% accuracy rates for very complex problems. Technology, and more specifically software, is really catching up with some of these hard problems. It seems now-a-days we have an hunger for more and more data. We're pushing the boundary on what is and what isn't data privacy. Honestly at times, it's a bit gross. First let's review the lectures. 1. Blogging, facebook and linked-in oh my! This will certainly be an interesting class experience. I wonder how m...