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Working hard or hardly working?...still to come...

We've had a long meeting yesterday, came up with some interesting insights, and almost jumped out the window while working on the dimension tables...now it seems to have calmed a bit :) but you never know...the week is not over yet, not to mention assignment II due on weekend! Updates soon!

Book Recommendations

Big Data is a very new technology. Some aspects are not perfectly understood yet. If you want to get more insights how Big Data is influencing our lives today and what can go wrong by using it, I can recommend the book " Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy ". Very easy to read. In case you fell in love with data modeling, you may want to read one of the fundamental books of Data Warehousing " The Data Warehouse Toolkit ".

Track the right statistics!

When  Anne Milgram  became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, she quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system.

Porter's 4 Forces

Hello everyone in the Business Analytics community - We are Porters 4 Forces, because we don't  need the fifth, slowing us down. We are old, we are strong, we are here to win. Here is a short  introduction of our team members: Jay I am Jay Kim. I am married to a Thai. We got married after seeing each other for six years,  including 3 years long distance while I was in Abu Dhabi.  I have been working in the conservative construction industry for over 4 years, and yes, it is still relying on the traditional way of managing  projects.  I believe that big data and the Industrial Internet (IoT) can be applied to a traditional  industry like  construction to improve efficiency and minimize risks and unnecessary jobs.  Eventually this  could  save millions of dollars, which is the major reason that I joined SNU  MBA. Felix Hallo, my name is Felix. Feel free to talk to me about travel in Asia/Pacific, fußball (or as you ...

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