Essays on Big Data

Governance of big data:

Governance of big data is an important in the organization due to the challenges associated with voluminous data. The executives are faced with very huge chunks of data relating to the sales and revenues. The large amounts of data relating to the revenues of the organizations are managed through information systems. The big data is managed through the knowledge work systems of the organizations. All the data of the organization is input into the knowledge work management systems of the organization. These knowledge information stems helps in the organization and analysis of such data so as to facilitate efficient Continue reading...

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Big data refers to enormous volume of both organized and free data that is challenging to process by means of the normal database and software procedures. Big Data allows the organizations to take appropriate decisions, and precisely access performance, as Big Data can provide concealed data that is beneficial for the company. Big Data is used in many sectors such as automobile, social networking, retail business, and so on. One such sector is Chemical industry that has Continue reading...

Extreme input and output techniques refer to techniques of managing and controlling inputs and output scales in data processing and other processing units. This regards implementation of parallel applications that help reduce risks involved with events tracing on extreme scale inputs and outputs (Smallwood, 2005). To manage inputs and outputs it’s rational to define means of capturing large volumes of data, processing of the data and creating innovative outputs.
Capturing detailed information otherwise called – big data is an arising requirement due to expansion in productivity growth, research, consumer surplus and innovation. There are various sectors which are key Continue reading...

Big data is defined as a data group that is so large that it causes problems of searching, collection, storage, analysis, and sharing of the data. Big data has four main characteristics. They are; volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. First, volume is the amount of data that is to be analyzed. Variety is the structure that the data in question has. Velocity is the amount of time taken to process the data from the time it is collected to the time it is being streamed. Veracity is the amount of quality of the data that is being analyzed, finding Continue reading...

Personal Privacy and Technology

The definition of privacy is an individual's condition of life. The technology we have today is slowly dissipating the privacy we have. People don't realize the risks they have with their privacy when they do things on the internet. They don't know how other people are invading privacy without them even knowing. Where is the line that separates privacy from security? This is an unstable controversy that has been going on since technology has existed. It is extremely easy to find information on anyone in the world with the technology we have, but how much information, and what people Continue reading...

The Big Question:

Is it possible to analyze the social media and identify the sentiment for any new or existing product or service like phone, tablet or even a movie?

The Motivation

There are a lot of review sites for each new product or even existing products. Many times reading the content of the review; it becomes evident that the content is paid and targeted to promote the product instead of giving a realistic picture. If we can analyze twitter content or other social content sites life FaceBook, YouTube or Linkedin, it will be fun but also valuable. This idea is a motivation enough Continue reading...

Describe the kinds of “big data” collected by the organizations described in this case.

The organizations described in Big data big rewards collect different kinds of big data. The British library collects data about the billions of searches performed by their website visitors. The library also preserves historically significant sites that no longer exist, for example, websites of past politicians. State and federal law enforcement agencies collect big data on all crimes and information about criminals such as suspect’s photos and their past offenses. They also have data on criminal organizations, illegal activities, and crime complaints. Vestas collects big data about the weather and the location they want to set up turbines. Continue reading...

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Abstract
Visual analytics is described as the science of analytical reasoning by collaborative visual interfaces. In the current world, data is processed in an incredible rate. However, the ability to collect data and store it is becoming a major challenge than the ability to analyze it.
Keywords: Visual analytics, data, interview, and Digital
i. Introduction
In my point of view, data is becoming one of the major challenges in nearly all organizations. Organizations such as healthcare are collecting unprecedented scale of data. This approach has influenced questions in the organization on how the big data challenges are controlled. For Continue reading...

Management Information System

- According to Mark Hurd, why does his typical customer's IT budget increase by two to three percent per year (even when his typical customer does not do any innovation)? (5 points)
There are tons of changes the application undergoes in its structure. The companies are trying to update the old applications to be used with today’s gadgets and cloud as the users today are not limited to, system based apps, but use a variety of products like tablets, smartphones and tabs. Clouds have become modern day’s database and means to communicate, circulate and publish information.
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Introduction

Many companies, organizations, and institutions depend on information for their managerial functions. Information is becoming a valuable resource that is derived from the processing of raw facts, figures, and raw data; the unprocessed information is known as data. As companies and organizations continue to grow and expand, the amount of data required to process the needed information also becomes voluminous, resulting to data deposits that have the probability of developing. The data deposits that have the profanity to grow up quickly have to be controlled. With the growth of big data in organizations for a long period, there has Continue reading...

BIG DATA and its value to Small Medium Enterprise SME’s Restaurants

Big data can be very difficult to work with and may require to be broken down into simpler parts, so that interpretation is easier. The main challenges that are experienced in managing big data management include; storage, captures, curation, sharing, searching, visualization, analysis and transfer (Zikopoulos 2012). Large data sets emerge from derived additional information that results from the analysis of single and large set that is linked to the data. Therefore, big data is a situation whereby data sets collected are complex and voluminous to an extent that management through the use processing tools as on hand database Continue reading...

Abstract

The ever-increasing flow of information in organizations has posed challenges to business for years and this has led to the development of the phenomena of big data. Following the adoption of the term “big data”, velocity, volume, veracity, velocity, and variety are the five elements that scholars have used to describe big data. For years, companies such as insurance firms have correlated data sets using the five elements. This has helped limit confusion attributable to the collection, storage and dissemination of complex data. The correlation is necessary due to the difficulty in managing huge volumes of data sets.

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Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that enables distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers. Hadoop can handle a single server and it can handle multiple machines. This means that scalability is not a problem. It is open source software that is reliable scalable and allows distributed computing. It is being used across enterprises in the storage of big data analytics and it also enables top managers in making business decisions.

Background

There has been a great need by the organizations to store and manage large amount of data referred as Big Data. There is a Continue reading...

Management

Introduction
Technological breakthrough especially in social media has on one hand opened far greater information for collecting information and on the other has made it extremely complex for managers to screen and use the relevant data for marketing and advertisement activities. Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter have immense data and the challenge lies in screening the relevant data. The data available on these websites is far more comprehensive than the data garnered through CRM as it provides a rear view mirror of the consumer to the companies.
The data available in these social media sites can be Continue reading...

      This paper looks at what is ‘big data’ and the important of Budnet in business players. With the availability of information in plenty, there is a need to have ways in which data information can be discovered. People are trying hard to get new knowledge from the information and the data they get access to. This is the new trend that is being seen with the use of enormous data sources.

What big data is

Big data is the collection of the organization data over a long period of time. This data is collected from different sources over time and stored in a Continue reading...

(1) With the stern competition among companies today, success relies on gaining business competitive advantages. This is the main objective of big data and data analytics. Though both seeks to utilize data in gaining edge over the other three characteristics differentiates big data from data analytics and these are volume, velocity and variety. Big data is aware and gives importance to the fact that the volume of data gathered by companies from different sources is doubling every day, so being able to predict these data means providing mechanisms that are capable of processing this amount of data. Further, big Continue reading...

A Reflection

Arguably, marketing has taken another perspective due to the presence of internet, advancement of technology, and social media. The author’s primary message to the authors concerns the response that organization and those responsible in analyzing the changes in the marketplace should take. The information found on the internet should be interpreted and analyzed critically before implementing it in an organization. It is always crucial to assert that the consumer is always a rational individual, and organizations should know that the consumer has access to the information they are facing.
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Answer Question

Answer Question
Question 1

This means that the bought the device at:
($600- cost)/ $600 = 0.25
Cost = 450

The device was sold at $450 to McKenson.

Question 2
Retailer
Using markup formula 33% markup
($299-cost) /cost=0.33

Working out

Cost = $300

Distributor 25% margin

Using the margin formula
($300-cost)/ 300 = 0.25
300-cost = 300*0.25
Cost= 300-75
Cost = $225

Manufacturer

Using margin formula
($225- Cost)/ $225 = 0.5
Cost = 225-112.50
Cost = $112.5

Question 3

The Usefulness of Distributors
Distributors are very important in a supply chain. Finding the right distributor is always a plus to the supply chain system. The following are reason as to why the company must make keep the distributors.
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Compare and Contrast to Natural Language Processing

Computational linguistics is relatively new and fast developing science. In the future the results of the researchers’ work on it may bring changes to many aspects of life and economy, such as businesses, marketing, professional services, etc. Computational linguistics collaborates with many disciplines, such as Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, etc.
Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and linguistics dealing with the interactions between human (natural) languages and computers. NLP is related to the field of human-computer interaction. A lot of challenges in NLP involve understanding of natural language, Continue reading...

Final Report

Background of the Study
The research majors on immunization of newly born babies and children aged below 5 years in Canada, New Brunswick. Children below the age of 5 are prone to infection by contagious diseases. Vaccines come in handy as a preventive measure that reduces the chances of infection for this vulnerable section of the population in Brunswick. However, the administration of the vaccines is only possible after the children’s parents given their consent. The primary objective of administering vaccines is to attain global health for children all over the world.
Vaccinations are secure and effective ways Continue reading...

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Introduction
Literature Review
According to Geopolymer Institute (2014), Joseph Davidovits discovered Geopolymer concrete. Joseph Davidovits is a French National born in 1935. Geopolymer concrete is as a result of a reaction of source materials. Constituents of source materials are alumina, silica, and alkaline liquid. Geopolymer has a 3-dimensional structure. They are manufactured using low amounts of temperature. The manufacture of Geopolymer involves mixing several products. These products are alkali metal hydroxide and aluminosilicate. Aluminosilicate acts as a binder. It is a constituent of aluminum and silicon.
Research shows that Continue reading...

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Reflection by
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Theory is the starting point:
In this part, the author addresses analysts who will quickly be overwhelmed by the amount of data available about customers’ preferences. Relatively, random data analytics will not lead to any improvement of certain services if it was not theory-based. Theory provides a clear strategic pathway to follow on data analytics in order to come out with new feasible trends that attract new customers, and work on improving certain provided services. However, to widen the circle of target customers, there should be a clear hypothesis to start with about customers’ needs Continue reading...

Introduction

Human resource management is undergoing a lot of improvements and enhancements. This is due to the fact that there are trends that have been enhanced with the capabilities that are set by the big data. This capability is enabled with the availability of information from the many interconnections that come with big data and data analytics. This paper will focus on how meshing of data will improve the availability of information in the human resource field to enhance the connectivity of the data (Rothwell, Prescott, & Taylor, 1998).

Improve workflow policies through meshing of data

Information flow is growing at a much faster rate with the use Continue reading...

Introduction

With data volumes, “big data” expected to go through unprecedented growth, CIO’s need to ensure that business value is maximized and companies gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. With Volvo as a corporation collecting large amounts of data, it needed to ensure that the data is converted into something resourceful, and that would improve the overall customer experience.

How Volvo Car Corporation integrated the cloud infrastructure into its networks

The ability to collect large amounts of data without impacting on the performance of an organization is invaluable. Many organizations are faced with this challenge when collecting and transferring large amounts of data. Volvo Corporation collects terabytes of data Continue reading...

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

Retail industry of UK is huge in size and contributes significant to the overall world GDP. Despite being huge retail section of UK is highly competitive and companies are constantly striving to provide improved product and services to their customers in order to gain greater market share. The retail industry has to combat the impact from the change drivers of segment itself as well as related segment. Moreover, other factors that have been posing impact include shift from brick retail section to clicks, change in lifestyle, demographics etc. (SAS, 2012).
There are many factors that have put impact on Continue reading...

Abstract

This discussion explains how through cloud computing, the process of data mining is facilitated. Through data mining, information that is potentially useful can be retrieved from raw data. People often face the need for targeted advertising, whereby data mining techniques give businesses greater efficiency, hence helping to lower costs. In the sector of cloud computing, data mining has become of great importance. The facilitation of data mining through cloud computing will enable users to obtain useful information viaa virtual warehouse of integrated data, helping to lower expenses of storage, technical staff, and purchase of infrastructure.
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Abstract
Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) are the most popular database systems today. The relational model of database management emerged from a dynamic database model called DataBase Management System (DBMS). Dbase and FoxPro were the popular DBMS in the 1970’s and 1980’s. RDBMS emerged in the 1990’s. Though RDBMS is a popular form of database management, few appreciate its true potential. Modern applications that allow multiple devices to access and manipulate data are overshadowing RDBMS. NoSQL models such as Hadoop and MapReduce allow document processing which is a feature that the relational model lacks. An in-depth understanding Continue reading...

Health Care Delivery in TRICARE (United Healthcare)

Introduction
TRICARE is a uniformed services health care program under the umbrella program of United Healthcare that is offered for active service duty members together with their families as well as retired service members with their dependents and members of the National Guard and Reserve with their families and other eligible survivors. The main objective of TRICARE is to deliver world-class health care services and benefits for all the Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries. It also aims at providing the highest level of satisfaction of its patients and bringing together all the networks of civilian health care services for Continue reading...

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Literature Review

Professionals and scholars in the field of marketing and management have since become fascinated with the idea of co-creation. Zwick et al. (2008, pp. 163-196) emphasized the importance of co-creation with regard to its political impact in the cultural, social and economic realms, taking into consideration the notion of Michel Foucault on the government and labor-and-value theories advocated by neo-Marxism. Contrary to the traditional perception of consumers as passive entities in any given market, co-creation brings to light their capabilities in terms of practicing their power to interact with firms on resource combination Continue reading...

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It is evident from the history of data breaches that there is an increase in the posting of sensitive information publicly on websites of federal, state and city governments. A number of other researches such as the existing research on privacy- preserving data publishing that center on relational data also shows the existence of this increase in information breach. Therefore, government agencies and commercial organizations responsible for reporting data are left with an important duty of representing the data in a significant manner. They also, simultaneously offer safety for the confidentiality of critical components of this data ( Continue reading...

The manager of Rent-A-Car requires an of an information system that is used for the management of the various cars on the lot. The purpose of this information system is to aid in the tracking and management of the cars in the company. This includes allocation; servicing, fuelling, repair and maintenance, rentals and car hire service. The cars owned by the company include the various models of Volvo allocated according to the specifications of the user.
The company offers cars to its employees in the higher echelons of power as well as those involved in projects that require extensive Continue reading...

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The IBM historical data is below:
The HP data is below:
We are using Open Prices for our calculations (look at MS Excel file). The further calculations are processed in Excel file and commented in Word file.
Then, we calculate the historical monthly returns of these stocks using the adjusted closing prices from yahoo using monthly return =(Pricemonth2 – Pricemonth1) / Pricemonth1. After which, find the average monthly return.
After this we are able to calculate the mean monthly return. Just finding the average value for both data sets.

The same we do for standard deviations.

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Executive summary

Sony has enacted marketing strategies through the development of effective strategic marketing plan. It is a detailed process that consists of analyzing environmental, market competitive and business factors affecting the firm and the strategic business units. This can be done by identifying market opportunities and threats and forecasting future trends in business areas of interest for the enterprise and anticipating in setting objectives and formulating corporate and business unit strategies. Ability to developing, maintaining and managing the marketing program positioning strategies in order to achieve the stipulated goals requires an effective and efficient team work. It separates and differentiates Continue reading...

Introduction

Information systems are by no means a source of competitive advantage. Many organizations are investing towards information systems to reap the benefits that are associated. Information systems have been known to enhance business processes and bring competitive advantage for many organizations. Many companies are using information as a basis for competitive advantage in their operations. This paper will focus on how information systems are used in Volvo Company, a car company. The company has made use of information systems to gain an edge over the competition. The systems and operations of CRM implement the company’s goals and objectives Continue reading...

Introduction

The two co-founders of Veja Kopp and Morillion though with no experience on business have made an impact on the fashion industry, (Kim, 2010). The duo identified the need to conduct business feasibility research and settled for a unique aspect within the fashion industry. Their discovery has attributed to their dominance and continues existence in the competitive fashion industry. Their unique fashion cloths portray a unique and astounding creativity. Propelled by the vast experiences they experienced on their business adventures the two settled for an environmental manufacturing plan. Their plan can be credited by the consequential increase in other Continue reading...

Volvo Car Corp captures numerous amounts of data from its vehicles and information systems. This data are transmitted to the clouds and then back to the manufacturer for analysis. Volvo believes that, in a world where smart technological innovations is the way to go, it is important to leverage the numerous amounts of data generated from its vehicles and convert them to usable analytics. The vehicles are fitted with numerous sensors and CPUs that capture data and use it within the vehicle itself after which it is transmitted via the clouds back to the manufacturer.
Clouds are undoubtedly the Continue reading...

With digital technology developing in leaps and bounds, modern day research has become increasingly data intensive. Constant innovation has become the need of the hour if one is to keep pace with day to day technological advanced. The field of analytics is no exception to this demand. In fact, with data and technology becoming inseparable, the role on analysts is continuously evolving. I consider attending the Master of Science in Analytics program at McCormick Nothwestern Engineering as the next phase in my evolution.
“Problems were not the actual ‘problem’, it is thinking of problems as problematic that is the Continue reading...

Hypothesis

The independent variables are maternal education and quality of parenting. The dependent variable is the scaffolding behaviors.

Subjects Studied

Participants were mothers/child pairs previously enrolled in a longitudinal study of families with children from 4-5 years old.
The enrollees were originally enrolled in 2002-2003 from southern England. Schools were asked to send letters home with children aged 4-6 years old with older siblings aged 8 or younger. Many schools were uncomfortable with sending letters home to specific students, so they sent letters home to all students. In the first part of the test 173 families participated, in the second phase of Continue reading...

- The Flexible Display Glass interests me the most. Besides being ultra-thin, roll able and electronics enabling, it is portable and looks like it is applicable to areas such as architecture and medicine. Flexible Display Glass would enable light, thin, and cost-effective applications including the present slim displays and the future smart surfaces.  The strength, flexibility and thinness of the glass material has the latent to allow displays to be wrapped over a structure or device (Corning Display Technologies | Corning Willow Glass, 2013). In architecture, it can be used instead of paper maps while in medicine it can be Continue reading...

Dissertation Methodology

RESEARCH STRATEGY

This study was created to 'evaluate the severity of the effects from natural gas flares in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It will utilize both a Quantitative Research model to evaluate the amounts of gas flared, the volume of contaminants released into the environment and the potential value of natural gas wasted. That will be followed by a Qualitative Analysis that uses numerical and statistical process to draw out and make generalizations based upon the information structure created from the Quantitative Research and the data sets provided by the various information sources. These information sources include, Continue reading...