Essays on Data Mining

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In an organization, employment test is an identical sequence of queries to evaluate employee’s knowledge, expertise, aptitudes, or other individualities. Using supervisory evaluations as a criterion to evaluate tests can have its own repercussions. Validating tests tend to emphasize abstract thinking skills, decision-making ability, with evaluation of good and bad decisions or personality profiles . I believe there can be bias results in employee evaluations depending on selection rate of a demographic group, such as, whites vs. 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

In the cyber age, the storage and retrieval of useful information is central to any organization, whether profit-oriented or nonprofit. Company processors store large volumes of raw data that need processing and classifying. Only useful data is worth retrieving. There is no better way to extract useful information from databases than by applying data mining that leaves unnecessary data untouched. The competitiveness of business environment necessitates the application of the most updates information retrieval techniques. Data mining may prove useful in market segmentation, fraud detection, customer churn, direct marketing, market basket analysis, interactive marketing, and trend analysis. The project Continue reading...

Internet Use Affected Privacy

Internet use refers to World Wide Web users, internet service providers (ISPs), and third parties (online social networking websites) who access, collect, store, utilize, and secure data/information . Whenever an individual or entity goes online, internet use starts. Internet use also means the intentional (or even unintentional) sharing and distribution of information that can lead to unintended consequences. For instance, in the event a cracker/hacker breaks into your computer to change, steal, destroy, or infect your data/information, your privacy is at risk. Your important personal data such as credit card details, exact physical address, and other private information can be Continue reading...

Data Mining

Industry Evaluation

Some of the major players in the industry are search engines like Google and Yahoo, which have the capabilities of gathering data about the people who surf the Web and of providing various levels of detail for the specific information that users search for (Story, 2008).

IBM and Oracle are also two of the other major companies in the data mining industry. IBM provides a wide range of analytic and data warehousing solutions that enable the best approach for every organizational situation – from traditional multi-dimensional data mining capabilities to mashups and industry models (IBM, n.d.). Oracle, on Continue reading...

Introduction

Getting an edgy and upper hand is essential for an organization as far as their core productivity and efficiency is concerned (Bagchi and Atluri, 2006). Those organizations which are able to compete with other organizations have to cover numerous aspects accordingly, and all of the aspects would be essential for their economic and strategic growth (Banchs, 2010).
Data Warehousing has now emerged as important elements that lead to give financial and strategic effectiveness to an organization. Organizations which are striding in this ambit are using the Data Warehousing Techniques for their future effectiveness, and among those organizations which are Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction
The institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) defines testing as an activity carried out for evaluating products quality, and for enhancing it, by identifying defects and problems. The definition of testing may vary from one area of study to another. In whichever, area of study it is performed for purposes of verification and validation of the product in question. Some of the areas of study to be looked at comprises of model based testing, data mining and marketing tests, software testing, network testing, power aware testing, cloud testing and automatic generation of testing cases from unified Continue reading...

Data mining is the federal use of customized programs and technology to access private information amongst people in an attempt to enhance security. This is mostly done in populated and busy areas like airports and huge transport terminals.
In my opinion, data mining is unconstitutional. Despite the fact that most of the constitutional statutes are implicated in data mining, usage of data mining it breaches the fourth amendment of the same constitution. Besides the fact that the government must use every tactic to fight crime, I must do these strategies within the stipulated constitution. Data mining is non-selective and Continue reading...

Michael Morris writes an interesting article, “Mining Student Data Could Save Lives,” which is about that campuses must use the technology to find out who is going to cause problems like shootings on campus. His thesis is that “nearly all college and university campuses have developed threat-assessment teams, whereby key members of various campus groups come together regularly to share information and discuss troubling student behavior” and that data mining is this answer (Morris 2011).

The article’s target audience is anyone who is involved with or concerned about college education and safety. Most likely, this will be the Continue reading...

Customer Relationship Management or CRM refers to an information industry term pertaining to methodologies, software and other internet capabilities that usually aid an enterprise manage their relationship with their customers in a systematic manner. It also identified as a management philosophy relating to the company achievement of goal through the identification and satisfaction of customers whether it be linked to their unstated or stated wants and needs. Piskar & Faganel (2009) shared that a number of organizations are now turning to CRM softwares to aid them in managing their relationship with customers. In a similar statement Forbes Magazine (2013) also Continue reading...

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Introduction 3

About Amazon.com 3
E-Commerce Solution Key Elements of Amazon.com 4
Technology Infrastructure 4
Datawarehouse and DataMining 6
Datamining to operational efficiency and acheiving sales goals 6
Network Security Threats in E-Commerce Applications 7
Controlling Network Security Threats in E-Commerce Applications 8
Payment Gateway 9
Conclusion 9

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Introduction
E-Commerce is a present day business methodology addressing various needs of organizations. It enables consumers and merchants to reduce costs and simultaneously improving on the quality of products and services. It enables high-speed service and delivery. E-Commerce is enabled with Continue reading...

Abstract

Barnes and Noble has maintained its performance through effective strategies and policies that have sustained its revenue yield and profitability. However, recent prevailing economic turmoil has led to significant challenges in their performance mandate. As such, the organization has been facing three main problems: increased costs of publishing books, stagnation in profitability and reduced customer awareness. The various challenges facing the organization have posed a daunting avenue for successful operations and sustenance of viability or survivability within the organization. Thus, with an aim of handling the challenges evident, it is significant that the organization incorporates three main solutions. The Continue reading...

Process: System Implementation and support

Health care practices based on evidence are currently readily available for a number of health care issues like heart failures, asthma, and diabetes. Unfortunately, these practices do not always get implemented in healthcare delivery, and related practices bounded by the same (Houser & Oman, 2011). Formerly, the main focus of any research dealing with healthcare was to enhance analysis of data in order to identify safety concerns of the patient and to show likelihood of arriving at advanced quality and patient safety.

There is much less attention given to practice implementation. It is important to note that by putting emphasis Continue reading...

Introduction

The operational environment requires plausible analysis of the internal and external factors that are bound to impede on organizational performance. Through an analysis of the aforesaid aspects, plausible strategies are bound to emerge towards profitable outcomes. Thus, this paper will evaluate Lincoln electric as per the case questions in its venture into India.

Part I: environment analysis

Environmental audit of an organization denotes the macro environmental evaluation of the various aspects that are not within the control of the organization. As such, there are various tools that are used towards analysis of the external environment that an organization can inculcate. Thus, a PEST 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...

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses

The differences between the structure of data warehouse optimized for processing versus relational database optimized for online transactions and summarizing large amounts of data include the following. Data warehouses use partially denormalized schemas so as to optimize performance, but relational databases have fully normalized schemas used to insert, update and guaranteeing data consistency. Data warehouse is updated regularly using techniques like bulk data modification, but relational database is modified by the end user. It is always up-to date and so it reflects the current state of every transaction. A data warehouse query scans millions of rows, for example, finding Continue reading...

Introduction

The western civilization has been fueled by the technological inventions that have flooded commodities in the market since mid-18th century. The Technological vibrancy of the west has been influenced by laws that seek to protect the intellectual property rights of the inventors and scientists. The British Statute of Anne 1710 was the first recorded copyright law in the world; it gave exclusive ownership rights to printers of books. The law prohibited the copying of books by other printers. With the development of modern technology the scope has been extended to motion pictures, maps and sound recording. Copyright laws have 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...

Mining Techniques

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION
Because electronic health record systems facilitate physicians in creating reports about medical examinations since birth, the medical history size of patients increases. However, not all content of a patient’s medical history is crucial information for medical users to find out. Furthermore, every single patient report needs to be read in order to validate that a patient is fine with medications or any medical procedures. This process might require aperiod of time to clarify whether the medical user can give special medications or conduct a procedure during an emergency. To reduce time Continue reading...

Clinical Information Systems

Inputs, Throughputs, and Outputs of the Clinical Information System in Use

When used for the administration of health services, the inputs of a clinical information system include information such as the patient’s name; contact information; clinic facilities, supplies and equipment; patient bills; and others. When used in clinical care, the inputs of a clinical information system include the patient’s vital signs, their medical history, observations regarding the patient’s condition, the diagnosis, and the treatment (Mishra et al., 2006). The throughput includes coding and decoding processes that transform data into a standardized or encrypted format (Mishra et Continue reading...

In today’s information age, more and more details about people’s personal and professional lives are available than ever before. To that end, many people have concerns about how that might affect their lives and futures; how much do we want others to know about us? In Erin Moriarty’s “Did the Internet Kill Privacy?”, the journalist discusses the dangers and pitfalls of having personal information about yourself online, and how it affects one’s academic and work lives. Meanwhile, Rhonda Savage’s “Facebook: Fired Up or Just Fired?” takes a more even-handed approach to the Internet, showing Continue reading...

Issue in Information System Operation Management (ISOM) Database security

Introduction
Increase in the use of internet has increased the vulnerabilities of databases for many corporations. Many organizations operate and maintain their brands through ensuring that databases containing client information is well protected. According to Bertino and Sandhu (1), the proliferation of web-based applications increases the risk of exposure of databases. Database security has been a challenge since the beginning of use of databases in the 1970s.
Every effort to improve technological advancement has led to an increase in the attacks on databases. Recent cases have been reported of hackers accessing private information from different databases of different organizations. Continue reading...

Business Intelligence and enterprise data mining management

A data warehouse is a kind of database designed to enable business intelligence solutions. Data warehouses are used to understand and enhance a performance. The warehouse is designed to query and analyze instead of merely conducting transaction processing. Historical data may be derived from transaction data but can include data from other locations. Data warehouse separates analysis workload from transaction workload, giving the organization the ability to maintain historical records and analyze the data to gain better understanding of the business and improve its practices. The environment in a data warehouse includes extraction, transportation, transformation and loading – referred as Continue reading...

PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 allows for roving wiretaps similar to the ECPA, effectively enabling spies to intercept a suspect’s electronic and wire communications associated to suspect conduct under the PATRIOT Act 2000, regardless of their location. This helps track suspects who move from phone booth, handset or computer to computer multiple times in order to foil tacking efforts. Roving wiretapping necessitates interception of email communications (without naming the communications carrier and other third parties involved in the tap). Section 209 allows stored voice mail to be treated as data as defined under section 2703 as against Continue reading...

Abstract

The current trends of technology have made companies invest much to the use of information and communication technologies. Information technologies have enhanced business processes and improved automation processes. Web search is becoming an area of concern in the development of computer technologies. With the increased development of websites, searching through this large collection of websites is becoming tedious. Various technologies have been developed in the past to solve this issue. The previous technologies of search engine optimization and search improvements have only helped individual enterprises. Semantic Web is a technology that is being researched and developed to enhance the Continue reading...

- Why would a customer database be so useful for the companies described in this case? What would happen if these companies had not kept their customer data in databases?
Each of the companies described in the case study has employed the huge amounts of data contained in their databases and the power of modern software to increase their customer base and profit margin. It would have been impossible to reach any meaningful conclusions about customer preferences without the historical data already collected by each of these companies.
Forbes used the SAP business objects software to analyze its data and Continue reading...

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Health care provision is a significant concern in the United States; the signing of health laws by president Obama in 2010 supports this. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act make health care a public concern (Shi & Singh, 2012). The citizen funds in taxes flow into the implementation of various policies and improvement of the quality of; care, medication, and equipment. This occurs in a bid to improve the quality of life; it reduces mortality rates. It also reduces other challenges associated with poor health. With the onset of technology, evident changes occur in the health care system. Patient Continue reading...

Introduction

The decision tree method is a way that can be used in getting help to make good decision choices, particularly for those decisions which are associated with high risks and costs. This method uses a graphical approach in order to compare various alternatives by assigning specific values to each of the alternatives while considering the uncertainties, payoffs and costs as numerical values. This method is of great help to business analysts, project managers and any level of project decision maker. This method is helpful in a variety of field including but not limited to artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis, game Continue reading...

Executive summary

With better tools to manage performance, there is bound to have increased time for performance management and also more success in sales. With customers looking for more answers to their problems, there has been a need to have integrated approach towards management and control of sales. Customers are no longer interested in sales alone but in complete advice on the product and how they are getting the value from the product which they are adopting. The process management is an important component in any organization as it helps to increase productivity and increase sales. Business redesign helps to have Continue reading...

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

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Gartner is a company that provides business intelligence to any IT company in any field. With the knowledge that Business Intelligence is getting the right information to the right people at the right time through the right channel, Gartner delivers the knowledge quickly in order to make the right decisions swiftly (Rud, 2009).
Gartner uses various research methodologies through their many years of observing business trends, which include Hype Cycles, Vendor Ratings, Magic Quadrants, Market Forecasts, Market Scopes, and Market Share Analysis.
This paper discusses the Magic Quadrant, which is one of Gartner's best tools, as it provides Continue reading...

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Introduction

This application database named 'Budget Car Rental' is being maintained by an imaginary company to process car rentals for customers. It is a small business based in Melbourne. They mainly rent out Luxury Cars and 4X4, sport, supercars. The database consists of tables for customers, cars, and order processing. Customers need to be a member to be able to rent cars from Budget car Rental Service. In order to service the demands of customers and to run the business smoothly, the company needs to know how many Continue reading...

Business Intelligence and enterprise data mining management

Business intelligence is one of the techniques of analyzing business process data in the enterprise and mainly comprises the practice of capturing and assessing various aspects of customers, competitors and the enterprise as a whole. BI is used in gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to intelligent information used to derive trends, patterns of business and decision-making processes. Enterprises can make more accurate information concerning tactical and strategic plans such as determining supply chain or competing in a specific market.
This paper concerns an implementation plan for building up BI and EMD capabilities in Woolworth. The paper will discuss Continue reading...

Stuart Hall’s essay on decoding and encoding is founded on interrelationship of four central pillars (production, circulation, use and reproduction) that set it aside from traditional theories of communication that conceptualize the communication process in the form of a loop or circulation circuit (Hall 91). Hall considers each of the central pillars distinct from each other, as well as both intricate and powerful enough to define one another. Effectively, each of the four elements is separate from the next, but they all form a part of a system is the communication process, which should ensure that meaning is Continue reading...

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Introduction

Data visualization is one of the categories of descriptive statistics. It involves the presentation of data in a graphical or pictorial form. When data is collected, analyzed and interpreted, the users rely on data visualization software to enable them to see statistical/analytical results and reports presented visually. This enables them to take informed decisions, communicate information and forecast results. Judging on the human brain capacity to process and store information, it is easier for them to read, understand and evaluate graphical representation of data rather than spreadsheets. . This paper focuses on data visualization strategies and how to Continue reading...

Question 1 Describe a 'future state' that improves upon their architecture.

The current state of the organization is where there are proper organization and integration of information systems. There organization has key components of the enterprise architecture include; the point-of-sale system (POS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management system (HRMS) and warehouse management system (WMS) (Spewak, & Hill, 1993). Having investment in that entire information technology infrastructure is key to development of the organization. The BJs are focusing on the future state where there will be high demand for technological services. The organization has a lot of online shopping stores with a lot of members who access the system. There Continue reading...

Final project plan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Information technology is an important aspect of business processes. There is a need to have information technologies put in place to ensure that the business processes that are included in the company. For these information systems to be integrated in the company there is a need to have the infrastructure of the company and the processes aligned and prepared for effective service delivery. There is a need to have infrastructure in place to make sure that the capacity of the new systems is supported. The information systems are required to ensure that the data flow and flow Continue reading...

Identify Business Objective

Being in the competitive beverage industry, Jones Soda Company has focused on creating a farfetched brand that has an emotional connectedness with the customers in impressing and positive way. The company also aims to be a significant part of the carbonated soft drink and premium soda categories of the beverage industry. However, since the main aim of the business is to increase profitability, Jones Soda Company has targeted to increase revenue through increasing sales with 20%. The company also aims in developing stable channels distribution and advertisement communication with an objective to maintain its current consumers and increase its Continue reading...

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SRA strategy for to focus its efforts on federal government departments and agencies within the national security market
SRA International was established in 1976 though as Systems Research and Applications Corporation. Two years later the company initiated its operations while in 1984 a parent company was enacted as SRA International Inc (SRA, 2009). The company had been help publicly since 2004. The company has been successful in its operations where it has been exchanging stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. The headquarters are located in Fairfax, Virginia with over 42 operational offices in fifteen states and the District Continue reading...

Star schema (simple)

“Star” schema is actually the simplest architecture within data warehousing. This architecture is termed as star because of the diagram that looks like a star. In the center of this diagram, there is a “fact” table that links to the “dimension” tables. Star schema is the most common data warehousing schema that is used. Oracle recommends it to be used. Star schema is a widely supported business intelligence tool. This architecture is very useful since you can create some useful queries and in addition it is very easy to do since not many tables need to be joined (Wang Continue reading...

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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