Essays on Data Mining

Abstract

The process of taking business decisions is taking a more scientific approach with the increasing use of information obtained from hidden patterns in data. Data mining entails the process of extracting useful patterns from large datasets to guide decision taking. The steps involved in the decision process include data selection, data cleaning, data mining and evaluation. Owing to the size of the dataset involved in the data mining process, algorithms that identify patterns have to be optimized. A number of tools to make the process of decision support with data mining easier have been developed as the trend increases. ...

Introduction

This paper aims to review a journal article entitled “Data Mining with Big Data” by Xindong Wu, Fellow, IEEE, Xingquan Zhu, Senior Member, IEEE, Gong-Qing Wu, and Wei Ding, Senior Member, IEEE, which was published on January 2014. Furthermore, the paper will be divided into various subsections to provide an organization of the points being reviewed.

Objectives and Domain

The objective of the article was to discuss the limitations of using the HACE theorem as a tool to model Big Data or large data sets. The importance of the proper use of Big Data through careful analysis in many fields including the ...

Business Intelligence

One of the companies that use data mining approaches is Wal-Mart; the company uses data mining techniques with a major purpose of understanding buying patterns among its targeted clients. In addition, American Express and AT&T are some of the companies that have implemented the use of data mining techniques; they also apply data mining techniques as a means of understanding how consumers behave, hence enhancing their capacities to implement promotional strategies.

Data that the System considers to make course recommendation

The system uses students’ profiles as well as transcripts in order to provide recommendations to the students on the most appropriate course they should select.

The Number of Courses Recommended to Students

The program provides ...

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Introduction

The company is considering another multinational company equal to its size for acquisition. The decision of the merging of the company with the other multinational brand has been taken by the company’s executive committee and shared with various stakeholders during the executive leadership meet. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) anticipates a project plan with regards to the Information Technology requirements within the next sixty days. The project plan must strategically integrate all the systems of the company with the multinational company. The merging systems must include ...

Business Analysis:

1. Explain to the client the type of data generated, collected and what it will be used for. The data generated by the system will include products that the customer may want to purchase based on their shopping history and interests. The data collected by the system will include previous purchases and other customer interests. The data will be used to provide the customer with recommendations in order to make their shopping experience easier.

2. Explain the expected outcomes (positive and negative).

The positive outcomes of the system will be that the customers shopping experience will ...

In spite of increasing trends in information technology globally, security has been a challenging issue for computer networks. Intrusion detection system has been the central topic of study for several researchers; studies particularly revolving around how IDS based on data mining methods are an effective strategy. The survey conducted in the paper “Intrusion Detection System with Data Mining Approach: A Review” is intended to clarify the various problem definitions associated with network intrusion detection and the specific obstacles seen in this field of research. The paper also deals with the varying assumptions and ...

Netflix is an American company, a supplier of films and TV series based on streaming media. Founded in 1997. The headquarters is located in Los Gatos, California. The firm has more than 40 million customers in 41 countries (2013)

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Netflix originally engaged to rent movies to a DVD-ROM, using the business model DVD by mail only in the US. This business model works as long as not "blow up" online video market. Therefore, Hastings (CEO) decided to invest heavily in streaming video.

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Unlike traditional providers of broadcasting and cable television, company Netflix offers its subscribers unlimited access to premium-rate content without ...

Section 1: Why I think that the following six topics are most important for SuperTraining IT

These topics either speak to issues that are directly relevant to SuperTraining Corporation’s core businesses (advertising, distance learning, internship/placement and tuition finance counseling). Effectively, issues and/or technologies that referred to these core business areas, concerning quality and security (e.g. network security), service delivery (e.g. audio and video streaming) have been chosen. I understand that all the topics in module 2 are necessarily relevant to SuperTraining Corporation, but I was interested in those topics that refer to, or can help create a unique ...

The article titled Data Mining and Clinical Decision Support System by Michael Hardin and David Chhieng provides an insight into a process of searching and converting data. First of all, authors define the notion of data mining in its broader terms. It is aimed at transforming the data into meaningful information and at searching for new patterns for the users. Pattern recognition is a part of the data mining. It was developed to look for analytical models, which would be able to classify data. Data mining is also related to the clinical decision support system. The progress in computing and medical ...

3A. Data mining involves extracting meaningful information from data. There is much misinformation about data mining. The data is important, and data mining is a larger process applied on that data. It is not necessary that data mining be accurate, but important is to derive patterns and hypothesis. In short data, mining can also be termed as an automated extraction process of information from big data sets. There are various data mining tools and algorithms that enable the extraction of information, though some level of statistical expertise is required to use those techniques. Some data mining techniques are decision ...

Data mining refers to the computational process useful for the discovery of large sets of data, which employs methods on knowledge for artificial intelligence, statistics analysis, machine learning and database systems. The data mining process aims at extracting information from a set of data to transform it into a clearly understandable form that is useful for further analysis. Apart from the raw analysis move, the process involves database and data management processes, data pre-processing, model and interface considerations, interestingness metrics, considerations for complexities, post processing for obtained structures, visualization, as well as online updating (Frand, 2013).

On the other hand, data ...

Sample: this helps to slim down the processing time by selection of a representative sample to get a crucial information. Some of the strategies include simple random and the stratification of samples that is a representation of the needed subgroups. It enables extraction of information that are critical. It obviates the problems of data validation, production of substandard results. This could be related to the program to determine the number of cases of individuals moved by the Ebola virus and hence the data should be the number of the great unwashed who are already with the virus.

Explore: one of the means ...

There a lot of connection between information technology and biblical concepts of wisdom and intelligence. The book of Proverbs talks about wisdom in almost all the passages. There are many passages where the concepts of wisdom that are presented in the bible relate with what is there in information and data mioniongng and the intelligence and information that come from it. This paper will analyze the concepts of how information technology and the biblical concepts of wisdom are related.

IT relation with biblical concepts

In proverbs 8:32-35, we are told that we should always seek for wisdom and we should always look at the doors ...

Web technologies

Data mining Data mining is the process of sorting through a collection of data for the purpose of identifying patterns and using the patterns to establish relationships. There is a lot of data processing to get valuable information that can affect the way the organization behaves in future.

Data warehouse

Data warehouse – is a central place where all-important parts of data that various information systems of an enterprise collect. BLOB BLOB (Binary Large Object) is a field of a database that holds any information, which is digitized including text, video, audio, images and video. It can have a large capacity of storage.

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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. blacks, ...

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 both ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. Key terms: Data ...

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 ...

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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 numbers ...

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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 ...

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 user ...

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 the ETL solution, ...

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 three ...

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 intercepts ...

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 added that CRM may ...

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 transferred to the ...

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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 implement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a need ...

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 search ...

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 in the ...

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 centralized storage in ...

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 customer base. ...

AUTOMATINGCOMPLIANCEWITH FEDERALINFORMATIONSECURITYREQUIREMENTS

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 ...

- 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 ...

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 2006). Another advantage ...

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 ...

Abstract

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 care administration embraces ...

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 used ...

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 ...

Services are simply defined as a wide group of economic activities which are not associated with goods manufacturing, agriculture or mining directly. The services involve typically human value provision which is in form of managerial skills, advice, labor, training, entertainment and intermediation. Customer service is a very critical area in business and it determines the company’s success in every level be it domestic or international. Customers are very sensitive to the way they are handled in any setting of organizations and their satisfaction in the service provision determines whether they will come back or seek for better services. It is ...

An Investigation into the Effective Transference of Medical Knowledge from Human Minds into Digital Minds An Investigation into the Effective Transference of Medical Knowledge from Human Minds into Digital Minds Introduction Knowledge is a key resource in organizations, whether in business or in the field of medicine, where the proper management and development of knowledge can result in innovations and process improvements. This is especially important in the field of medicine or healthcare as the optimized utilization of knowledge can lead to improved patient care, in particular, and improved public health, in general. However, with the vast ...

The business that this paper will focus on is a medium-sized food store in Atlanta. The food store will be used to store cereals which will be sold to other businesses. This will act as a supplier of foodstuffs to the surrounding restaurants. There is a need to have a good computer network that will enable the organization to get knowledge and gather information that will be required for effective operation. The design that the business will take is that of star topology. This is an effective topology as the various departments that will be developed within the organization will enable it to ...

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 theory, cognitive science, ...

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 ...

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 al., 2006). Finally, ...

The internet has brought about the possibility of networking easily. Everywhere and literary everything that a person does calls for some private information to be released. This therefore calls for concern on whether the information can be accessed by any interested party after one has released it. It is possible for a person, company or organization to access real time information from anywhere around the world all thanks to the internet. It is for this reason that many people have embraced it, more so the social media. But there is one dark cloud that has ever seems to be hanging on ...

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 the ...

The paper discusses the issues of privacy that have resulted from implementations of security technologies following the events of September 11 attacks in 2001. Further, the paper seeks to strike a balance between security and privacy by offering possible solutions or recommendations that may be used to address security and privacy to the satisfaction of both the American people and the government. Since the occurrence of the September 11 attacks, the concept of security has been viewed from a terrorism perspective. Privacy of individuals is bound to be influenced in cases of public security. Some of the measures used to ...

I. Topic: “Devising an efficient competitive intelligence capacity” II. Literature review: Perceiving competitive intelligence merely as being constantly updated on every single move and practice of the competitors would do no justice to the purview of the concept of competitive intelligence (Murphy, 2005). Profitable and sustainable existence in today’s scenario of “survival of the fittest” is made possible only by diverting efforts towards gaining a modest understanding of every aspect that seems to be critical for the endurance of the organization. The ancillary questions that need to be answered by the research to be able to develop a practical ...

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 new ...

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 ...

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point emphasizes three rules of epidemics, catalysts for change which provide significant shifts in economic and social culture. First there is the "Law of the Few," where most of the work is performed by fewer people: connectors, who provide a linking experience between people of the world, and connect people socially; salesmen, who persuade people to believe what they say, and so on. The stickiness factor is described as the permeability of a message - just how easily it can get stuck in people's heads. Finally there is the power of context, where the environment is ...

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Abstract 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 ...