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MCIS6123 Decision Support Systems (Prof. Maull) / Spring 2018 / HW2

This assignment is worth up to 25 POINTS to your grade total if you complete it on time.

Points Possible Due Date Time Commitment (estimated) 25 Wednesday, May 3 @ Midnight up to 3 hours

• GRADING: Grading will be aligned with the completeness of the objectives.

• INDEPENDENT WORK: Copying, cheating, plagiarism and academic dishonesty are not tolerated by Univerisity or course policy. Please see the syllabus for the full departmental and University statement on the academic code of honor.

OBJECTIVES

• Synthesize and understand real-world analytics use cases, architectures and tools

• Articulate and interpret real-world analytics use cases, architectures and tools

WHAT TO TURN IN

Please turn in a copy of a .docx, or .pdf file (Word Document a PDF) to Blackboard with the answers to the questions labeled with the § sign in each objectives section.

ASSIGNMENT TASKS

(50%) Synthesize and understand real-world analytics use cases, architectures and tools

In the beginning of the semester we installed and briefly explored Tableau, though we did not dig in deeply with the tool. Another analytics platform that is beginning to gain attention is the Apache incubator Superset, which has been getting a lot of attention not only because it is open source, but because it has some very useful and competitve capabilities.

WATCH the following ~40m talk, “PLOTCON 2017: Maxime Beauchemin, Superset: An open source data exploration platform” by Maxime Beauchemin:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9ehDUUu2o

and answer the question below.

§ List three points if interest you learned from the video. Be specific about what you learned.

(50%) Articulate and interpret real-world analytics use cases, architectures and tools

We spent the early proportion of class on the various analytics modalities.

READ the following article (~25 minute read), by Timo Elliot (Apr. 20, 2018) “Predictive Is The Next Step In Analytics Maturity? It’s More Complicated Than That!”:

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• https://timoelliott.com/blog/2018/04/predictive-is-the-next-step-in-analytics-maturity-its-more- complicated-than-that.html

and answer the question below.

§ Write a one paragraph reaction (~300 words) to this article. Your reaction should include your own opinion about the content of the article and the author’s salient points. In your reaction, please address:

• how the four levels of analytics capability play into the article, • how the things we talked about in the course play out into the discussion presented in this article.

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