Data Science and Analytics
Thought Leaders

Assignment 11a

 

Please answer based on the seminar of Wed 4/4.

 

Weekly bullet points or write-ups on the seminars and/or panels by speakers or the instructors, or associated white papers or other papers or books you read or are assigned (15 points):

 

Mandatory: Identify whether the following points were covered in the talk and how they were or were not addressed (while bearing in mind the 6 step process):

 

i. The firm’s position in the industry segment and against the overall industry and industry segment landscape

ii. The firm’s  approach for financial growth and profitability, and how analytics specifically enables this

iii. Landscape of analytics and their current and changing role in the specific firm, as well as the industry segment (or sector) it is in, e.g. banking, financial services, online advertising etc.

iv. The competitive positioning of the firm+ the business needs requiring analytics

v. How was as an analytics capability developed? What infrastructure was required?

vi. How were the major analytics needs identified? How were the solutions gaps identified?

vii. How was a solution approach developed in include:

1. Models & Algorithms

2. People

3. Organizations

4. Deployment

5. Validation

viii. How was the data obtained?

ix. How was the date pre-processed and for what purpose (e.g. aggregation, cleansing)

x. Identify each specific issue and the associated algorithm

xi. How much did the algorithmic approaches entail the:

1. Use of existing standard algorithms available easily in open source form (e.g. books, web, etc.), or from vendors?  Note: We use “commodity” algorithms to denote these. If “commodity” algorithms were used, how were they learnt, used, and how much of data UIs, pre-processing, aggregation, fusion, etc. was required

2. Combination of existing algorithms in  a creative, novel way

3. Development of brand new algorithms or approaches (e.g. PageRank)

4. Development of a new business model

xii. Other insights or highlights

xiii. Other insights or highlights that you have obtained by dint of additional thinking, reading, or discussion

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be VERY crisp. Short, on-point answers will receive more credit, while verbose, rambling, defocused answers will receive zero or negative credit. Either terse but clear sentences or bullet points will suffice. Submissions can range from half a page to two, but must not exceed two pages. Please add additional material separately, if you have something special to share.

ISchool 296A

Spring 2012