MIS 0855 Final: Exam 1 Notes

• School: Temple University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 0855
• Professor: Min-seok Pang

Document Summary

Exam 1 notes: what is on the exam/how to study. Read all class slides and in-class exercises. Review tableau in-class exercises in week 3-4. Connecting the dots is taking information to get more knowledge in order to solve a crime. Why do we need information: we need it for: Metadata: data dictionary, data for data. Importance to describe the meaning, type, purpose, of data because computers are dumb. Problems with ucr data: reports only crimes known to the police, reports on only the most serious crime incident, does not collect all relevant data, reveals more about police behavior than it does about criminality. How to calculate unemployment rate: unemployed/labor force x 100, labor force = people looking for work and people working. Yelp star reviews: people paid to make reviews, stars manipulated, only saddest and happiest customers review. Tableau: ta(cid:271)leau file does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374) data, the e(cid:454)(cid:272)el file does, why change sum to average in fast food map.