Online Business Intelligence Fall 2023

  I found the lecture and readings on dashboards to be fascinating. From the lecture, I understand that dashboards are a visual display of the most critical information presented in such a way that the viewer of the dashboard can absorb the important data elements from looking at the single page. I understand that dashboards were also defined by Peter McFadden as “an easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical representation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization’s key performance indicators” so that the viewer can make a “informed decision” just by looking quickly at the dashboard (Ram Lecture 8).  Elsewhere in the lecture, I understood that dashboards should not be cluttered with superfluous information. Stick to the data points that provide the KPI’s. This could for example be related to an organization’s balanced scorecard as we learned about in a prior week’s lecture and readings.  Make sure you ha...

  Greetings MIS 587,   My name is Josh and I have lived and worked in Tucson for the last 5 years. I’m married to a wonderful spouse and have an old rescue dog named Remy. When I’m not working on homework or my day job, I enjoy working out, trying to keep my outdoor plants alive in the Tucson sun, smoking cigars, and going to the movies. I most look forward to learning about optimizing websites for increased web traffic using google analytics. I am looking forward to the course and learning more! What I gathered from the lecture is that big data refers to the enormous volume, variety, and velocity of data. Multiple zettabytes of data is quite a bit of data. The slide on megabytes to gigabytes to terabytes to petabytes to exabytes to zettabytes helped me to understand the volume of data that we are talking about when we discuss zettabytes. I also gathered that we no longer are limited to surveys of select groups to gather data. Instead, we can gather data from everyone as...