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• Think of a problem or opportunity that would require data to analyze in your own company. As director of your organization’s research and analytics department, where would you be gathering the data and what would you be looking for in terms of patterns, predictive analytics, etc.?

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• Pretend your company is about to launch a new product that will be very data intensive. How would the IT management teams make the decision to build an in-house proprietary system or purchase a commercial off-the-shelf system? Given your project, which would be more beneficial?

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• Describe a device that qualifies for label as an “Internet of Things” device. Present your top reason why this device can benefit society AND your top reason why it could be harmful.

Feel free to use a real life project that you have experienced.

Be sure to answer in detail and refer to specific concepts from the course.

Be sure to answer in detail and refer to specific concepts from the text and peer reviewed papers from the library. Initiate a full response on one of the topics and response to another students’ post on the second topic.

Responses must be meaningful and specific. Credit will not be given for responses that are brief and general (e.g., Nice post – I fully agree with you).

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