Syracuse University Business Analytics Club

09/17/2018

Join the club by filling out this application!

Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insights in one place.

09/07/2018

Thank you to Christopher Snedeker for joining us and sharing his thoughts about the current situation in the Business Analytics field.

04/14/2018

…and it’s a wrap! Thank you, everyone, who came or stopped by our last meeting - conference call with Ika Aliyeva - Data Integrity Specialist from Facebook & Instagram and founder of Femigrants -The Network of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals.

Special thanks to interim graduate office dean & professor of entrepreneurship of Martin J. Whitman School of Management prof. McKelvie for welcoming our guest!

Last, but not least, Syracuse University Business Analytics would like to thank our guest speaker Ms. Ika Aliyeva for making time and having an insightful & productive chat with members!

03/29/2018

will reduce the amount of member information it shares with “ brokers,” companies that collect data for advertiser targeting. The move is part of a series of changes in the wake of a scandal involving analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, which reportedly accessed data for up to 50 million Facebook users. Over the next few weeks, members will also be able to more easily see and adjust some of the data being tracked about them. The social network is under investigation by regulators including the FTC.

Facebook is curbing the information that it exchanges with firms that collect and sell consumer data for advertisers, as the social-media giant tries to calm an uproar over its handling of personal information.

03/27/2018

More robots - more of faster-updated data to analyze for us! 📈🤔
Robots: In a Walmart aisle near you.
The world’s largest retailer has expanded its shelf-scanning robot program to 50 stores across four states. The machines can scan an aisle in about 90 seconds, checking for out-of-stock items, incorrect prices, missing labels, or products moved by customers. Walmart has also tested a self-driving scrubber — the devices come equipped with some of the same technology used in self-driving cars. The retailer says the robots are designed to free up workers’ time rather than replace human staff.

Walmart now has aisle-roaming robots in 50 stores.

03/26/2018

Analytics of gender discrimination!

Offices are more accepting of working mothers — but the perception of discrimination hasn’t changed, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC survey. 78% of U.S. adults surveyed think it’s a good thing that more women have careers while raising children, up from 46% in 2000. But when asked if men treat women as equals in the workplace, 61% of women and 43% of men said no. Those figures haven’t dropped since 1999, nor has the percentage of women who said they’ve experienced discrimination.

Working mothers have gained widespread acceptance in the U.S. over the last two decades, but there has been little change in the perception of sexism and gender inequities in the workplace, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.

03/24/2018

Meeting #5 - Conference call with LevLane advertising agency on the topic of . Thank you for your time Dan Hall (Vice President of Media) and Shravan Hemchad (Digital Media Analyst)!

03/23/2018

‼️Dropbox has priced its IPO at $21 per share ahead of its Friday debut, valuing the cloud storage company at more than $8.2 billion. The pricing is above expectations, even after it increased the price range from $18 to $20 earlier this week. Dropbox’s IPO, which will raise $756 million, will be the biggest in tech since Snap ‼️

Dropbox priced its IPO above expectations on Thursday night.

03/22/2018

What do you, guys, think of boxes helping understand information better? 📊📈📉
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“The key to innovation is not about thinking outside-the-box. It’s about rejecting the idea of boxes,” says Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani. “Boxes” help us understand large amounts of information, but those lines between disciplines and categories are increasingly blurry. There’s a better way:

“We are past the era of the box. We are now in the time of innovation. Instead of thinking about lines and ways to cross them, think about new combinations and innovations they can create together.”

At a recent meeting, someone asked me: “Mickey, how do you come up with out-of-the-box ideas?” I answered: “I don’t have a box.” Outside-the-box

03/20/2018

How important is data safety ⁉🤔
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Political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are clamoring for investigations into the alleged misuse of Facebook member data. Information from as many as 50 million Facebook users is believed to have been “harvested” by Cambridge Analytica, a Trump campaign vendor, according to media reports over the weekend. The U.K. has summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence on the political analysis firm’s activity, and the EU plans to investigate as well. Bloomberg also reports that the FTC intends to probe Facebook for violating a “consent decree” around user information.

What you need to know about how a political data firm tied to the Trump campaign gained access to information on 50 million Facebook users.

02/26/2018

📷 From our undergraduate recruitment meet & greet on February 22, 2018.
🙏🏻 Thank you for all of those who came & passed by!
✅ If you didn't have a chance to show up due to class time conflict you can still join the club by filling out this form: https://goo.gl/TkpjE4

01/31/2018

Martin J. Whitman School of Management undergrads, don't miss this opportunity to represent our university and win cash prizes!

Deadline to apply is February 2nd, 2018.

Link to apply: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7W0QTq1zg08hiwB

2018 PittBusiness Analytics Competition – March 22nd & 23rd, 2018

The PittBusiness Analytics Case Competition is offered in partnership with the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership and platinum sponsor DICK'S Sporting Goods. The national analytics-driven business strategy challenge requires undergraduate students to use data analysis techniques to solve pressing issues in the retail space and to provide recommendations to a panel of judges.

Students enrolled at undergraduate business schools from across the United States are encouraged to apply for the competition. Teams must include between three to five students.

Prizes

1st place - $3,000

2nd place - $2,000

3rd place - $1,000

Applications, which will include a preliminary case as well as team member resumes, for the competition will be available from January 8th – February 2nd, 2018.

The Pitt Business David Berg Center of Leadership and Ethics recently partnered with DICK’S Sporting Goods to offer the first-annual, nationally focused Pitt Business Analytics Case Competition. The two-day competition, held March 23-24, was hosted at DICK’S Sporting Goods worldwide headquarters...