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Marathon’s Dilemma in Investing in the Future of Clean Fuels
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Learn how to build a decision tree in Excel, using NPV and expected monetary value, to choose between two low-carbon fuel investments under uncertainty.
- Excel
Predicting Binary Outcomes: Application to Health
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Learn the differences between logit and linear probability models, and apply them to real-world data by estimating a model that predicts whether an individual has high blood pressure.
- R
Data Storytelling for Business Analytics: Practical Applications
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Learning data visualization principles and techniques using Tableau and Python
- Python
- Tableau
Highland Medical Center
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Learn how to optimize bed capacity and staffing strategy to maximize profitability for a medical center
Oklahoma Travel Management Program: Performing Differential Analysis Excel or with Pandas
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Learn how to merge a list of manually prepared categories with a large dataset of purchasing card transactions (400,000+) using Excel or Pandas for usein a differential analysis activity.
- Excel
- Python
Using AI (ChatGPT) to Complement Business Intelligence Teaching Curriculum
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Learn how to teach business analytics using generative AI
- Python
Assessing Health Beliefs and Behaviors
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Insights from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
- R
Chicago Ridesharing during COVID Visualizations
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Uses Python to visualize the ridesharing trip patterns
- Python
Measuring Productivity: An Application of Principal Components Analysis
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This study uses Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to assess productivity within a workplace wellness program.
- Stata
Merging Data in Pandas
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Introduces the requisite concepts and provides exercises that give students practice with merging data
- Python
Revenue Risk Assessment and Analytics
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The purpose of this case study is to engage participants with the risk assessment process for a revenue account balance.
- Excel
- PowerBI
- Tableau
Teenage Driving and Mortality
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While there is little doubt that driving increases mortality risk, estimating the magnitude of this causal effect is not straightforward.
- R
Customer Revenue Analysis
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Extract insights about customer behavior from transaction-level data
- Python
Data Wrangling using R: Application to Netflix Data
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Teaches students about the basics of ETL (extracting, transforming, and loading data) or data wrangling (e.g., loading a dataframe, subsetting data, etc.) in R.
- R
Large Tax Data for Use in Cases
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Dataset contains realistic, simulated financial reporting and tax return information for 16,589 fictitious companies across 23 years
Learning to Predict: The Case of Smartwatch Adoption
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This case is used to teach students to use Machine Learning and Predictive Analysis to predict the smartwatch adoption by consumers.
- R
Chicago Cab Case Version 3
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Use Python to gather and analyze data to help resolve a business problem
- Python
- Tableau
Chicago Cab Case Version 2
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Use Python to gather and analyze data to help resolve a business problem
- Python
K-Means Clustering with Excel
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This case study introduces k-means clustering in two different Excel environments.
- Excel
Unsupportive Data
Mini Case StudyPublished
Explores an interesting dataset that seems to contradict a decision your boss has just made, and then asks you how you would respond to your boss
Does Workplace Wellness Work?
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One widely touted solution to the rise of chronic disease is increased use of workplace wellness programs, but do they actually work?
- R
Facilitator Guide
EthicsPublished
Case-based pedagogy to help educators to facilitate discussions around ethical dilemmas in the data and technology space.
Replika – an AI chatbot
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What if a digital voice be a virtual friend? What would this mean for data privacy and ethics related to mental health?
- Artificial Intelligence
- Chatbot
Facial Recognition Software
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Businesses can benefit from facial recognition in a variety of ways; however, it is necessary to acknowledge its potential shortcomings.
- Facial Recognition
Smart technology and privacy
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What is the boundary between data collection for product improvement and consumer value?
Social Media and the Content You See
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Social media companies have a great deal of control over what you see, and even how you feel.
- Social Media
How to Write Data Cases
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The aim of this document is to outline data cases and primary options for developing them.
Web Scraping using RPA
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Uses UiPath to help students explore robot process automation (RPA) by creating a bot that automatically scrapes information from the Internet.
- UiPath
Cash vs. Gift Cards
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Imagine you can choose between two lotteries.
- Python
Decision Fatigue
Mini Case StudyPublished
You could stay up longer to prepare for exams or could stop working and sleep. What would you do in this situation, and why?
- Python
Feedback Frequency
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Do you think feedback frequency will affect your future performance?
Off-the-job Behavior
Mini Case StudyPublished
Would you use the information you learned from the applicants’ social media pages when determining who should join your club?
- Social Media
Surrogation Bias
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Does having a performance measure of tracking mileages help you achieve the goal of completing a half-marathon without any injuries?
Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I
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Introduces students to the basic concepts needed to complete common data analytic tasks in accountancy and business in general.
- Python
Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy II
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Builds upon concepts introduced in the first course to enable students to obtain, explore, and analyze richer and more complex data sets
- Python
Delegation
Mini Case StudyPublished
After you inherit a family business, will you make decisions in a more centralized or decentralized way?
Division Accounting Manager
Mini Case StudyPublished
Should we constrain the divisional accounting managers’ autonomy to make sure you fulfill the verification role and are fully held accountable to HQT?
Innovation Investment
Mini Case StudyPublished
Why are managerial decision-making mechanisms important in determining innovation outcomes in the short-term and competitive advantages of firms in the long-term?
Recruiting
Mini Case StudyPublished
Is it better to recruit by referral or normal screening process?
Reward vs. Punish
Mini Case StudyPublished
Determining which of two economically equivalent contract designs is more motivating
Second Course in Foundations of Data Analytics
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Builds a practical foundation for machine learning by teaching basic tools and techniques that can scale to large computational systems and massive data sets
- Python
Segment of the Moment
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By going through this case and the accompanying code, you will be taking a first pass at performing a customer segmentation task.