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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
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
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
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
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
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
Chicago Cab Case Version 1
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Use Python to gather and analyze data to help resolve a business problem
- Python
Database for Accountants
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Introduces accounting students to databases
- Python
- SQL
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.