Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of having good decision-making skills
  • Explain how decision-making changes depending on organizational level
  • Discuss the role of information in decision-making
  • Contrast structured, semistructured, and unstructured decisions
  • Apply a decision-making methodology
  • Choose the appropriate technology tool for a given decision-making task
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Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the purpose of a database management system
  • Dicide whether it is better to store data using a database management system or another alternative, such as a spreadsheet
  • Explain the basic sturcture and components of relational databses
  • Describe the purpose of foreign keys in a relational database
  • Discuss the purpose of a relational databse schema and explain it notation
  • List and describe a number of online databases
  • Understand what Big Data is and how businesses can use it to make more informed decisions
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Pandas是一个建立在 Python 之上的一个高效的,简单易用的数据结构和分析工具。 Pandas 的核心就是一个高效易用的数据类型:DataFrame。这个数据类型有点类似 R 语言的数据框 (Data Frame),也有点类似于 Excel 表格,但是比这两种更加适合在 Python 的语言环境内操作数据。在这个数据结构之下,我们可以轻松的对数据进行清洗,整理,归纳总结,合并,转换,计算等等。

  • 从CSV文件中读取并输出数据 – Reading in a CSV File
  • 选择特定行的数据–Select data in specific rows
  • 输出某列数据的最大值、平均值–Find maximum\mean closing value for stock
  • 配合matplotlib将数据绘制成折线图–Plotting
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Learning Objectives

  • Discuss why it is important both personally and professionally to be an informed information consumer
  • Describe information overload, its consequences, and approaches for dealing with information overload
  • Discuss the relationship between information overload and information evaluation
  • List and describe the dimesions of information quality
  • List and describe the elements of an information evaluation framework
  • Given an information-related task, evaluate information for its usefulness and believability
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