David MalakhInformation Science Application: Process AnalyticsThis week, the main topic of discussion was Process Analytics. Process Analytics looks at the flow of supply chain for the ultimate purpose…Nov 20, 2017Nov 20, 2017
David MalakhPredictive Analytics (Information Science Application)This week, the main topic of discussion was an application of Information Science, Predictive Analytics. Predictive Analytics, using…Nov 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017
David MalakhInformation Security and PrivacyThis week the main topic was information security and privacy. A major talking point was malware and the spread of viruses. In my personal…Nov 6, 2017Nov 6, 2017
David MalakhInformation Storage and ProcessingThis week we went further into the topic of XML as a means of storing and sending information between applications and systems. XSLT is a…Oct 30, 2017Oct 30, 2017
David MalakhInformation ProcessingThis week, the main topic was information processing. We began learning about R, one of the main functional programming languages for…Oct 23, 2017Oct 23, 2017
David MalakhInformation Retrieval Part 2This week we continued the discussion on relational databases, Standard Query Language (SQL), and data retrieval. We discussed as well the…Oct 16, 2017Oct 16, 2017
David MalakhInformation Retrieval Part 1This week we learned a lot about using SQL queries in order to retrieve information from relational databases. One of the topics covered in…Oct 16, 2017Oct 16, 2017
David MalakhInformation Representation, Modeling, and the Semantic WebThis week in class, we covered information representation and modeling through the Unified Modeling Language and the process of…Oct 1, 2017Oct 1, 2017
David MalakhInformation Collection + ScalabilityIn class this week we covered Information Collection. Information Collection relies on eliminating biases, including the confirmation bias…Sep 25, 2017Sep 25, 2017
David MalakhDecision Trees + Risk and ValuationThis past week I learned in class about decision trees and how entropy is used to determine the best course of action based on some…Sep 17, 2017Sep 17, 2017