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Devry BIAM 510 Week 8 Final Exam Project

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Methods Section<br />

Decision Trees<br />

Discuss in your own words how decision trees work<br />

1. What are the strengths of a decision tree approach?<br />

2. What are the weaknesses?<br />

3. When should they be used?<br />

Survival Analysis<br />

1. Discuss the role hazards play in survival analysis.<br />

2. Describe how survival analysis would be used when trying to identify the behavior of multiple<br />

groups of customers<br />

3. Discuss the role of censoring in survival analysis.<br />

4. Provide specific examples of how survival analysis might be used to derive customer value.<br />

Market Basket Analysis<br />

Describe the insights a market basket analysis might provide an organization<br />

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Define the four measures of association rules and provide examples of each.<br />

What are the three types of rules, and how might they occur?<br />

Text Analytics<br />

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Compare and contrast the two major approaches to text analytics: bag of words and natural<br />

language processing.<br />

Describe the steps in a corpus.<br />

How is a term document matrix used?<br />

Analysis Section<br />

Review Efforts<br />

Note: <strong>Week</strong> 5 was chosen for possible recommendations.<br />

1. Describe what you consider to be the strengths of the analysis approach you used in this iLab<br />

2. Describe what you consider to be the weaknesses of the analysis approach you used in this iLab.<br />

3. Develop a set of recommendations of what might be done to improve the analysis you did in this<br />

iLab. You should have at least three<br />

recommendations……………………………………………………………………………………………..

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