3/20/2014 How eBay Uses Data and Analytics to Get Closer to Its (Massive) Customer Base | MIT Sloan Management Review How eBay Uses Data and Analytics to Get Closer to Its (Massive) Customer Base Big Idea: Data & Analytics • Interview • June 25‚ 2013 • Reading Time: 11 min Neel Sundaresan (eBay)‚ Interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson Online auction site eBay uses data about the behavior of its millions of customers to drive analytics at every level of the organization‚ and get closer
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C ASE S TUDY The Pirate Bay: The World’s Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? The Pirate Bay (TPB)‚ a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org)‚ is one of the world’s most popular pirated music and content sites‚ offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011‚ The Pirate Bay reported that it had about 5 m illion r egistered u s ers‚ a nd 25 m illion n on-registered u sers ( so-called "free riders "). To p ut t hat n umber i n p
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The Current Undergraduate The article‚ “Ask Not What You Can Do For Your University‚ but What Your University Can Do For You”‚ written by the University of California Los Angeles Student WebZine‚ claims that universities are no longer providing education for students‚ but rather running a business. Colleges have turned into a profit seeking institution‚ making decisions based on financial concerns. The article claims that students are customers and education is a purchase. Webzine scolds the students
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devices such as the keyboard and is used to capture data and instructions‚ with the help of sets of instructions it will be able to produce results or output through devices such as printers or screens. 1. Classes of computers Computers can be classified as follows: • • • • Supercomputers Mainframe computers Minicomputers Microcomputers‚ commonly called PCs 1.1 A supercomputer is used to process very large amounts of data very quickly. They are particularly useful for occasions
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Précis 7 – Describe cognitive dissonance and describe how it is influenced by culture. Cognitive Dissonance Theory is a theory of attitude change proposing that inconsistency exists among our attitudes‚ or between our attitudes and behavior‚ we experience an unpleasant state of arousal called cognitive dissonance‚ which we will be motivated to reduce or eliminate. (Bordens & Horowitz 2001) This is a theory‚ which has been transformed over many decades. Cognitive Dissonance varies between
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Hilda Peplau was an instructor at Teachers College at Columbia University where she developed curriculum in psychiatric nursing. This was during the cold war at a time when people were accusing each other of being communists which lead to lives being torn apart. Hilda was a victim of such a witch hunt being accused of using not normal teaching methods (Peplau‚ 2000). Dr. Peplau overcame these accusations‚ and finished one of her many doctorates. Her studies on nurse-patient relationships are still
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How do I use OS MasterMap data in my GIS? There are several software packages available that make the process of loading the OS MasterMap GML data into a GIS quite simple. These are in addition to the ’built-in’ converters that are supplied with the most recent versions of MapInfo‚ ArcGIS and AutoCAD software. For frequently asked questions and known issues please see the MasterMap FAQs and the MasterMap known issues in the MasterMap Download section of the Help pages (http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/os/osdigimaphelp
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How can the use of rhetorical devices enhance a speech? By Samantha Birch The strength and passion that are behind words are often formed through rhetorical devices‚ which have the ability to enhance a speech‚ and demand attention from the audience by persuading them. However‚ it is also through the use of speech elements that have assisted the creation of distinctive voices of significant individuals in today’s society and throughout history. The use of Ethos (credibility)‚ Pathos (emotional)‚
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Guantanamo Bay is a prison area near Cuba and is controlled by the American Navy. After the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attack in the US‚ the US forces picked up about 600 people from various parts of the world and imprisoned them in the Guantanamo Bay prison on charges of aiding or involvement in this terrorist attack. In most cases‚ the governments of the countries to which these prisoners belonged were neither informed or was permission taken. It was done in such secrecy that even the families
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local politicians and innocent people in such a horrific manner? The causes go much deeper‚ in this essay I seek to describe the Morant Bay rebellion‚ identify its causes and results and state how significant was it in the development of post- emancipation. The origins of what took place on October 11‚ 1865 are much larger than any single event that immediately preceded the ‘Morant Bay Rebellion.’ They included years of neglect by a government that by no means represented the masses of former African
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