Tidskriften Fokus gör varje år en ranking av Sveriges kommuner utifrån frågan: Var är det bäst att leva? På länken nedan kan du ta del av rankingen, se särskilt länk till PDF med alla poäng. Läs igenom materialet och se om det är tydligt hur rankingen är gjord. […]

Use the data available at https://www.kaggle.com/kolawale/focusing-on-mobile-app-or-website What Questions can you formulate, considering the data you have? What Conceptual reasoning do you suggest? What Analytics approach could be appropriate? What Results do you get? On Kaggle, users can submit reports on their approaches. Now have a look at one […]

Read this case describing how Target used analytics to identify certain customers:https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ What was the Question guiding their Analysis? What were the Concepts? Can you guess what analytic techniques they used? What were the Results? What value did the analysis create? For whom? Reflect on the ethics of […]

Analysis should create some sort of value. It can support decision-making, personalize an experience, or predict and avoid mistakes. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of what “value” the analysis should deliver, and to whom. What distinguishes Business Analytics from other Analytics (including the generic data-centered “Analytics”) is […]

Which of the following companies will first go bankrupt*: Facebook, H&M, or Tesla? Use the Analytical Diamond to structure your analysis. Specify/rephrase the Question as needed. Make assumptions where needed, and be explicit about them. Define Concepts according to your understanding of the phenomenon – or previous research […]

Applied Analysis does not have to be related to a complex situation where business value, strategic alignment, or policy considerations come into play. It can be relevant even in the most basic, everyday situation where you have to make a decision. Often you probably do not even think […]

The Diamond Model of Applied Analysis describes a structured approach to analysis. How do you see this? Describe your approach to analysis, use your own words or borrow the terminology from the diamond model (approx. 2 pages). Add, remove, rephrase so that it fits your approach to analysis. […]

In the city of Västerås, Sweden, the number of pedestrians and cyclists are counted in different places around the city. A dashboard showing the counts is available online: https://data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic//?id=4615 By looking at the calls the webpage makes, we can get the data source for the different counters, for […]

Challenge: Decompose a news text into the four parts of the diamond Instructions Find a news text that concerns something of interest to you. Or maybe an excerpt from the TV news. Try to “decode” the story. What is the Question? What are the Concepts? What are the […]

Challenge: Decompose a research paper into the four parts of the diamond Instructions Find a research paper that concerns something of interest to you. It can be an excerpt from a book (even textbook), an article published in a journal or conference proceedings, or an open-access paper. Use […]