Thursday, November 21, 2013

Shopper's Choice Web Analytics group presentation

The MSA students presented their projects to the representative from Shopper's Choice, Mr. Jason Stutes.  Each group was responsible for a 5 minute proposal of recommendations for the company to improve its profitability based on the decision rules and metrics that have learned in their Web Analytics class.

Winning Group - R. Nimmakayala, K.Law, M. Waldmeier, and J. Comeaux        Mr. Jason Stutes (Marketing Director)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Group presentations to Internet Retail Connection

The MSA students prepared presentations based on research of the database for Internet Retail Connection.  Their projects were comprised of the decision rules they would implement in order to make this company more profitable.  They did research and came up with the analytic parameters they felt would work best for this company.  They then did a 5 -10 minute presentation to the CIO (Steve Musumeche) and the CEO (Warren Sager) of Internet Retail Connection.


Winning group - S. Sharma, K. Fontenot, K.Marceaux, P.Fleniken,
Steve Musumeche (CIO) & Warren Sager (CEO)


Thursday, November 7, 2013

Michael Waldmeier's presentation at the SCSUG conference in San Antonio

Michael Waldmeier presented during the Student Symposium at the SCSUG conference in San Antonio on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic he presented on was : "Extending the Functionality of the SAS Library:  Using Visual Basic and SAS to Design Applications to Meet Your Business Needs".
(Michael Waldmeier is featured the 3rd person from the right)

Charles Cruthirds's presentation at SCSUG conference in San Antonio

Charles Cruthirds presented during the Student Symposium at the SCSUG conference on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic he presented on was: "Efficient Data Analysis with: Simple Stream  An Application of SAS for Exploring the Boston Housing Market".

Saumitra Sharma's presentation at the SCSUG conference in San Antonio

Saumitra Sharma presented during the Student Symposium at the SCSUG in San Antonio on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic he presented on was: "The Application of SAS in Determining the Factors that Influence a Student's Choice to Major in Information Systems".

Jaya Dhillon's presentation at SCSUG conference in San Antonio

 
Jaya Dhillon presented at the SCSUG Student Symposium in San Antonio on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic she presented on was titled: "One problem-Multiple Solutions; various Ways of Removing Duplicates from Dataset using SAS".

MSA students represent LSU at SCSUG conference in San Antonio

19 of our current MSA students attended the SCSUG conference in San Antonio Oct 31st - Nov 1st.    There was a Graduate Student symposium were the students presented their papers on different topics related to Business Analytics.  The purpose of the symposium was to provide the students, future analytic professionals, a venue for communicating analytical ideas, sharing SAS software techniques, networking and learning from professionals in the field.