Webinar:  Presented by:Concetta DePaolo, David Robinson, and Amiee Jacobs 2:30pm - 03:30pm Eastern Standard Time, February 21st, 2017       


Title: A Real Data Set for Business Forecasting & Data Mining Applications


Please sign up to register, link to register: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2017-02



Abstract:  We present actual data gathered from a café run by business students. We give examples of time series forecasting and data mining applications, and frame problems as managerial questions to emphasize data-driven decision making



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