Programming Questions

Question 1

Go to the INFORMS

website

, pick one of the examples, and write about one challenge it faced and how it used analytics to address a business issue.

Using any of these sites (or others), try to find a data set containing box office revenues of movies.

https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch

https://www.kaggle.com/

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

http://service.re3data.org/browse/by-subject/

https://search.datacite.org/

Were you able to find one? If so, what did you do? How easy or difficult was it? If not, why not? What made it difficult to find?

Question 2

the following two statements:

“The tax cut will lead to a mean tax reduction of $4000.””The tax cut will lead to a median tax reduction of $4000.”

How do you think the two tax cuts will differ from one another?

Question 3

Select one of the companies shown in the image. You can think of the number shown as the number of rows in a data set owned by that company. What are some of the relevant metrics that might be columns in that data set?