STAYER CIS 500 Assignment 4 Data Mining Check this A+ tutorial guideline at For more classes visit The development of complex algorithms that can mine mounds of data that have been collected from people and digital devices have led to the adoption of data mining by most businesses as a means of understanding their customers better than before. Data mining takes place in retailing and sales, banking, education, manufacturing and production, health care, insurance, broadcasting, marketing, customer services, and a number of other areas. The analytical information gathered by datamining applications has given some businesses a competitive advantage, an ability to make informed decisions, and better ways to predict the behavior of customers. Write a four to five (45) page paper in which you Determine the benefits of data mining to the businesses when employing Predictive analytics to understand the behavior of customers Associations discovery in products sold to customers Web mining to discover business intelligence from Web customers Clustering to find related customer information Assess the reliability of the data mining algorithms.

D ECIDE IF THEY CAN BE TRUSTED AND PREDICT THE ERRORS THEY ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE. A NALYZE PRIVACY CONCERNS RAISED BY THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA FOR MINING PURPOSES. C HOOSE AND DESCRIBE THREE (3) CONCERNS RAISED BY CONSUMERS. D ECIDE IF EACH OF THESE CONCERNS IS VALID AND EXPLAIN YOUR DECISION FOR EACH. D ESCRIBE HOW EACH CONCERN IS BEING ALLAYED. P ROVIDE AT LEAST THREE (3) EXAMPLES WHERE BUSINESSES HAVE USED PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS TO GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EACH BUSINESS ’ S STRATEGY. U SE AT LEAST THREE (3) QUALITY RESOURCES IN THIS ASSIGNMENT. N OTE W IKIPEDIA AND SIMILAR W EBSITES DO NOT QUALIFY AS QUALITY RESOURCES. Y OUR ASSIGNMENT MUST FOLLOW THESE FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS B E TYPED, DOUBLE SPACED, USING T IMES N EW R OMAN FONT ( SIZE 12), WITH ONEINCH MARGINS ON ALL SIDES ; CITATIONS AND REFERENCES MUST FOLLOW APA OR SCHOOLSPECIFIC FORMAT. C HECK WITH YOUR PROFESSOR FOR ANY ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS. I NCLUDE A COVER PAGE CONTAINING THE TITLE OF THE ASSIGNMENT, THE STUDENT ’ S NAME, THE PROFESSOR ’ S NAME, THE COURSE TITLE, AND THE DATE. T HE COVER PAGE AND THE REFERENCE PAGE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE REQUIRED ASSIGNMENT PAGE LENGTH. T HE SPECIFIC COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT ARE E XPLAIN HOW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES. E VALUATE THE ETHICAL CONCERNS THAT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES RAISE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT. O UTLINE THE CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES OF E B USINESS AND E C OMMERCE TECHNOLOGY. U SE TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES TO RESEARCH ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY. W RITE CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ABOUT TOPICS RELATED TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR DECISION MAKING USING PROPER WRITING MECHANICS AND TECHNICAL STYLE CONVENTIONS.