Less than two weeks after the NFL Super Bowl game aired, the David Eccles School of Business hosted the Presentation and Award Ceremony event of the Game Day Analytics Challenge. The Challenge is an annual competition that gives student teams real-world experience analyzing millions of tweets related to Super Bowl ads, producing a professional infographic and white paper, and presenting their findings to [...]
Crisp, fresh mountain stream water on demand from our tap is one of the huge luxuries that comes with being nestled in the Wasatch Mountains. But not everyone is so lucky. The Information Systems program at the Eccles School partnered with Adobe and WHOlives to host a competition where student teams create a website to promote the WHOlives’ mission. WHOlives is a non-profit [...]
This past summer I, along with 30 other students of all ages from the David Eccles School of Business, had the opportunity to earn a minor in Information Systems while studying abroad in South Korea at the University of Utah Asia Campus. It was an incredible experience that not only allowed us to earn credits toward our degrees but at the same time, [...]
The David Eccles School of Business recently hosted its largest Game Day Analytics Challenge (GDAC) to date, both in the number of participating teams and sponsors. GDAC is an annual competition that gives student teams just four days to analyze millions of Tweets related to Super Bowl ads and produce a professional infographic and white paper. This year 32 made it to the [...]
Editor's Note: Earlier this year, professor Chong Oh, director of the Undergraduate Information Systems program at the David Eccles School of Business, took students abroad to Korea to earn a minor in Information Systems. Undergraduate students Rebecca Hoyt and Quinci Fisher wrote about their exciting experience with the Eccles Global Learning Abroad program! Read the final installment of the two-part series here. “I encourage [...]
Earlier this year, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Chong Oh, director of the Undergraduate Information Systems program at the David Eccles School of business, took students abroad to Korea to obtain a minor in Information Systems. Undergraduate students Rebecca Hoyt and Quinci Fisher wrote about their exciting experience with the Eccles Global program! To see part one of this blog post, click here! What was your [...]
Student teams comprising a total of 72 students competed in the Eccles-WHOlives Social Impact Challenge, sponsored by Adobe from Oct. 15-23, 2020. This event was in partnership with WHOlives — a non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of people in Kenya and Uganda by providing access to clean water — Adobe, and the Information Systems program at the Eccles School. Student teams [...]
The Information Systems Major, in partnership with Domo, jointly organized a COVID-19 Data Analytics Challenge that concluded last week. The objectives were two-fold: first, to enable students to gain data analytics skillsets specifically in using the Domo BI and Visualization Platform; second, to expose students in learning to relate real-world problems to their classroom learnings. Student participants are from four categories: Business Scholars, [...]
On Nov. 1-2, 2019, the Information Systems major partnered with Domo and Layton Construction to host the annual Information Systems Hackathon. Nine teams (five graduate and four undergraduate) were given 24-hours and a use-case and dataset from Layton Construction. They were challenged to identify variables that correlate with safety incidents and provide KPIs using the Domo visualization and BI platform. They presented their solutions [...]
Earlier this semester the David Eccles School of Business was honored to host an Alumni Speaker Series about blockchain where attendees got to hear a panel of speakers well-versed in Blockchain discuss the basics of Blockchain and the broad reach it and Bitcoin have. The panelist speakers included: Todd Crosland, CoinZoom, Founder & CEO John Richards, Difuon, Co-Founder & CEO Josh McIver, ULedger, [...]
