Workshop Information
Teaching Accounting Students Big Data Skills
Presenter: Guido Geerts, University of Delaware
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019
Time: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Credit Hour: Information Technology- 4.6 CH
Learning Objective: Interested in teaching your accounting students Big Data skills? This four-hour workshop will introduce you to a hands-on approach that heavily relies on Microsoft Power BI, one of the premier Big Data tools. You will learn how to build dashboards for analytics purposes, how to do calculations with the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language, and how to extract, clean, and integrate data from a variety of data sources—i.e. learn how to use Power BI as an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tool.
Learn to Import, Analyze, and Create Dashboards and Storyboards; Take-Away a Project Too
Presenter: Ann O’Brien, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Credit Hour: Information Technology- 2.4 CH
Learning Objective: This hands-on workshop will introduce you to working with data using Tableau. You will import data, create visualizations, and review dashboards and storyboards created by students who completed a similar project. You will leave the workshop with basic data analytic skills using Tableau, and inspired by possibilities of student projects. Additionally, you will learn about learning sciences’ theories used to design the educational case. BYOD with Tableau (free downloads available at Tableau.com).
An Introduction to Blockchain
Presenter: Theo Stratopoulos, University of Waterloo
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Credit Hour: Information Technology- 3.6 CH
Learning Objective: The aim of this workshop is to use a combination of short TedTalk presentations and mostly Q&A to answer such questions as:
- What is blockchain?
- What is the role of miners?
- What is the proof-of-work? What are some of the alternatives to proof-of-work?
- What is the role of cryptocurrency?
- Can we have a blockchain without cryptocurrency?
- What is the difference between permissioned and permissionless blockchain?
- What are the smart-contracts?
- What is the hyperldeger?
- What are some of the use cases that have been presented and what are their pros and cons?
- What are the initial coin offerings?
- Can we apply datamining on blockchains?
- What is the current state of adoption of blockchain?
- What are some of the suggested cutting-edge applications?