Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:

Chapter 1 –discussion question #1 & exercises 5, 15 (limit to one page of analysis for question 15)

question 1 – Survey the literature from the past six months to find one application each for DSS, BI, and analytics. Summarize the applications on one page, and submit it with the exact sources.

Exercise 5 –

Go to http://analytics-magazine.org/issues/digital-editions and find the January/February 2012 edition titled “Special Issue: The Future of Healthcare.” Read the article “Predictive Analytics—Saving Lives and Lowering Medical Bills.” Answer the following questions:

What problem is being addressed by applying predictive analytics?

What is the FICO Medication Adherence Score?

How is a prediction model trained to predict the FICO Medication Adherence Score HoH? Did the prediction model classify the FICO Medication Adherence Score?

Zoom in on Figure 4, and explain what technique is applied to the generated results.

List some of the actionable decisions that were based on the prediction results.

Exercise 15:

Find information about IBM Watson’s activities in the healthcare field. Write a report.

When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.

I have attached the pdf related to chapter one.