John Sparks

Email Address: jspark4@uic.edu
College: Business Administration Department: Information and Decision Sciences
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor
Office: 2430
Webpage: http://www.uic.edu/cba/cba-depts/ids/facultyprofiles/jsparks.html
Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: Yes

Research Interest:
Analysis of business data.
Statistical analysis of stock data for investment strategies.
Data mining.

Minimum time commitment in hours per week:

Qualifications of a Student:
Students need to have some knowledge of statistical software such as SAS or R. I teach this software in IDS462 so a good path is for a student to take that course and then sign up for this program.

Brief Summary of what is expected from the student:
Prepare data for analysis.
Analyze data for a business goal.
Prepare written communication of the analysis.

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