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AMD 4750: Retail Information Analysis

Spring 2025
Berg Fashion Library

Course Information

AMD 4750: Analysis, synthesis, and interpretation of information needed to make effective retail decisions in regard to the following: assortment planning, forecasting, customer segmentation, market research, analysis of customer databases, data mining, database interface, pattern recognition, and retail technology applications. Applications of various innovative information systems and technology applications for sourcing (i.e. Sourcing Simulator), supply chain management, stock management, and sales and replenishment analysis with industry data (i.e. Microsoft Excel), cases, experiential exercises and computer simulations.

Instructors: Prof. Jessica Hurst & Rakesh Salian (Ph.D. Candidate)
Emails: hurstj@iastate.edu / rsalian@iastate.edu
Phones: 515-294-5284 / 515-xxx-xxxx

Library Workshops - Spring 2025

See The Library Events Calendar For a More Up-To-Date List.

January 29: Wed, 12:00pm -1:00pm Introduction to Citation Management Tools (Online)
January 30: Thu, 3:40pm-4:55pm Market Research 101 (In Person)
February 6: Thu, 3:00pm-4:30pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 7: Fri, 2:30pm-4:00pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 12: Wed, 11:00am-11:50am Data Viz 101: Effective Design (In Person)
February 13: Thu, 11:00am-12:15pm Data Viz Glow Up: Pick a Chart Type (In Person)
*February 14: Fri, 1:00pm-2:00pm Love Data Week Celebration (In Person - Not a Workshop)
February 18: Tue, 1:00pm-2:30pm Making LaTex PDFs Accessible in Adobe Acrobat PC Pro (In Person)
February 18: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps (in Person)
February 19: Wed, 1:00pm-3:00pm Unix Command Line Fundamentals (In Person)
February 24: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
February 25: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Starting a Digital Humanities Project (In Person)
February 26: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Git Basics For Absolute Beginners (in Person)
February 27: Thu, 12:00pm-1:30pm Unpacking (Cy)Box For Better File Management (Online)
March 3: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 2 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
March 4: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Teaching With Twine (In Person)
March 5: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Unix and Git Basics Follow up (In Person)
March 13: Thu, 2:10pm-3:25pm Getting Started With LaTex and Overleaf (In Person)
March 27: Thu, 11:00am-11:50am Introduction to DataShare and the ISU Digital Repository (Online)
April 7: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)
April 14: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)

Librarian

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Charles Yier
Contact:
150 Parks Library
Iowa State University
515-294-4681

The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.