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School of Business and Management
Department of Management

Supervisor: DANIELS David Peter / MGMT
Student: WONG Yuen Ting / RMBI Course: UROP1000, Summer

Decision making by people is based on several different aspects and many people realized that they can make rational
decision. However, researchers found that people are easily affected by environment when making decision. In the
paper, results from a survey done by David Daniels is extracted and being analyzed. Decision are made by interviewees
based on information provided in the survey and they will be asked the reason of making such decision. Hoping to get
the strategy that people make decision, text mining is done on the answers. Summarizing the existing theoretical
foundation and the result from the survey, it spells out that decision made by people can be affected by information
given.

Using Big Data to Understand Labor Market Dynamics

Supervisor: ZHOU KOVAL Christy / MGMT
Student: DATTA Siddhartha / GBUS Course: UROP1000, Summer

This research aims to explore the underlying relational dynamics between people on freelance work platforms, between
employers and employees, and within employees themselves. Particular interest will be placed on gender correlations
and the objective to locate the most important variables involved in reasonable pay, as the aim of the study is to identify
biases on the platform. Data was obtained from the work platform, such as tests taken, work histories, skills listed, and
general personal descriptions.

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