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“As organizations expand their digital infrastructures, the amount of data being collected is growing at an ever-increasing pace. This deluge presents a new set of challenges, and the most crucial of these — making sense of it all — depends on data visualization. Digital tools like Many Eyes and Tableau Software have empowered companies and the public to create visualizations using built-in templates, but they have also spurred a desire for more control over visual method, layout, style, and branding.”

Find two data visualization products to review. These may be either a products which you are already familiar, or products you could research.

Provide a 250 word review of the two products in responding to the following questions:

Regarding the use of data visualizations, what are the products’ advantages? What are some of the products’ disadvantages? Which product would you prefer and why?

Discussion Length (word count): At least 250 words

References: At least two peer-reviewed, scholarly journal references.

One of the most important documents in a project is the kickoff presentation. Because this document formally begins, or “kicks off,” project development, it can only be created after the project has been planned, approvals have been obtained, and personnel are in place. A good kickoff presentation communicates succinctly to all attendees what needs to be accomplished to complete the project, in what order, and by whom. It sets expectations and, ideally, energizes project team members. The desired outcome of a project kickoff presentation is for team members to begin tackling the first defined project tasks and know whom to contact if they encounter delays. 

For this assignment, you will create a kickoff presentation in Microsoft® PowerPoint® based on the draft project plan you created in the Week 1 Project Plan Draft individual assignment. 

To complete this assignment:

Review the “Kickoff Presentation” section in Ch. 9, “Communication; Project Communication Strategy; from Project Kickoff to Daily Meetings,” of The Complete Software Project Manager: Mastering Technology from Planning to Launch and Beyond. 

Create an 8- to 9-slide project kickoff presentation in Microsoft® PowerPoint® similar to this Project Kickoff sample template. The kickoff presentation you create should include details pertaining to the project you defined in the Week 1 Project Plan Draft assignment, including budget details as appropriate. Specifically, your presentation should include:

• A high-level project definition
• Business case (a description of the business problem/opportunity the plan is designed to solve/exploit)
• Project approach
• Description of team members and roles
• Project scope
• Out of scope
• Timeline
• Budget and budget reporting
• Risks, cautions, and disclaimers 

Based on your research:

• Describe a present-day example of your selected type of malicious activity and its impact on the organization.
• Specify the countermeasures the organization took to address the malicious activity.
• Recommend at least one additional preventative countermeasure and at least one countermeasure organizations could take to address this type of activity once it has occurred.
• Provide a full citation and reference, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards.

Question 1. 

Do a bit of research on JSON and AJAX.

How do they relate to the the Same-Origin policy?

Using WORD, write several short paragraphs on each. A  total of 200-300 words.

Question 2.

Use the Web to search for methods to prevent XSS attacks.

Write a brief description of more than one method.

Use your own words and supply references.

Post between 200 and 300 words. 

Question 3.

Answer each question with a paragraph containing at least five sentences. Include the question and number your answers accordingly.

a) Why is intellectual property entitled to legal protection? 

b) Why did copyright laws become stricter and more punishing in the late 20th century?

c) What is the Fair Use doctrine?

d) Make an argument for legalizing the copying of music or software. 

e) Do I or don’t I own the books on my Kindle? If I own them, why can’t I transfer them? If I don’t own them, what is my legal right to them?

f) What was the 1984 Sony Supreme Court case about? 

g) Was Napster responsible for the actions of its users? 

h) Why did the court find in favor of Diamond in the Rio case?  

i) What is Digital Rights Management?

Question 4.

Watch the Movie War Games from 1983. According to the New York Times, this movie had a tremendous effect on President Ronald Reagan.  Discuss in 500 words your opinion on whether it should be required viewing in social studies classes in high school. Do not repeat the story. Discuss it’s use in school. 

Use at least three sources.  Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs.

1. Search the internet for best practices with respect to technology implementation.
2. From your research, select the 3 recommendations that you feel are the most likely to ensure a successful implementation and your reasons why.
3. Include in your report the ways that you would increase the probability of success with new technology implementations.
4. With respect to an organizations environment and culture (including operational, ethical, social, legal, and economic issues impacting the design of information technology systems), what steps would you take to ensure success?

Select ONE ARTICLE from the following links and summarize the reading in your own words. Your summary should be 2-3 paragraphs in length and uploaded as a TEXT DOCUMENT. Click the link above to submit your work. There is an EXAMPLE attached to show you the format requirements.

What is most important is that you use YOUR OWN WORDS to summarize the news article. It is essential that you do not copy text directly from the Internet. Plagiarism is unacceptable. You can easily avoid this by rephrasing the contents and summarizing it using your own words.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/computer_security/index.html

https://www.lifewire.com/learn-how-antivirus-4102748

http://www.sans.org/newsletters/

http://news.cnet.com/security/https://www.onlinesecurity.com/news–publications-pagehttp://www.esecurityplanet.com/viewshttp://netsecurity.about.com/

Assessment  002 R Analysis and Report (maximum 3000 words)

In this assignment you are going to simulate data from an area chosen by yourself. It can be cyber related, healthcare, industrial, financial/credit card fraud, commerce – anything. However, run your ideas past me first before diving in. If you recall from the dplyr tutorials we were able to simulate small amounts of data based on several dataframes. We then linked the data we required using join() commands, etc. We then obtained summaries of the data and could use ggplot2 to highlight trends, etc.  

1. Carefully, choose your domain. Give a rationale for simulating it.
2. Define your data frames, generate them using sample_n and/or other commands. There is a package called charlatan you may find useful for generating personal names and other values. About 4-5 dataframes will suffice.
3. Think about seeding trends and patterns in your simulated data that you can “detect” later.
4. Use dplyr to extract the columns you need from the dataframes.
5. Use some sort of analysis such as summaries to get statistics on your data. Break it down by a category variable such as e.g. time, gender, fraudulent V normal, etc.
6. In the write-up, I will expect to see an introduction section, methods, and then sections for Simulation of data and transforming data, Analysis of data; marks for plots should of course be in the Analysis section.

Part 1: Analysis of the Data (70 marks)

You will need to develop R code to support your analysis, use dplyr where possible to get the numeric answers. Regarding ggplot2, be careful as to what type of plot you use and how you use them as you have many records and want the charts to be readable. You should place the R code in an appendix at back of the report (it will not add to word count).  Section each piece of code with # comments and screenshots of outputs.

• Simulation of data (20 marks)
• Transforming data (10 marks)
• Analysis of data and plots (20 marks)
• Write-up of the data analysis (similar format of my R tutorials) (20 marks)

Part 2: Scale-up Report (30 marks)

The second part will involve writing a report. Now assuming your Part 1 was an initial study for your organisation, what are the issues when you scale it up and start using it in practice?

• Discussion of Cyber security, big data issues, and GDPR issues (20 marks)
• Structure of report, neatness, references. Applies to both Part 1 and Part 2 (10 marks)

Penalties: Do not go over word limit of 3,000 (other than ±10%) as loss of marks will occur according to the university guidance on penalties.

Output: Submit PDF electronic copy to Canvas before the deadline, along with a file containing your R code. The data should be generated from the R code, so do not submit any data.

Define and Describe the following methods of clustering:

• Partitioning Method
• Hierarchical Method
• Density-based Method
• Grid-Based Method
• Model-Based Method
• Constraint-based Method

 In a corporate, networked setting, should end users be allowed to install applications on their company workstations, whether the applications are on a DVD or downloaded from the Internet? Be sure to weigh security against usability. 

4 references 500+ words (Main body) 6 years old references

While this weeks topic highlighted the uncertainty of Big Data, the author identified the following as areas for future research.  Pick one of the following for your Research paper.:

• Additional study must be performed on the interactions between each big data characteristic, as they do not exist separately but naturally interact in the real world.
• The scalability and efficacy of existing analytics techniques being applied to big data must be empirically examined.
• New techniques and algorithms must be developed in ML and NLP to handle the real-time needs for decisions made based on enormous amounts of data.
• More work is necessary on how to efficiently model uncertainty in ML and NLP, as well as how to represent uncertainty resulting from big data analytics.
• Since the CI algorithms are able to find an approximate solution within a reasonable time, they have been used to tackle ML problems and uncertainty challenges in data analytics and process in recent years.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately 3-5 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

• Support your response with the readings from the course and at least five peer-reviewed articles or scholarly journals to support your positions, claims, and observations.  The UC Library is a great place to find resources.

• Be clear with well-written, concise, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.