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Project Based Midterm

You have been asked by management (manufacturing, healthcare, retail, financial, and etc. ) to create a demo using a data analytic or BI tool. It is your responsibility to download and produce outputs using one of the tools. You will need to focus your results on the data set you select.  

Ensure to address at least one topic covered in Chapters 1-5 with the outputs. The paper should include the following as Header sections.

Introduction
History of Tool [Discuss the benefits and limitations] Review of the Data [What are you reviewing?] Exploring the Data with the tool
Classifications Basic Concepts and Decision Trees
Classifications Alternative Techniques
Summary of Results
References

Ensure to use the Author, YYYY APA citations with any outside content.

Types of Data Analytic Tools

https://www.octoparse.com/blog/top-30-big-data-tools-for-data-analysis/
Excel with Solver, but has limitations
R Studio
Tableau Public has a free trial
Microsoft Power BI
Search for others with trial options

Examples of Dataset

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/02/12/big-data-35-brilliant-and-free-data-sources-for-2016/#4b3e96f1b54d

  textbook – Introduction to mining – Tan, Steinbach, Karpatne, Kumar. 

 Discussion: Should be between 250-to-300 words. 

DUE DATE: Saturday End of Day USA time (3 days from now)

Reply: I need 2 replies. Reply is nothing but just additional 100-150 words on same topic but as a different paragraph. (I won’t send any replies to you and then you send info on that. NO) 

DUE DATE: Saturday End of Day USA time (6 days from now)

Topic: 

From your research, discuss whether or not your organization has ISO 27001 certification. Outside of overall protection from cyber-attacks, describe, in detail, some other benefits your organization will achieve in obtaining this certification. If your company does not have this certification, how can they go about obtaining it?

Present your discussion post as if you were presenting to senior leaders of your company.

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:

The health cares sector derives its policies from two standards. The HIPAA Security Rule and HIPAA Privacy Rule. In 80 words or more discuss the two and how they are interrelated.

The COSO framework of internal controls is practiced within companies around the world. The objectives of the COSO framework are closely related to its five components. For this week’s activity, please discuss these five components of the COSO framework. Be sure to include each components’ impact on each of the COSO framework objectives. What do you feel an auditor would most be concerned with during an IT audit? Lastly, discuss suggestions for integrating COSO framework compliance into a company in which you are familiar. 

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.

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

“The Importance of Reports” 

• Explain in your own words the importance of documentation in forensic analysis. Determine what you consider to be the most difficult task in writing a system forensics report. Justify your point.
• Decide whether software-generated reports assist with this specific portion of the report writing process and provide a rationale for your response. Provide a website or online resource that could assist with the documentation.

Assignment Content

1. Conducting research and creating a supporting research report serves two important purposes with respect to your project:
   1. It explains your technological choices in terms of business benefits and risks. This explanation is crucial for executive approval.
   2. It either reinforces or improves your plan–but only if you apply the results of your research to a new draft of your plan. In the industry, project managers develop their plans iteratively and change them as they conduct more research and identify better or cheaper alternatives. This iterative approach is especially relevant to IT projects because new technologies are developed and forced to retire at a very quick pace.
   3. For this assignment, you will conduct research and create a supporting research report. Then, based on your research, you will identify and explain the rationale for three improvements to the project plan you submitted last week.

      Download the Supporting Research Report template.

      Conduct additional research on your project’s industry, recommended technology vendors, and the categories presented in the Supporting Research Report. You may want to include the Gartner Group and Forrester Research in your list of organizations to research.

      Complete the Supporting Research Report template.

      Create a second draft of your project plan. Highlight in yellow the three changes you made to the second draft based on the in-depth research you conducted this week, and explain why you made the changes.

       

This discussion topic is to be reflective and will be using your own words and not a compilation of direct citations from other papers or sources. You can use citations in your posts, but this discussion exercise should be about what you have learned through your viewpoint and not a re-hash of any particular article, topic, or the book.

Items to include in the initial thread:  

1.  Enterprise Risk Management

• “Interesting Assignments” – What were some of the more interesting assignments to you? 
• “Interesting Readings” – What reading or readings did you find the most interesting and why? “Interesting Readings”
• “Perspective” – How has this course changed your perspective? 
• “Course Feedback” – What topics or activities would you add to the course, or should we focus on some areas more than others? 

“A picture is worth a thousand words” may be a lovely cliché, but it’s exactly the wrong way to view visualization. For this week’s discussion question, please view the Periodic Table of Visualization at the following link: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Choose one Data Visualization and one Compound Visualization by placing your mouse cursor over each option. Provide your classmates with a brief description of your choices and explain why you made your choices. Also, describe what advantage do your choices have over the others. 

ASSIGNMENT 1: PITCH DECK

Due in Week 2 and worth 50 points

You have been hired to create a Website. In this assignment, you will begin to gather the necessary information to complete the work and present your ideas to your client.

You will need to answer the following questions:

• What kind of domain name(s) will you register (i.e., .com, .biz, .net, etc.)? Why do you suggest this kind of domain? (Review the section in Week 1 on domain names.)
• Will you register the site using multiple domains? Why is this necessary?
• Will you need to secure any portion of your site? Why? (See section on HTTPS.)
• Given the nature of Web trends and changes in technology, what steps, if any, do you suggest to keep your site viable for more than one year?
• What browsers do you anticipate your visitors will be using based on information available today?
• Does the browser have any impact on your design?
• Based on what you’ve just learned this week about CSS, how will this help in the development of your site?

You may submit this in multiple formats though a pitch deck (PowerPoint is highly recommended; extra points if you would actually like to create a presentation in a video device or software of your choosing that you can upload to YouTube or similar online easily accessible hosting service. Note: Your instructor must be able to access your video if you choose this option. Prior coordination is needed to ensure your instructor will be able to access your video). You’ve been hired, but remember you still need to show off how awesome you are.

The purpose of the second part of the comprehensive project is to compute financial statement ratios. Based on the Carnival company you selected complete the following:

1. Based on formulas in your textbook, compute the following ratios for two years. You may use Excel to compute your ratios.
   1. Debt ratio
   2. Gross profit margin
   3. Free cash flow
   4. Times interest earned
   5. Accounts receivable turnover
   6. Inventory turnover
2. Prepare a DuPont Analysis of ROE for two years, including computations of
   1. Return on Sales
   2. Asset Turnover
   3. Return on Assets
   4. Financial Leverage
   5. Return on Equity
3. Briefly evaluate the ratio trends. Indicate on your worksheet whether each ratio is:
   1. stronger / weaker
   2. quicker /slower
   3. more / less liquid
   4. more / less risk
4. Write a 3-6 page report evaluating trends in all of the above ratios. Discuss whether your company’s profitability, efficiency, liquidity, and solvency are improving or deteriorating. Suggest ways the company can improve the ratios that show problems. The report should be well written with cover page, introduction, the body of the paper (with appropriate subheadings), conclusion, and reference page. References must be appropriately cited.