Homework

Culture is an ongoing negotiation of learned patterns of beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors.

List some of your personal, social, and cultural identities.  Are there any of these that are interrelated?  In what way? For your cultural identities, which ones are dominant and which ones are nondominant? How does a person navigate between two cultural identities? 

How does your personal, social, and cultural identities impact you as a communicator and as a listener?

Assignment

 

DEVELOPING INTIMACY WITH YOUR DATA

This exercise involves you working with a dataset of your choosing. Visit the Kaggle website, browse through the options and find a dataset of interest, then follow the simple instructions to download it. With acquisition completed, work through the remaining key steps of examining, transforming and exploring your data to develop a robust familiarisation with its potential offering:

Examination: Thoroughly examine the physical properties (type, size, condition) of your dataset, noting down useful observations or descriptions where relevant.

Transformation: What could you do/would you need to do to clean or modify the existing data to create new values to work with? What other data could you imagine would be valuable to consolidate the existing data?

Exploration: Using a tool of your choice (such as Excel, Tableau, R) to visually explore the dataset in order to deepen your appreciation of the physical properties and their discoverable qualities (insights) to help you cement your understanding of their respective value. If you don’t have scope or time to use a tool, use your imagination to consider what angles of analysis you might explore if you had the opportunity? What piques your interest about this subject?

(You can, of course, repeat this exercise on any subject and any dataset of your choice, not just those on Kaggle.)

Assignment Link: http://book.visualisingdata.com/chapter/chapter-4

Assignment Length (word count): At least 500 words (not including direct quotes).

Practical connection paper

 Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. 

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

NOTE: I am working as a Software Developer in and Insurance company. Please relate the skills and theories that have applied of this course in the current work. 

5 computer discussions due in 24 hours

5 discussions

50 words each

  

Topic 7 Discussion & Attendance Activity: What to Expect in an IT Career

INSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Respond to the      below topic in a minimum of 50 words.  (5 points)
  • Reply to at      least 1 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your      responses. (5 points)

Your participation in this online activity will count toward this week attendance.

What to Expect in an IT Career

Working in the technology field, please keep in mind that you work in a support capacity. Do your best to be helpful, resolved the issue the first time, and deliver as promise. One of the most important ways to achieve customer satisfaction is to do your best by being prepared, both technically and personally.

View the below YouTube video.

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In the role of technical support to users, what do you think is your strongest social skill that would help you succeed in this role? What is likely to be your greatest interpersonal weakness that might present a challenge to you in this role? What is one change you might consider making that will help you to improve on this weakness?

Topic 9 Discussion & Attendance Activity: Microsoft Word 

INSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Respond to the below topic in a      minimum of 50 words.  (5 points)
  • Reply to at least 1 of your      classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. (5 points)

Your participation in this online activity will count toward this week attendance.

Microsoft Word – Tips and Tricks

Many of you may have some familiarity with word processing software, and even with Word. People who use word processing software can be casual users who use commands as they find them, or power users who understand the power of the program and who learn more about each command and how it can be used. 

View the below YouTube video that share 25 Word 2016 tips and tricks.

 

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Did you discover any new tips using Microsoft Word from the above video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYu3yyzdvck&feature=youtu.be

Topic 10 Discussion & Attendance Activity: Microsoft Excel

INSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Respond to the below topic in a      minimum of 50 words.  (5 points)
  • Reply to at least 1 of your      classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. (5 points)

Your participation in this online activity will count toward this week attendance.

Microsoft Excel – Tips and Tricks

Excel has more to it that meets the eye. At first glance it looks like a program to make charts, graphs, and other types of charts. One of the best features is its ability to use math formulas. This feature is helpful if you’re making any type of finance spreadsheet. With the right formulas, you can have Excel automatically add, subtract, multiply, divide, find the range, or just the sub total of any data entered in the cell(s). These formulas automatically update, so you can add data to your spreadsheet and know that it’s going to give you the right total(s) without you having to format it every time.

View the below YouTube video that share 25 Word 2016 tips and tricks. 

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How many of you have already used Excel? What did you use it for? What features did you like? What did you dislike about it?

Topic 11 Discussion & Attendance Activity: Microsoft PowerPoint

NSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Respond to the      below topic in a minimum of 50 words.  (5 points)
  • Reply to at      least 1 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your      responses. (5 points)

Your participation in this online activity will count toward this week attendance.

Microsoft PowerPoint 

PowerPoint is a great tool that can help communicate ideas effectively. With PowerPoint, you can create notes for the speaker and handouts for the audience, as well as presentations. 

View the below YouTube video on PowerPoint Do’s and Don’ts

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Discuss the general functions, benefits, business value, and practical uses of Microsoft PowerPoint.

Topic 12 Discussion & Activity: Identity Theft

INSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Respond to the below topic in a      minimum of 50 words.  (5 points)
  • Reply to at least 1 of your      classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. (5 points)

Your participation in this online activity will count toward this week attendance.

Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft 

The fastest growing crime in the United States is identity theft. More than nine million people fall victim each year, with the unauthorized use of an existing credit card accounting for much of the problem. The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that household identity theft losses amount to more than $13 billion each year, and that figure does not account for the aggravation and time required to repair the accounts.

Watch the below YouTube video

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Do you know anyone who has been a victim of identity theft? What steps will you take to protect your identity?

Assignment

#1: What are the main reasons for the recent popularity of data mining? 

 #2: Discuss what an organization should consider before making a decision to purchase data mining software. 

#3:  What are the privacy issues with data mining? Do you think they are substantiated? 

 When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week. 

Assignment

Select any example of a visualisation or infographic, maybe your own work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed ‘forensic’ like assessment of the design choices made across each of the five layers of the chosen visualisation’s anatomy. In each case your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time.

For this task, take a close look at the data representation choices:

  1. Start by identifying all the charts and their types
  2. How suitable do you think the chart type choice(s) are to display the data? If they are not, what do you think they should have been?
  3. Are the marks and, especially, the attributes appropriately assigned and accurately portrayed?
  4. Go through the set of ‘Influencing factors’ from the latter section of the book’s chapter to help shape your assessment and to possibly inform how you might tackle this design layer differently
  5. Are there any data values/statistics presented in table/raw form that maybe could have benefited from a more visual representation?

Assignment Link: http://book.visualisingdata.com/chapter/chapter-6

Assignment Requirements: At least 500 words in length

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

Research Paper: Server Virtualization

 

complete a case study of the organization you work for (use a hypothetical or “other” organization if more applicable) that will address the following prompts:

  • Describe the organization’s environment, and evaluate its preparedness for virtualization.
  • Explain Microsoft (or another product) licensing for virtualized environments.
  • Recommend a configuration for shared storage; make sure to discuss the need for high availability and redundancy for virtualization for the organization.
  • Explain Windows Azure capabilities for virtual machines and managing a hybrid cloud, including Windows Azure’s Internet as a Service (IaaS) and storage capabilities
  • Make a recommendation for cloud computer use in the organization, including a justification for your recommendations.

Submit your research paper as a single document. Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be approximately 2-4 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.