ITECH7406
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, SEM1, 2020
Assignment #1 (Individual Analytic Report)
Individual analytic report: 20%
Word Count: 1800 words
Due Date: Friday, 08 May 2020 – 17:00 (Week 08)
There are new and exciting developments that are taking place in the Business Intelligence
literature that is constantly shaping the use and implementation of Business Intelligence and
Data warehousing tools and applications in organizations. The objective of this assessment
is to:
(i) Provide a forum for students to investigate the practice, approaches and
understanding of business intelligence as it is being applied in the real world to
realize organizational objectives.
(ii) Allow students to show innovation and creativity in applying SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira, SAP Predictive Analytics, or any other analytical tool
and designing useful visualization for chosen dataset.
Students are expected to select a dataset of choice and through research into the literature and
analytics on selected dataset, provide answer to one (1) of the following research questions:
1. How can data analytics provide business value to organisations?
2. How do cultural and organisational issues impact the data analytics?
3. What is the impact of data analytics in novel and interesting domains such sports,
healthcare and cyber security?
Some Datasets/Sources:
1. http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx
2. http://data.worldbank.org/topic/environment
3. https://data.oecd.org/
4. http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/
5. http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/publisher/eea
6. https://www.data.gov/
Assessment Tasks 1 (Individual Analytic Report)
Each student has to develop innovative analytics and visualization of the selected dataset. The
individual report must address the following to answer the above one (1) selected research
questions:
a. Explain by using any analytical tool appropriately to develop innovative
analytical visualization diagrams the significant insights and patterns that you
uncovered by analysing the chosen dataset.
b. Discuss the business values generated from these discoveries.
c. This will be submitted as an individual academic report (1800 words) on Friday, 08
May 2020 – 17:00 (Week 08).
General Guidelines
Marks would depend on the following factors:
1. Depth of research to illustrate the BI tools/applications chosen
2. Quality of reference provided
3. Quality of academic report writing.
Make sure your follow academic report structure with cover page, introduction, use of
headings, subheadings, conclusion sand reference section.
Please note that all references must adhere to APA style.
You are reminded to read the “Plagiarism” section of the course description. Your essay
should be a synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources expressed in your own words.
A passing grade will be awarded to assignments adequately addressing all assessment
criteria. Higher grades require better quality and more effort. For example, a minimum is
set on the wider reading required. A student reading vastly more than this minimum will be
better prepared to discuss the issues in depth and consequently their report is likely to be of
a higher quality. So before submitting, please read through the assessment criteria very
carefully.
Individual Analytics Report
Marking Guide
Weighting: 20%
Student ID / Name:
Assessment Criteria
| Tasks | Max Marks |
Awarded Marks |
Comments |
| Introduction – | 5 | ||
| BI reporting solution/dashboards – Justify why these BI | |||
| reporting solution/dashboards | |||
| • | Chosen data | ||
| 15 | |||
| Visualization – Explanation of insights and patterns included – |
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| To ensure that you discuss this task properly, you must include | |||
| visual samples of the reports you produce (i.e. the screenshots | |||
| of the BI report/dashboard must be presented and explained in | |||
| the written report; use ‘Snipping Tool’), and also include any | |||
| assumptions that you may have made about the analysis in | |||
| your assignment report . | |||
| Description – Business value generated from the data analysis. |
15 | ||
| Based on your BI analysis and the insights gained from “Data | |||
| Set”, make some logical recommendations and justify why/how | |||
| your proposal could enhance company operations, sales etc. | |||
| Include the relevant screenshots of the BI analysis, and also | |||
| any assumptions that you may have made about the analysis. | |||
| Report is well-written, discussed and presented professionally, containing – |
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| • | Title page | 15 | |
| • | Executive Summary Scope of report, answer discussion, key |
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| findings and recommendations) | |||
| • | Table of Contents | ||
| • | Appropriate use of headings within report | ||
| • | Appropriate use of figures (i.e. graphs, summary tables) | ||
| and | |||
| • | References (APA Style)- in text and bibliography (10 | ||
| articles) | |||
| Total Marks | 50% | ||
| Scaled Marks | 20% | ||
| Marked By |
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