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 Creating a BudgetIn this assignment you will create a spreadsheet and a chart to help a hypothetical couple work out their budget. You will submit a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet following the directions below to the appropriate submission folder by the due date. You will name this file W4P_LastName.xlsx.Click on the link below, Week 4 Project Tips, for some visual aids on how to tackle this week’s project.Week 4 Project TipsPlease Note:Information to help you with this project is available in the Week 4 online lectures, your textbook, as well as Microsoft Excel Help (F1). Your professor is also a great resource. If you work ahead, you can post questions about this assignment on the Questions for the Professor discussion board and still submit your assignment on time.ScenarioTom and Sally were trying to get a handle on their budget. They heard that MS Excel could help them with that.  Tom is going to school and has cut back on his hours. Sally has finished her associate’s degree and is working full time. They want to look at the last three months of their income and expenses to see where they can make changes.Part I – The SpreadsheetFirst, in an Excel Spreadsheet, create a budget to show Tom and Sally’s income, expenses, and money leftover each month (Net). Create formulas in your spreadsheet for your calculations using the following data:

• Tom brought home $1,000 a month for January, February, and March.
• Sally brought home $1,900, $2,000, and $1,975 respectively for those three months.
• They paid $1,000 for rent and utilities each month.
• They paid $88 for insurance each month.
• They paid $60 for cell phones and $60 for Internet/TV each month.
• They spent $600, $750 (due to a big birthday bash), and $500 on food respectively.
• Their car payment and gas came to $225, $250, and $300 respectively.
• Entertainment and gifts were $75, $100, and $45 respectively.
• They paid a little extra on their credit card $150, $125, and $100 respectively.
• They allocated $200 each month for personal grooming and health care.
• They put $100 each month into savings.
• Miscellaneous Expenses came to $200, $100, and $400 respectively.

A sample budget layout is included below as an example of one way to lay out a budget. Part II – The ChartOnce you have worked out the budget spreadsheet, use the tabs at the bottom of the page to open another sheet. Here you will create a chart similar to the example below using the tools you learned about in the lectures and the textbook. On the new sheet:

1. Create a column chart to visually represent their monthly expenses. If you have a challenge getting the chart on this sheet, research how to move your chart using your reading or Help (F1). You might also try right clicking on the chart.
2. Add a descriptive title to the chart.

Part III – Changing Values

1. Copy everything from Sheet 1 (the budget calculations) and paste it into a new worksheet.
2. Change values for Sally’s March income to $200 more. Let’s say that they didn’t use as much heat in March and their utilities were $75 less (you could use a formula to figure out $75 less but you don’t have to). See how the totals change automatically if you used formulas correctly. If the values did not change, check your formulas and try them again. Seek help if you can’t figure this out.
3. Rename each of your three spreadsheets with descriptive names.

By the due date assigned, submit this budget to the Submissions Area. In the message box, share how the process of creating this went for you, including any challenges, successes, or insights. In the Comments box, briefly share your experiences with completing this project. 

1. How do you describe the importance of data in analytics? Can we think of analytics without data? Explain.

2. Considering the new and broad definition of business analytics, what are the main inputs and outputs to the analytics continuum?

3. Where do the data for business analytics come from? What are the sources and the nature of those incoming data?

4. What are the most common metrics that make for analytics-ready data?

What are baseline security requirements that should be applied to the design and implementation of applications, databases, systems, network infrastructure, and information processing when considering cloud computing within an enterprise risk management framework?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four pages 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. 
• 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.

In this lab you’ll set up your own local environment you’ll use in later labs to set up Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric development and deployment environments. When you finish this lab, you’ll have the infrastructure in place to build many different types of virtual environments on your own computer.  

Kirk (2019) states composition is reviewing every visual property of the design.  The final layer of design thinking concerned composition: how to position, arrange and size all the chart elements, interactive controls and annotated components across the entire project and the construction decisions within each chart. Meeting the optimum readability and meeting the intent of the project is the objective. Dividing composition into project-level and chart-level composition options can help review and address areas of opportunities.

The scenario – you have just been hired at the company that has only been in business for 6 months.  The position was open due to the previous employee asked to resign due to performance issues.  You are now the designer for the new visual the previous employee was developing.  You must developing new composition choices in the face of having to accommodate new contextual factors listed below.  Provide two project-level and two chart-level composition options to address each topic listed below and provide the reasoning for each option.

1.           You had to demonstrate the worst possible data visualization composition practices in the same physical space/size. In other words what is the worst practice in a scenario where you are limited to an assigned physical space / size for the visual

2.           You had to force yourself to use as small a space as reasonably possible

3.           You have to transpose the work from landscape > portrait or vice-versa

4.           The initial data provided includes scales that will not fit onto one page, but a refresh of the data is indicating a change is needed

5.           The trustworthiness of the entire project is being questioned by upper management

Your research paper should be at least 3 pages (900 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). 

 Penetration testing is a simulated cyberattack against a computer or network that checks for exploitable vulnerabilities. Pen tests can involve attempting to breach application systems, APIs, servers, inputs, and code injection attacks to reveal vulnerabilities. In a well-written, highly-detailed research paper, discuss the following:

• What is penetration testing
• Testing Stages
• Testing Methods
• Testing, web applications and firewalls

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page. (Remember, APA is double spaced)
• Follow APA 7 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.
• Be clear and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Usuability testing

For this assignment you must use the rules above to calculate the age of a dog in human 

years given its weight and its actual age. Your program must do the following:

1.

Display a welcome message with your name in it.

2.

Prompt the user for the name of the dog.

3.

Repeatedly prompt the user for the age of the dog until the user enters a value is 

between 1 and 16.

4.

Repeatedly prompt the user for the weight of their dog until the user enters a weight 

that is greater than zero.

5.

Display the age of the dog using the name that the user entered in step 2.

6.

Repeatedly ask the user if they want to calculate the age of another dog until the user 

answers 

Y

or 

N

.

7.

If the user enters 

Y

, go back to step 2.

8.

If the user enters 

N

, display a thank you message and exit the program.

Any time the user enters invalid input the program should display an error message before 

Do the exercises below.

questions based on chapter 2 exercises:

(1) based on exercise 22

A) Describe how to map values from the interval [-1,1] to the interval [0,1].  

B) Consider two time series as two sets on numbers: e.g. S1 = {3, 5, 7, 8 , .., 4, 7} and S2 = {5, 5, 8 , .., 9, 7}. You need to come up with 2 sets, each having 100 elements. You can make them random if you like.

1) Normalize each set in range [0,1].

2) Find the probabilities of S2 in the ranges [0,0.1], (0.1,0.2], (0.2,0.3], .., (0.9,1] when S1 are in the same ranges [0,0.1], (0.1,0.2], (0.2,0.3], .., (0.9,1] respectively,  (find probability of value of S2 in the range, given the value of S1 is in the same range).

questions based on chapter 4 exercises:

(2) based on exercise 12

Let X be a binomial random variable with mean N * p and variance N * p * (1−p).

A) Show that the ratio X/N also has a binomial distribution

B) Show that the ratio X/N also has mean p

C) Show that the ratio X/N also has variance p * (1 − p) / N

questions based on chapter 5 exercises:

(3) based on exercise 6 

A) Suppose the fraction of undergraduate students who smoke is 15% and the fraction of graduate students who smoke is 23%. If one-fifth of the college students are graduate students and the rest are undergraduates, what is the probability that a student who smokes is a graduate student?

B) Given the information in part (a), is a randomly chosen college student more likely to be a graduate or undergraduate student?

C) Repeat part (b) assuming that the student is a smoker.

D) Suppose 30% of the graduate students live in a dorm but only l0% of the undergraduate students live in a dorm. If a student smokes and lives in the dorm, is he or she more likely to be a graduate or undergraduate student? You can assume independence between students who live in a dorm and those who smoke.

This week’s journal article focuses on attribution theory and how it influences the implementation of innovation technologies. Two types of employee attributions are noted in the article (intentionality and deceptive intentionality), please review these concepts and answer the following questions:

Provide a high-level overview/ summary of the case study

Note how constructive intentionality impacts innovation implementations

Find another article that adds to the overall findings of the case and note how attribution-based perspective enhances successful innovation implementations. Please be explicit and detailed in answering this question.

Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is also a great source for research. Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.

The paper should meet the following requirements:

3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)

APA guidelines must be followed. The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.

• Journal Article 2.1: Learmonth, M. and Morrell, K. (2017) ‘Is critical leadership studies ‘critical’?’ Leadership, 13(3): 257–271.
• Journal Article 2.2: Spector, B.A. (2016) ‘Carlyle, Freud, and the great man theory more fully considered’, Leadership, 12(2): 250–260.