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Data Science and Big Data Literature Review Test

 

Data Science and Big Data Literature Review Test

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Data Science Literature Review Test

INF 160 Introduction to Data Science

About the test:

  • Total points: 100 (carries 11% of the final grade)
  • Each question worth 20 points 
  • Must answer all question to achieve a maximum of 20 points each
  • Each answer must contain a minimum of 300 words. 
  • Submit responses as a word document in Canvas Assignment page. 

Questions:

  1. Define data science and big data in your own words. Why data science and big data matters?
  2. Write down some applications of data science/big data in the real world.
  3. What are the five “V”s of big data? Explain those. What is the process of data science research/project?
  4. What are some challenges of big data research? Explain those. 
  5. How do you intend to prepare yourself as a data scientist? Explain some areas of data science you will use in your foreseeable professional life as a data scientist. 

Helpful Articles:

Literature Review

Please use the attached rubric to guide your writing. Please review the example Literature Review for guidance. 

Requirements:

Times New Roman font, 12 point, double spaced

7-10 pages

10-15 sources (Peer-reviewed articles )

Correct APA7 Citations

Answering Questions 2

There is some computer science work to do.

 Select one of your favorite programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C# etc.) and research

the programming language documentation sites / articles and answer the following questions:

APIs / Interfaces / frameworks used in the applications (e.g. desktop / mobile / web).

APIs / Interfaces / frameworks  used in the user interface design.

APIs / Interfaces / frameworks used in the remote procedure calls (e.g. rpc)

Please use the student template attached here to include the answers and submit at most 3 pages long *.pdf

agile Wk3

 In your opinion, what might be some team responsibilities that are not covered in any of these roles? Could you see yourself becoming a scrum master? Why or why not? 

250-300 words

week 8 business intellegence

Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:

Chapter 14–discussion question #1, #3, #4 & exercise 2

APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.

All work must be original (not copied from any source).

Text BOOK Author,

Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence

Ramesh Sharda

Dursun Delen

Efraim  Turban

cloud computing

  

Project overview

As an IT analyst for BallotOnline, a company providing voting solutions to a global client base, you are working to convince the organization to move its infrastructure to a public cloud. With the growth the company is experiencing and the internal data centers maxed out, you want to get the executives on board with moving to a public cloud rather than trying to expand the current infrastructure.

This project will be completed in a series of steps, in which you will explore cloud technologies and cloud architecture and how they can be used in the organization.

Your presentation with audio narration will educate the executives on cloud computing and its benefits (and drawbacks) to the company. To complete your analysis, you will need to cover the following:

  • description      of cloud computing
  • basic      capabilities of the cloud
  • advantages      and disadvantages of cloud computing
  • analysis      of economic implications
  • IT      business needs
  • SWOT      analysis

There are six steps in this project. In your final narrated PowerPoint presentation, you will be assessed on your ability to convey your understanding of cloud computing and how it can be used to benefit your organization, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing and providing a detailed business analysis covering financial considerations, business requirements, and an analysis of threats and opportunities.

Step 1: Describe Cloud Computing

Your supervisor, Sophia, BallotOnline’s director of information technology, has tasked you with creating a presentation that will convince the executives that using cloud-based computing to accommodate BallotOnline’s future growth rather than trying to expand the current infrastructure will help the company do business faster and at lower cost while conserving IT resources.

Step 2: Research Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Now that you have defined important terms and summarized the basic capabilities of the cloud, it is time to explore the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing.

Currently, BallotOnline is running at full capacity and needs to expand its IT infrastructure to accommodate its growing needs. Instead of expanding current on-premise IT infrastructure by building or acquiring a new data center, Sophia has suggested that the cloud may be more efficient and cost-effective than adding more traditional physical data center space.

This information that you research will be useful in your final presentation in the last step.

When you have completed the research, move to the next step, where you will consider the budgetary aspects of a move to the cloud and the implications for the organization.

Step 3: Analyze Economic Implications

Now that you have weighed the benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing, it’s time to take a close look at the economic implications of a move to the cloud. All organizations (for-profit, nonprofit, or government) have finite budgets. Management must allocate these financial assets appropriately so that the leaders can make sound business decisions and meet the objectives of the organization.

Information technology (IT) is a key strategic function to help support the objectives of an organization. Businesses first used information systems to replace paper-based methods of helping management perform these functions, and that use continues today. Managers must be able to understand different IT models to make the best financial investment decisions for the organization.

The financial requirements for the cloud computing model are different than the financial requirements for an on-premise model. Cloud computing shifts budgets to a pure operating expense model, whereas the traditional on-premise computing model requires both capital and operating expense allocations.

Several free calculators to help estimate the cost of cloud services exist on the web, including the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator and Azure TCO Calculator. Alternatively, you may find other calculators to estimate your cloud cost. Most cloud providers have their own cloud cost estimator tools. If the calculator that you selected does not show on-premise data, then you can recalculate using one of the other calculators that do provide this data.

For your economic analysis, enter the information from BallotOnline’s IT Budget and Infrastructure Summary into your chosen calculator to estimate TCO for the current physical IT infrastructure configuration. Then estimate TCO for a comparable configuration in the cloud to estimate the potential cost savings.

Write the summary of the economic implications, showing the savings and how you arrived at them, and upload it to the dropbox below.

Step 4: Define the IT Business Requirements

After considering the economic aspects of the cloud, the next logical step is to narrow the particular requirements of cloud computing for the organization. It is important that your presentation works toward building a business case for cloud computing.

Your presentation must address BallotOnline’s business requirements and critical IT requirements related to data storage. Make sure you classify the requirements into functional (behavior) and nonfunctional, as per the requirements definition link.

Step 5: Prepare a SWOT Analysis

In this step, you will apply the information gathered in the business analysis to assess the benefits and possible drawbacks of adopting cloud infrastructure for BallotOnline.

Take Note

What Is a SWOT Analysis?

Description: SWOT analysis acronym stands for Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

Your supervisor, Sophia, recommends that you include a SWOT analysis in your presentation, since the BallotOnline company executives will want you to go over both the advantages and disadvantages of cloud adoption and any important internal and external factors that may influence the success of the project.

Prepare a Presentation on Benefits and Possible Drawbacks of Adopting Cloud Infrastructure

In this step, you will prepare your presentation for the BallotOnline executives. This presentation should present them with a compelling business case and cover the benefits and possible drawbacks of adopting cloud infrastructure, data on cloud economics, and a demo of some basic cloud capabilities.

Cloud Vender Presentation

 

In this project, you will develop a detailed comparative analysis of  cloud vendors and their services. A comparative analysis provides an  item-by-item comparison of two or more alternatives, processes,  products, or systems. In this case, you will compare the pros/cons of  the cloud service providers in terms of security, ease of use, service  models, services/tools they provide, pricing, technical support, cloud  service providers’ infrastructure, and architecture model.

You will present your findings to the owner of the company in a narrated PowerPoint presentation with 10 to 20 slides. Use the Cloud Presentation Template.

This resource can help you prepare and record your presentation: Presentation Resources.

Presentation Guidelines

Your presentation should be comprised of the following:

  • One to two slides on the company profile.
  • One to two slides on what the company is struggling with.
  • One to two slides on current infrastructure.
  • Three to six slides on the top three cloud services providers.  Include their service models (i.e., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS),  services/tools/solutions (i.e., compute, storage, database, developer  tools, analytics tools, networking and content delivery, customer  engagement), pricing, accessibility, technical support for companies,  global infrastructure.
  • One to two slides on a recommended cloud service provider based on  the comparative analysis and the cloud vendor’s abilities to meet the  service needs of the company.
  • One slide on the conclusion.
  • All slides must be narrated by you, the student.

   

How Will My Work Be Evaluated?

As a professional, you will likely make presentations to customers,  client audiences, and management. By summarizing your results and  recommendations in an effective presentation, you are demonstrating how  you use your technical knowledge to convey your ideas to others in a  professional setting. Your ability to express recommendations to  decision makers with the right mix of technical detail in an accepted  format is an important workplace and career skill.

The following evaluation criteria aligned to the competencies will be used to grade your assignment:

  • 1.1.1: Articulate the main idea and purpose of a communication.
  • 1.1.2: Support the main idea and purpose of a communication.
  • 2.1.1: Identify the issue or problem under consideration.
  • 2.2.2: Evaluate sources of information on a topic for relevance and credibility.
  • 2.3.1: State conclusions or solutions clearly and precisely.
  • 10.1.1: Identify the problem to be solved.
  • 10.1.2: Gather project requirements to meet stakeholder needs.
  • 10.1.3: Define the specifications of required technologies.
  • 13.1.1: Create documentation appropriate to the stakeholder.
  • 13.2.1: Evaluate vendor recommendations in the context of organization requirements.

ETHICAL DILEMMA PROJECT: POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS AND IMPACTS

Submit in a word document, template attached. Be careful, make sure to avoid plagiarism and to use quotation marks and proper citation as required. Length should be one page. Use APA format for citations and the required References page. Remember that the significant portion of your analysis should be in your own words. Attached is the assignment, template, and prior paper to use as a guide.