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 Several Big Data Visualization tools have been evaluated in this weeks paper.  While the focus was primarily on R and Python with GUI tools, new tools are being introduced every day.  Compare and contrast the use of R vs Python and identify the pros and cons of each. Provide an example of both programming languages with coding examples as well as your experience in using one or both programming languages in professional or personal work. If you have no experience with either language, please discuss how you foresee using either/both of these languages in visualizing data when analyzing big data.   

Differences between policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

 

Many organizations don’t understand the differences between policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.

  1. Define and describe the differences between policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. For each, find and explain an example. This can be from your current/former workplace, school, ones you find on the Internet, or something fictional that would be applicable to each of the supporting mechanisms. 
  2. Also, answer this question: does it matter if one company calls a policy a procedure and another calls it a standard? What can go wrong if this happens?

Discussion

 

Discussion : Excel is probably the most popular spreadsheet software for PCs. Why? What can we do with this package that makes it so attractive for modeling efforts?

Week 7 Discussion and Assignement

Discussion:
This week we focus on some additional terms for IT users.  This week lets discuss what a community of practice is.   Why are they important and how can they impact the culture within an organization?

Exercise:

1. What privacy concerns could be raised by collaborative technologies such as Waze?

2.  Write up an example of how IoT might provide a business with a competitive advantage.

Chapter 11:
Review the employment challenge in the digital era (as well as the entire chapter).  Reflect on the various challenges are present in the digital era.  Will things get better or more complicated as times goes on?  Explain.  What are some methods to assimilate new generations into the workforce to think about competitive advantage? 

Assignment

 Discussion #1: There have been many books and opinion pieces written about the impact of AI on jobs and ideas for societal responses to address the issues. Two ideas were mentioned in the chapter – UBI and SIS. What are the pros and cons of these ideas? How would these be implemented? 

 Discussion #2: Based upon the current state of the art of robotics applications, which industries are most likely to embrace robotics? Why? 

Discussion #3:  Conduct research to identify the most recent developments in self-driving cars. 

M1

Please go through the word document carefully for full assignment details. 

You only need to finish Milestone 1 from the document. 

The whole research paper is about 10-pages and this is part 1 of that. Part 2 and 3 will be due in the next 3 weeks.

For this assignment, You need to write an Abstract, Introduction, and describing the industry has chosen and potential resources to be used. 

This assignment is 2-3 pages in length with a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed scholarly journal references. 

Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing discussing how a blockchain implementation would improve data security in a military, education, or other context.

Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered or other list format.  

Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaningful title.

 Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations).