Discussion help

 Please read the Journal Article in this Content Folder called “IT Doctoral Students with Completing Their Dissertations”. Create an initial post that shares your thoughts about what the major challenges are with pursuing a Ph.D. 

Note – uploaded the document.

Interpersonal communication

For your essay interview/talk with someone you have a close relationship with (such as spouse, friend, sibling, student advisor, etc.) about how you communicate or are labeled. Use the Johari Window Diagram to diagram how you communicate with them. What would you both put in the four quadrants? What insights can you draw from this diagram and how does that person see you? Was this your reflected appraisal of yourself? How did things move from the Hidden quadrant to the Open quadrant, or from your Blind to Open quadrant, with that person?

Visual Studio Coding (R)

   In this exercise, you will work with rivers data. The data pertain to the length of major North American rivers, and it is built-in data in R. You can access the data by typing: 

> rivers 

Your task is to build a function that returns descriptive statistics for different inputs. The function is named descriptive_function and has three arguments (i.e., another name of inputs). 

descriptive_function(list, char, num) 

The requirements of the function are as follows: 

· The function has three arguments. The first argument is a list of numbers in doubles. The second argument is a character, and the last argument is a number. 

· If char is ‘m ’, the function prints the arithmetic mean of the list. 

· If char is ‘v’, the function prints the variance of the list. 

· If char is ‘s’, the function prints the standard deviation of the list. 

· If char is ‘z’, the function prints the z-score of num with respect to the list. 

· You can use built-in R functions including mean(), var() and sd(). 

Sample test cases: 

> descriptive_function(rivers, ‘m’, 7) 

[1] 591.1844 

> descriptive_function(rivers, ‘m’) 

[1] 591.1844 

> descriptive_function(rivers, ‘s’) 

[1] 493.8708 

> descriptive_function(rivers, ‘v’, 8) 

[1] 243908.4 

> descriptive_function(rivers, ‘z’, 8) 

[1] -1.180844

Analyzing and Visualizing Data

According to Kirk (2016), The essence of “Formulating Your Brief” is to “identify the context in which your work will be undertaken and then define its aims: it is the who, what, where, when and how.” It could be formal or informal as any project you think you must make it. This phase is where you create a vision for your work. Checkout Chapter 3 “Formulating Your Brief” from the attachment. 

Answer Needed in APA 7 format with in-text citations and References with 500 + Words.

Question to Answer is:
Why is it so important to formulate your brief for a data presentation? Discuss some ways you would implement to formulate an effective brief. What are some advantages to your methods? What are some disadvantages?

Topic Summary

 

Topic

 ‘Research emerging enterprise network applications and describe 3 that you think are most interesting and briefly explain why you believe this. ‘ 

– The summary should be 300 words with a minimum of 3 references on the topic.

– There should be no plagiarism, attach a plagiarism report with 0% similarity index

Discussion 2

How do you feel blockchain will change the global economy or will it?  Explain your answer.

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:

  • Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
  • Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
  • Provide extensive additional information on the topic
  • Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
  • Share an applicable personal experience
  • Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
  • Make an argument concerning the topic.

Reference articles:

Textbook, Chapter 1 & 11: Bashir, I. (2017). Mastering Blockchain. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing. 

Norberg, H. (2019). Unblocking the Bottlenecks and Making the Global Supply Chain Transparent: How Blockchain Technology Can Update Global Trade. The School of Public Policy Publications, (9), 1.

Kshetri, N. (2017). Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? Third World Quarterly, 38(8), 1710–1732. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1298438

Varghese, J. J., Sharma, D., & Singh, N. K. (2019). Analysing the Impact of Blockchain Technology in India’s Digital Economy. Global Journal of Enterprise Information System, 10(3), 94–99. https://doi.org/10.18311/gjeis/2019

INSTRUCTIONS.

1. No Plagiarism at any cost .

2. The submission date is Thursday (01/14/21).

3. Atleast 3 references in APA format

4. Min of 250 words (2-3 paragraphs)