Big data analysis for business

OMIS665 Fall 2019

Group Project

The main requirement of the project is that it exercises essential design principles and concepts covered in class. Generally, you should accomplish following tasks:

· get some interesting data from the web (for example, www.kaggle.com) or from elsewhere.

· produce some graphs (visualization) to support further analysis

· set up related hypothesis to analyze the data if it is possible

· build some model or models (e.g. regression model, classification analysis) if it is possible

· evaluate the results from both statistics perspective and practical perspective

Presentation (60 points): the presentation portions of these projects will be given in class on scheduled dates (see the tentative schedule). Each team will deliver a 10-12 minutes presentation that shares knowledge about the projects they have investigated with their colleagues; 3 additional minutes will be reserved for Q&A. Presentation grades will be determined by a combination of the following:

Project Quality: Each team will perform an in-depth analysis of the issues involved. The presentation should include at least the following contents:

· Purpose of the project: its main goals

· Detailed description of the selected dataset (background, types of variables, meaning of variables, descriptive statistical measures of variables, etc.)

· Detailed identification of possible relationships among variables

· Detailed statistical analysis of selected dataset

· Detailed description of the practical recommendations

· Conclusions

Presentation Quality: All members in a team are required to participate in the presentation. When preparing the presentations, students should consider the following suggestions regarding content, style, and quality:

· Quality of visual aids (e.g. PPT, dashboards, reports, etc.)

· Well-defined portions in both words and visual aids

· Audience understanding

· Delivery elements such as eye contact with audience, clarity of speech and voice projection, unnecessary actions, professional style in raising questions and debating other teams, etc.

In short, student should pay close attention to all things that make for a professional presentation.

Written Report (20 points): When preparing the reports, students should consider the following suggestions regarding format:

· Headings for all major sections, and sub-headings for larger sections broken down into meaningful parts

· Team member names and email addresses

· 1-inch margins and 12-point, Time New Roman font

· Double spacing

· Neatly-printed, word-processed text

· Use of graphs or tables to improve the quality and effectiveness of the report

· 8-page minimum

Peer Evaluation (20 points): At the end of the semester, students will be asked to evaluate the contribution of the other members of their group. If you do the project by yourself, you will get the full evaluation score.