expected to incorporate your analysis in the main body of your report and in the appendices section, where relevant

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

In part A you are required to draw upon the relevant topics from this module and through wider reading present a critical literature review which discusses the current and future trends, challenges and opportunities of data analytics for businesses. You are expected to focus on a particular sector in your assignment.  

 

 

Part B (1,750 words) (Part B is worth 60% of the module marks)

 

 

 

(i)            Through the skills gained during the SAS lab sessions, address specific business scenarios and provide actionable insights from the data in a clear and concise manner through;

 

 

(a)  generating relevant business scenarios (10%)

(b)  analysing data in SAS which addresses your business scenarios (20%)

(c)  recommending decisions based on your analysis (30%)

 

In part B, you are expected to analyse data and show evidence of your data querying and reporting abilities by performing any of the following tasks relevant to your chosen scenarios: 

·         Importing Data Files

·         Introduction to Tasks and Wizards

·         Creating a Frequency Report Generating HTML, PDF, and RTF Output

·         Creating a Listing Report

·         Filtering Data in a Task

·        Creating a Graph

·         Filtering and Sorting Data

·         Creating New Columns with an Expression

·         Grouping and Summarizing Data in a Query

·        Joining Tables

·         Generating Summary Statistics

·        Creating a Summary Report with the Summary Tables Task

·         Prompting in Projects

·         Creating and Using Prompts in Tasks

·         Creating and Using Prompts in Queries

·         Combining Results

·        Updating and Organizing Projects

You are expected to incorporate your analysis in the main body of your report and in the appendices section, where relevant. You MUST place emphasis on your ability to evaluate and interpret your analysis, whilst providing insights into how the analysed data promotes decisions and recommendations. The business scenarios CANNOT be identical to those performed during the lab sessions. Although diverse data-sets will be provided to choose from, you are responsible for providing contextual details where relevant, including a company name of your choice.

Finally remember, this report is being submitted to the CEO and senior management of your company, therefore it should be structured accordingly, as a professional business report

 

(Overall presentation and structure is worth 10%)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1. The PAPER is 3000-word count in total.

2. The PAPER must have a minimum of 20 in-text citation and References. The citation and references style must be HARVARD.

3. Make sure you use FIGURES, DIAGRAMS and TABLES to buttress some points with the source and date listed underneath.

3. The font should be TIMES NEW ROMAN 12. Paragraph Double Spaced

4. Make sure that you use British English, not American English.

 

5. You must make sure that you did more research regarding more journals and books to be used in the paper.

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