ITECH7407- REAL-TIME ANALYTICS
TEAMASSIGNMENT
WEIGHTING: 30%(20%forthereportand 10%forthepresentation)
TASK
GroupPresentation
Group Report
DUEDATE
Week10 – PresentationWeek11–ResearchReport
DETAILS
Inrecentyears,theabilityofBusinessIntelligence(BI)technologiestoprovidehistorical,current,andpredictiveviewsofbusinessoperationsbasedonthecollection,extraction,andanalysisofbusinessdatatoimprovedecisionhasbeenthebasisofseveralstudies.Morerecently,“BigData”and“BigDataAnalytics”havefurtherstirredtheinterestofresearchersand practitionersalike.
Inthistrack,writearesearchreportofabout3000wordsfocusing on one of the following topics
1. Big Data for Supply Chain and Operations Management
2. Social and Ethical Issues in Big Data
3. Sports Analytics
Thereportshouldbewellresearchedandwrittenin accordancewithAPA referencingstyle.
REQUIRED
Forma group ofbetween2-3 members
Thefollowingarethedeliverablesinthisproject:
1. FirstistheProposal.Yourteamwillproposearesearchstudythatwillinvolveinvestigatinganddetermining howaparticularlargeorganizationuseBig Datafordrivingproductivity,inanomorethan5-minutepresentationin classforfeedbackandapprovalbythe lecturerinweek7.
2. Finaldeliverableconsistsofapresentation(10%)inweek10 andaresearchreport(20%)inweek11.Thepresentation ofyourfindings inthisprojectwould be ofabout20-minuteduration.
Everystudentisexpectedtosubmitashortreporttotheirlecturerstatingtheircontributiontotheirteam.Lecturersreservetherighttoreduceastudent’smarkiftheircontributiontotheirteamisdeemedinsubstantial.
Eachteamisexpectedtopresenttheirreportfindingsaspartofthe“TeamReportPresentation”assessmenttaskduringweek10.
Youareremindedtoreadthe“Plagiarism”sectionofthecoursedescription.Youressayshouldbeasynthesisofideasfromavarietyofsourcesexpressedinyourownwords.
Allreportsmust use theAPA referencingstyle.UniversityReferencing/CitationStyle Guide:
TheUniversityhaspublishedastyleguidetohelpstudentscorrectlyreferenceandciteinformationtheyuseinassignments(AmericanPsychologicalAssociation(APA)citationstyle,http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/print/ch06s04
.shtmlor Australiancitationstyle
Reportsaretobepresentedinhardcopy insize12ArialFontanddoublespaced.Yourreportshouldincludealistofreferencesusedintheessayandabibliographyofthewider readingyouhave doneto familiarizeyourself on the topic.
ReportSubmission:Hard-copy totutors/lecturersassignmentboxinweek11.Double-sidedprintingforthehard-copyisencouragedinordertosavepaper.Declarationshouldbedonetodeclarehowmuch(percentage)eachoftheteamhascontributedtothe report.
Apassinggradewillbeawardedtoassignmentsadequatelyaddressingallassessmentcriteria.Highergradesrequirebetterqualityandmoreeffort.Forexample,aminimumissetonthewiderreadingrequired.Astudentreading vastlymorethanthisminimumwillbebetterpreparedtodiscusstheissuesindepthandconsequentlytheirreportislikelytobeofahigherquality.Sobeforesubmitting,pleasereadthroughtheassessmentcriteria verycarefully.
TeamReport
Weighting:20%forTeamReportStudent IDs:
AssessmentCriteria:
Score VeryGood Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory(0)
Presentation Informationiswell Informationis Informationis somewhat Informationis somewhat
/Layout organized,wellwritten, organized,wellwritten, organized,proper organized,butproper
andpropergrammar withpropergrammar grammarand grammarand
andpunctuationare andpunctuation. punctuationmostly punctuationnot always
usedthroughout. Correctlayoutused. used.Correctlayout used. Someelementsof
/2.5marks Correctlayoutused. used. layoutincorrect.
Structure Structureguidelines Structureguidelines Structureguidelines Someelementsof
Enhanced followedexactly mostlyfollowed. structureomitted
/2.5marks
Introduction Introduces thetopicof Introducesthetopicof Satisfactorilyintroduces Introduces thetopicof
thereportinan thereportinan thetopicof thereport. thereport, butomits a
extremelyengaging engagingmannerwhich Givesa general generalbackgroundof
mannerwhicharouses arouses thereader's background. thetopicand/orthe
thereader'sinterest. interest. Indicates theoverall overall"plan"of the
Givesa detailedgeneral Gives some general "plan"of thepaper. paper.
backgroundand backgroundand
indicatestheoverall indicatestheoverall
/2.5marks "plan"of thepaper. "plan"of thepaper.
Discussionof All topics discussedin Consistentlydetailed Mosttopicsare Inadequatediscussion
Topics depth.Displaysdeep discussion. Displays adequatelydiscussed. ofissuesLittle/no
analysisof issueswith soundunderstanding Displayssome demonstrated
noirrelevantinfo. with some analysisof understandingand understandingor
issuesandnoirrelevant analysis of issues. analysis of most issues
Information and/or someirrelevant
/8marks information.
Conclusion An interesting,well Agoodsummary of the Satisfactorysummary of Poor/nosummary of the
writtensummaryof the mainpoints. themainpoints. mainpoints.
mainpoints. Agoodfinal comment Afinal commentonthe Apoorfinal comment on
An excellent final onthesubject, based subject, but introduced thesubjectand/ornew
commentonthe ontheinformation newmaterial. material introduced.
subject, basedonthe provided.
/2.5marks informationprovided.
Referencing Correctreferencing Mostlycorrect Mostlycorrect Notall materialcorrectly
(APA). All quoted referencing(APA).All referencing(APA ) acknowledged.
material in quotesand quotedmaterial in Someproblemswith Someproblemswiththe
acknowledged. All Quotes&acknowledged. quotedmaterial and referencelist.
paraphrasedmaterial Allparaphrasedmaterial paraphrasedmaterial
acknowledged. acknowledged. Someproblemswiththe
Correctlysetout Mostlycorrect setting referencelist.
/2marks referencelist. outreferencelist.
SubTotal-1
/20marks
TeamReportPresentation
Weighting:10%forTeamPresentation
Studentsareexpectedtocreateandpresent a 10-15minuteoverviewofthefindingsfrom their Team Report.
Student IDs:
AssessmentCriteria:
Criteria Marks
Introduction /1
Content /4
Conclusion /1
PresentationStylee.g.clarity,engagement /2
Teamparticipation /1
Timing(10-15minutes) /1
SubTotal-2 /10
GeneralComments:
TeamassignmentTotal =SubTotal-1 + SubTotal-2.