Master of Business Analytics BUS5WB
La Trobe Business School
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BUS5WB - Data Warehousing and Big Data
Assignment 03: Internet of Things in
Marks: 30%
Assignment Type: Individual
Due Date: 11:59PM Sunday 4th June 2017.
Internet of Things (IoT) has disrupted the role of Big Data in business environments of multiple industries
through the proliferation of highly granular and actionable information. As discussed in class and
demonstrated in the tutorial, there’s huge potential for diverse applications. The third assignment aims to
explore the role of Internet of Things within an industry of your choice through research and review of
relevant resources.
You are required to identify such an industry, conduct a comprehensive literature search on the
implications of IoT, collate and analyse your findings/readings, identify the key areas you wish to discuss
and compile a professionally written report as your assignment submission.
The report should focus on key aspects applicable to the chosen industry, including (but not limited to);
• Business value (from business questions to actionable outcomes)
• Technology (separately for IoT information management and analytics)
• Data (sources, integration and data quality issues)
• Other factors (privacy, ethics, organisational issues)
Report guidelines
1. Choose a fitting sequence of sections/topics for the body of the report.
2. Page limit: 3-5 pages (not more than 5 pages).
3. Report should be written in Microsoft Word (font size 11) and submitted as a Word file.
Marking rubric
A grade will be awarded to each of the tasks and then an overall mark determined for the entire
assessment. The rubric below gives you an idea of what you must achieve to earn a certain ‘grade’.
As a general rule, to meet a ‘C’, you must first satisfy the requirements of a ‘D’. And for an ‘A’, you must
first satisfy the requirements of a ‘B’, which must of course first meet the requirements of a ‘C’ and so on.
The marking rubric for this assignment is given below.
Criterion D C B A
Report
(30 marks)
Reasonable coverage
of recent research
literature on IoT and
its application in a
fitting industry.
Good coverage of
recent research and
commercial literature
on IoT and its
application in a fitting
industry.
Excellent coverage of
recent research and
commercial literature
on IoT and its
application in a fitting
industry.
Extensive coverage
(including a
comparative study of
related technologies)
of recent research,
commercial and
technical literature on
IoT and its application
in a fitting industry.
Other information
• Standard plagiarism and collusion policy, and extension and special consideration policy of this
university apply to this assignment.
• A cover sheet is NOT required. By submitting your work online, the declaration on the university’s
assignment cover sheet is implied and agreed to by you.