BI: Week 3 Assignment

Complete the following assignment in one MS word document: 

Chapter 3 – Discussion Question #1-4 & Exercise 12

Discussion Question 1. How do you describe the importance of data in analytics? Can we think of analytics without data? Explain.

Discussion Question 2. Considering the new and broad definition of business analytics, what are the main inputs and outputs to the analytics continuum?

Discussion Question 3. Where do the data for business analytics come from? What are the sources and the nature of those incoming data?

Discussion Question 4. What are the most common metrics that make for analytics-ready data?

Exercise 12. Go to data.gov—a U.S. government–sponsored data portal that has a very large number of data sets on a wide variety of topics ranging from healthcare to education, climate to public safety. Pick a topic that you

are most passionate about. Go through the topic- specific information and explanation provided on the site. Explore the possibilities of downloading the data, and use your favorite data visualization tool to create your own meaningful information and visualizations.

When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.
All work must be original (not copied from any source).