Assessment Item 2 Assignment 2

Assessment item 2—Assignment 2

Objectives

This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes numbers 3, 4 and 5 as stated on page 1 of the course profile.

Question 1 (5 marks)

What is the importance of a collaborative technology? Provide the names of three software that are used for collaboration and discuss how this technology is used (in less than 300 words).

Question 2 (5 marks)

How is big data different from big data analytics? Give three examples where big data analytics is very useful for supporting businesses (in less than 300 words).

Question 3 (15 marks)

Read the resource material available on the course website about WEKA (in Week 5 and Week 6). Download WEKA software and install it onto your computer (ensure the bundled Java Runtime Environment, i.e. jre is installed). After successful installation of the program, classify diabetes from the data diabetes.arff using J48 classifier (keep other parameters as default). The diabetes.arff file can be found on the course website. Write an analysis report based on the classification results. You need to include the results in your report.

Hints:

1. To classify data in WEKA, use “Open file”, than select “Classify” ► “Classifier (Choose)” ► “trees” ►“J48”.

2. You need to develop a decision tree and explain the output as well as the important variables required for

generating the output.

Question 4 (10 marks)

Visit http://mktdemo.logixml.com/HospPerf/rdPage.aspx for performance dashboard (LogiXML, 2017). Review the options and views available to answer the following questions:

1. What sort of information is provided by the dashboard? What visual objects are used and how are they useful for comparison purposes? What quantitative or qualitative measures are being reported?

2. Provide a critique of the dashboard design and ways in which the design could be improved. Search the

web for information on ‘Information Dashboard Design’ and construct your critique using 3 additional

references, apart from the prescribed textbook.

Oral Presentation (10 marks)

Choose one topic from all the topics covered in the course, and present the topic in your tutorials/labs class. Students are required to develop a PowerPoint Slides for your presentation. The maximum number of slides is limited to 10. The oral presentation will take 15 minutes approximately.

Submission of Assessment

The assignment is to be submitted as 2 separate files using the electronic assignment submission system that can be accessed from the link on the course website. The two files to be submitted are as follows:

1.  The Word document with the answers to the questions for 1 to 4.

2.  The Power Point file that contains your oral presentation. No zip file is allowed for the submission.

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Marking Guide COIS13013 – Assignment 2 (45 marks)

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