Advanced Excel - Class Project
Conduct a typical big data analytics research project, evaluate the results, and write an academic research paper.
Decide on two things:
1) A topic in which you would like to conduct research and analyze the results
2) Where you can obtain this data
Once you have identified your problem area and gathered your data, apply at least 2 analytics models to the dataset. You may choose multiple ones if it helps for your analysis. These may be any from the course content. During the evaluation, identify key features of your dataset to help determine which parts have significance.
Paper should be in academic form in APA format. Include the following sections, have a minimum of 4pages although some conferences/workshops/journals may be longer. All analysis dataset and data analysis files should be in excel (in xlxs please)
I:Abstract(quick summary of problem and outcome)
II:Introduction/ Problem Statement(what are you analyzing and for what motivation)
III:Methodology(Your experiment set up: What is your data, what algorithms, how did you analyze the data, how did you run the tests)
IV:Results and Discussion(tables and discussion of evaluation metrics and the successes or
failures of the algorithms)
V:Conclusion
Project Proposalneeded earlier (Due 7/22 at 1:00pm)- Problem statement and where you plan on getting the data (1 page)
Ideas of analytics models? Feel free to add or use others
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