MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ICT515 Foundations of Data Science Semester 1, 2017 ASSIGNMENT 2 Assignment Information For this assignment, students should work in pairs. You should submit your assignment from the ICT515 LMS site using the Assignment unit tool. Late submissions will be penalised at the rate of 10 marks per day late or part thereof. You must keep a copy of the final version of your assignment as submitted and be prepared to provide it on request. The University treats plagiarism, collusion, theft of other students’ work and other forms of dishonesty in assessment seriously. Any instances of dishonesty in this assessment will be forwarded immediately to the Faculty Dean. For guidelines on honesty in assessment including avoiding plagiarism, see: HYPERLINK "http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Educational-technologies/Academic-integrity/" http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Educational-technologies/Academic-integrity/ Overview For this assignment, students will work in pairs. Each group needs to choose a real dataset (two different dataset) that the group members find interesting, in the sense that they believe it contains data which can provide useful information if explored. Students then need to implement, via the R programming language, different techniques that we have covered in this unit to try to find the best way to answer their questions about the dataset and extract the useful information. There are numerous datasets available online, and a link to a good repository will been given in LMS during the semester. You are free, however, to choose any data set you prefer, the conditions being that The dataset must be freely available online so that I can download it and perform the analysis myself. Students must each choose unique projects – this generally means different datasets entirely. If you have another preferred source of data then you may request to use that instead and I’ll have a look. I can also propose other datasets, if students need additional...
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