Complete the project to practice both using Power BI and analyzing data.
Save all changes described in the project and make three to five of your own changes that enhance data analysis.
Submit a Word document report of fewer than eight pages with the following level one headings and content. Use level two and three headings as needed.
Introduction
Changes
Describe the changes you made and why you made each change.
Insert figures (screenshots of your changes). Ensure these are properly labeled per APA 7.
Analysis
Describe insights gleaned from your data analysis.
Insert figures (screenshots of visualizations from Power BI).
Conclusion
Requirements
Submit only one Word document.
APA version 7 format.
Include a cover page and abstract.
Do not include a table of contents.
Use for guidance.
Review the rubric to ensure you understand how you will be assessed.
Rubric
Lab 20 2024
Lab 20 2024
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeChangesDescribes how and why changes are made. Inserts images of changes with proper labeling. The best changes make the information more significant than before.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAnalysisDescribes insights gained from analysis of the data and visualizations. Provides properly labeled figures showing the insights. The best insights are significant interpretations based on the data.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeWriting/Grammar/APAClearly written with no stylistic or grammar errors. Business writing must hold the reader’s interest as well as describing precisely and concisely the subjects being discussed. APA conventions are followed.
then use your results as the foundation for a 500-word reflective essay on leadership. In your essay, discuss your personal conception of what constitutes effective leadership, drawing connections between your personality profile and your leadership philosophy.
Additionally, include a comprehensive personal SWOT analysis that critically examines your leadership style, core personality traits, guiding viewpoints, and areas for future growth and development.
Please follow instructions below. Please attached references use for this discussion. Minimum 350 words (not including references ). References must be cited in APA format 7th Edition and must include a minimum of 2 scholarly resources published within the past 5 years. REFERENCES Must have DOI Numbers
Mortality and morbidity rates for infectious diseases vary greatly by geographical location. World Health Organization (WHO) statistics provide striking documentation that deaths due to infectious diseases are much higher in poor countries than in the countries with the highest income levels. It is particularly striking that malaria and tuberculosis are significant causes of death in low-resource countries, whereas these diseases are rarely fatal in wealthy countries. Other infectious diseases that significantly cause death in low-resource countries are pneumonia, diarrhea, and HIV infection. The top ten causes of death in lower and middle-resource countries In lower and middle-resource countries also include lower respiratory infections, tuberculosis, and diarrheal diseases.
1. Define infection and identify the differences between colonization and infection, giving specific examples of each.
2. How does infection start, and what is the usual course?
3. What factors influence the course of an infection? Give specific examples of different trajectories of infection.
Requirements: Minimum 350 words (not including references
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to teach you how data is structured, stored, and accessed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). You will learn about the differences between vector and raster data, coordinate systems, metadata, creating and editing your own data, working with shapefile data, and creating, populating, and sharing a geodatabase. This assignment will enhance your skills in data management, GIS software proficiency, and critical thinking, which are valuable in both academic and professional settings. You will use both ArcGIS Pro AND ArcGIS Onlinein this exercise. Follow the instructions carefully to know which platform to use when. For more information about the difference between the two platforms, see .Time: A 90-minute ESRI training course on data management.
Learning Objectives: You will learn how to:
Download and extract GIS data.
Evaluate data quality using metadata, geography previews, and attribute tables.
Create a geodatabase and feature datasets.
Import data into a geodatabase and organize it into feature classes.
Share your geodatabase and project files.
Tasks:
Complete the ESRI Training Course:
Access and complete the ESRI training course titled Getting Started with Data Management.
Obtain the course certificate and save it as a PDF named YourLastName_Certificate_MapAssignment2.pdf.
ESRI Course: Getting Started with Data Management
The first part of this exercise is an ESRI training course titled .
If you are a JSU student working in the remote connection, you MUST access the course link in a browser you have opened INSIDE the remote connection, not on your own computer. You will download data during the course, and if the data is downloaded to your own computer you will not be able to use it in ArcGIS Pro in the remote connection.
1. Click the course link above to go to the course. When you arrive at the course, click Sign In and enter your account details to sign in.
If you are a JSU student, you MUST use your JSU GIS account. Your professor will not be able to keep track of your work or give you credit for it if you use any other kind of ArcGIS account.
2. After signing in, you will return to the same page, but the Sign In button will be replaced with Launch Course. Click it.
You will be prompted to select which version of ArcGIS Pro you are using.
3. To find which version you have installed, open ArcGIS Pro and sign in if necessary. Click Settings in the bottom-left hand corner and note which version number appears in the About ArcGIS Pro section.
4. Back on ESRI.com, select the appropriate version to begin the course. (If your version number is higher than any of the available options, select the most recent version offered).
Before moving to the course activities, you will have to download the course data on the Overview page. The data is downloaded in the form of an .exe file which you run to install the data in a folder of your choice.
5. Download the data and run the installer.
If you are prompted to create the destination directory, click Yes.
6. After you have successfully installed the data, click Start to move on.
This course has two main topics with multiple activities under each which need to be completed in order. Some of the activities are readings or videos, while others are exercises. The last activity in each topic is a quiz, which you must pass to move on. The quizzes cover all the material within the topic, so be sure to read and watch everything carefully and work through every step of the exercises.
Any activities that require you to use ArcGIS Pro and/or ArcGIS Online are labeled EXERCISE, while other activities are usually readings or videos.
7. Work your way through the course to its conclusion.
In the final exercise, Use ArcGIS to create, store, and share GIS data, you may run into an error in step 5e. The course instructs you to publish an ArcGIS Online layer named Nutrino Vendors, but ArcGIS Online does not allow file names to be duplicated within your organization. If someone else in your organization has already taken this course, it is likely that the name is already taken.
8. To get around this issue, simply add an underscore and your name or something else unique to the file name before clicking Publish.
After you successfully complete the course, you will be taken to the Conclusion page.
9. The deliverable for this section of the exercise will be the course certificate, so click Go to My Learningto find it.
On the My Learning Activity page, you will see all the ESRI training courses you have completed, with the most recent one at the top of the list.
10. Click View Certificate to see your course certificate. Download it and name the file YourLastName_Certificate_Lab2.pdf.
If you are a JSU student working in the remote connection, remember to select a location on the local C: drive when you download your course certificate.
11. You can now close all browser tabs and instances of ArcGIS Pro that you were using for the ESRI training course. The second part of this exercise is entirely separate and does not involve any of that data.
Submission Instructions
Deliverables: You will submit a single zip file named “YourLastName_Lab2” containing:
The PDF course certificate from the ESRI training course.
The filenames must be “YourLastName_Certificate_MapAssignment2.pdf”
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY SO THAT THE ASSIGNMENT WILL BE RIGHT I HAD SOMEONE TO ATTEMPT IT TWICE AND IT WAS WRONG.
A literature review describes what has been learned about a topic through previous research efforts. The literature review is essentially a report on work previously done in a field, to show an understanding of the context for your own writing. A literature review is not a summary of individual sources in a list, as is an annotated bibliography. Rather, the literature review paraphrases the findings from the scholarly readings you selected. You will identify key themes from the various sources and use in-text citations to support your discussion of the information you learned from the scholarly readings.
Writing a literature review involves searching Capella University Library databases for scholarly articles on your chosen area of focus. Sources of information may be reports, professional associations, and the works of seminal theorists such as scholars and experts in the field. Your selected references should have been published within the past seven years. While certain seminal works you reference may be older than seven years, most of your sources must be recently published per the guidelines.
Spend some time considering current issues, problems, innovations, changes, or trends in your field that interest you. Review news and resources of professional organizations related to your specialization to gain more insight into possible topic choices.
Finding Scholarly Sources
Once you have chosen your topic, you will need to find at least five relevant, scholarly sources. Up to two of these may be seminal works; the other sources must be peer-reviewed articles no older than seven years.
Seminal Works
Seminal authors are those who have written foundational works related to a discipline. For example, Peter Senge is considered a seminal author and researcher in organizational development. Your literature review may contain one or two seminal sources. While it’s important to choose the most recent peer-reviewed studies for a literature review, seminal sources may be older than five years.
Peer Review
A peer-reviewed source is a journal article reviewed and accepted for publication by a committee of peers from a professional organization in the field related to your specialization and education. Journals from education, the social sciences, and other fields may contribute to your list of references. Most of the scholarly sources that you select must be specific to your specialization and education.
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Theory Research Resources
Your literature review should address at least two theorists pertinent to your interest in the field. Use the following resources for more information about various specializations and the theorists important to them. Pay particular attention to the program resources for your specialization and related specializations.
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The “Finding Articles About a Theorist” section of the can help you find articles or texts related to theorists you choose for your literature review.
Explore, if possible, one article or text written by the theorist and one article or text about the theorist. This will help you gain a strong understanding of the theory you will incorporate into your literature review.
Writing Self-Assessment
The offers a self-assessment to help you understand your skills and areas of growth in academic writing. This self-assessment is not graded; however, you can use the results to inform your writing for Assessments 2 and 3.
Tip: The following analysis of your writing skills will be reviewed in Assessment 4, Critical Reflection and Writing Process Evaluation.
Complete the .
After you complete the activity, click Download Activity Results to save your results as a PDF file.
Note the links to useful resources provided below your results.
Exemplar
You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like: .
The literature review should integrate in-text citations within the paragraphs to support analysis of the scholarly readings on a selected topic. A literature review is not a summary of individual sources in a list, as you would find in an annotated bibliography. Your literature review should:
Incorporate at least five scholarly sources. Up to two of these can be seminal works and the remaining must be peer-reviewed articles no older than seven years.
Address at least two theorists pertinent to your interest in the field.
Use the as a guide for formatting and organizing your paper.
Organization
Start with a title page and organize your assessment with the following guidelines:
Title page: Use “[Chosen Topic]: Literature Review” as your title.
Introduction
Your introduction needs to tell the reader the focus of your literature review. Summarize the issues you selected from the literature and provide a summary or road map for the content you include. The introduction should alert the reader to the context of your papers main idea. A citation in text is often included to further support the paper’s focus. The length of an introductory paragraph should be no more than one-half page.
Overview of Topic
Begin the body of your paper with an overview of the topic you chose for this review. Your topic description can begin with a broad consideration related to education. Write in third person and include literature support.
Topic Relation to Specialization
Provide a detailed description and examples of how the topic you chose to review specifically relates to your specialization. Write in third person and include literature support.
Review of the Literature
Evaluate scholarly articles using principles of critical thinking.
Apply principles of critical thinking to your analyses and evaluations of the literature you review.
Keep in mind the process of questioning as you review your articles: for example, how the articles present similar or contrasting information about your topic, how well the articles support your perspective on the topic, and if you discovered something new about your topic through your literature review.
Analyze information gathered in the literature review.
Seek key themes from the different scholarly sources and incorporate relevant theory.
Conclusion
Your conclusion should emphasize the main themes in your paper and synthesize the literature reviewed.
References
Cite a minimum of five scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles (related to your field of specialization, no more than seven years old). You must include in-text citations for your sources and a reference list.
In addition to the requirements outlined above, your assessment should meet the following:
Structure: Use the to structure your assessment.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Visit for assistance.
Sources: Incorporate at least five scholarly sources. Up to two of these may be seminal works; the other sources must be peer-reviewed articles no older than seven years.
APA formatting: Use appropriate APA style and formatting for citations and references. Refer to or in the Capella Writing Center.
Length: Include 57 double-spaced content pages, in addition to the title page and references page.
Download and open the AI and Information Literacy template.
Click on the following link to download the template: .
If you are using the Google Chrome browser (which is the recommended browser for navigating your online courses in the Canvas LMS), the template will automatically download to your Downloads folder.
Navigate to your Downloads folder and double-click the file to open it in Microsoft Word.
Select one of the provided AI prompts and follow the steps in the template to provide the following items:
Initial AI prompt and tool
AIs response and reference(s) to the initial prompt
Analysis of credibility indicators (CRAAP criteria)
Copy the dataset under the first tab, labelled Question 1, into a new Microsoft Excel workbook.
What is a stock market index?
A stock market is a collection of selected stocks, also called shares, and the related market index is computed from the prices of these stocks. Indices can be classified in various ways, the most common of which is by performance.
Examples of performance-based indices are the American Standard & Poors 500 (S&P 500), the British Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 (FTSE 100), and the Japanese Nikkei 225. The FTSE 100, for example, is a share index of the 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange that have the highest market capitalisation (as capitalisations change over time, the composition of these leading 100 companies is periodically reviewed).
Stock prices often correlate with the stock market index and tend to change as the market index changes. Investigate the relationship between the market index and each of the two stock prices included in the dataset, by following these steps:
Determine the explanatory and response variables.
Run a regression analysis for each of the two stock prices against the index price.
Interpret the results by answering the following questions:
Plot each of the two stocks against the market index on a scatterplot. Include these scatterplots in your submission. What are the expected correlations that might exist between each of the stocks and the market index?
What are the calculated correlation coefficients? Compare these to your plots. Were your initial expectations correct?
Comment on the coefficients of determination. Which of the two models has the higher explanatory power?
What are the beta coefficients for each of the two stocks?
Suppose you were to purchase one of these two stocks, and your decision relied on their volatility in relation to the market index (i.e. their beta coefficients); which of the two stocks would you purchase if you were interested in buying a volatile stock?
(Max. 200 words)
Start writing here:
Question 2: Multivariate analysis
Copy the dataset under the second tab, labelled Question 2, into a new Microsoft Excel workbook.
Sales figures are usually related to more than one variable, whether it is marketing expenditure, advertising material, shelf placement, or product pricing structures. In this question, total sales figures were found to have a correlation with marketing expenditure and the price of the product. Logically, it could be argued that an increase in marketing expenditure should result in an increase in sales. Similarly, an increase in product price could reduce sales figures.
Using the data provided, perform the following analysis:
Determine the explanatory and response variables.
Run a multivariate regression analysis on all three variables.
Interpret the results by answering the following questions:
What is the calculated correlation coefficient? Do the sales figures correlate with the marketing expenditure and price?
Comment on the coefficient of determination. What percentage of the response data can be explained by the explanatory variables?
Determine the multiple regression line equation in the form:
Using the regression equation formulated, what is the amount of expected sales (in pounds), if the price is set at ?3.50 and the amount spent on marketing is ?300?
Interpret the variables in the regression equation. What impact does each of the factors (marketing and price) have on the sales figures?
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to teach you how data is structured, stored, and accessed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). You will learn about the differences between vector and raster data, coordinate systems, metadata, creating and editing your own data, working with shapefile data, and creating, populating, and sharing a geodatabase. This assignment will enhance your skills in data management, GIS software proficiency, and critical thinking, which are valuable in both academic and professional settings. You will use both ArcGIS Pro AND ArcGIS Onlinein this exercise. Follow the instructions carefully to know which platform to use when. For more information about the difference between the two platforms, see .Time: A 90-minute ESRI training course on data management.
Learning Objectives: You will learn how to:
Download and extract GIS data.
Evaluate data quality using metadata, geography previews, and attribute tables.
Create a geodatabase and feature datasets.
Import data into a geodatabase and organize it into feature classes.
Share your geodatabase and project files.
Tasks:
Complete the ESRI Training Course:
Access and complete the ESRI training course titled Getting Started with Data Management.
Obtain the course certificate and save it as a PDF named YourLastName_Certificate_MapAssignment2.pdf.
ESRI Course: Getting Started with Data Management
The first part of this exercise is an ESRI training course titled .
If you are a JSU student working in the remote connection, you MUST access the course link in a browser you have opened INSIDE the remote connection, not on your own computer. You will download data during the course, and if the data is downloaded to your own computer you will not be able to use it in ArcGIS Pro in the remote connection.
1. Click the course link above to go to the course. When you arrive at the course, click Sign In and enter your account details to sign in.
If you are a JSU student, you MUST use your JSU GIS account. Your professor will not be able to keep track of your work or give you credit for it if you use any other kind of ArcGIS account.
2. After signing in, you will return to the same page, but the Sign In button will be replaced with Launch Course. Click it.
You will be prompted to select which version of ArcGIS Pro you are using.
3. To find which version you have installed, open ArcGIS Pro and sign in if necessary. Click Settings in the bottom-left hand corner and note which version number appears in the About ArcGIS Pro section.
4. Back on ESRI.com, select the appropriate version to begin the course. (If your version number is higher than any of the available options, select the most recent version offered).
Before moving to the course activities, you will have to download the course data on the Overview page. The data is downloaded in the form of an .exe file which you run to install the data in a folder of your choice.
5. Download the data and run the installer.
If you are prompted to create the destination directory, click Yes.
6. After you have successfully installed the data, click Start to move on.
This course has two main topics with multiple activities under each which need to be completed in order. Some of the activities are readings or videos, while others are exercises. The last activity in each topic is a quiz, which you must pass to move on. The quizzes cover all the material within the topic, so be sure to read and watch everything carefully and work through every step of the exercises.
Any activities that require you to use ArcGIS Pro and/or ArcGIS Online are labeled EXERCISE, while other activities are usually readings or videos.
7. Work your way through the course to its conclusion.
In the final exercise, Use ArcGIS to create, store, and share GIS data, you may run into an error in step 5e. The course instructs you to publish an ArcGIS Online layer named Nutrino Vendors, but ArcGIS Online does not allow file names to be duplicated within your organization. If someone else in your organization has already taken this course, it is likely that the name is already taken.
8. To get around this issue, simply add an underscore and your name or something else unique to the file name before clicking Publish.
After you successfully complete the course, you will be taken to the Conclusion page.
9. The deliverable for this section of the exercise will be the course certificate, so click Go to My Learningto find it.
On the My Learning Activity page, you will see all the ESRI training courses you have completed, with the most recent one at the top of the list.
10. Click View Certificate to see your course certificate. Download it and name the file YourLastName_Certificate_Lab2.pdf.
If you are a JSU student working in the remote connection, remember to select a location on the local C: drive when you download your course certificate.
11. You can now close all browser tabs and instances of ArcGIS Pro that you were using for the ESRI training course. The second part of this exercise is entirely separate and does not involve any of that data.
Submission Instructions
Deliverables: You will submit a single zip file named “YourLastName_Lab2” containing:
The PDF course certificate from the ESRI training course.
The filenames must be “YourLastName_Certificate_MapAssignment2.pdf”
Submit a 1-2 page reflection on how directors and cinematographers shape meaning in film using cinematography. Use Spike Lee’s School Daz (1987). Then analyze how cinematography works in TWO scenes.
The following question should help frame your response:
What shots and angles do directors and their cinematographers choose and why? Also, be sure to write it in APA format. Double-space every assignment. Treat reflections as if they were short essays. You’re not writing a review of these films, therefore do not share how these films impressed you; don’t refer to the “gorgeous cinematography” or “incredible acting.” Avoid a casual, chatty, gossipy tone. Do not use “I” or “you.” Do not use terms like “personally,” “I think,” “I feel.” Use sharp topic sentences to start your paragraphs.