After the completion of IDL2 preliminary and final assignments, you will have developed a memorandum for executives in your company. This memorandum will make the case for all new hires to be proficient in probability and statistics, or data literate because of its importance to your business. For the full assignment problem statement see IDL 2 Final – Memorandum. The work you will complete for the preliminary part of the second assignment is an analysis of the assignment data and a determination of how to use these data to make your case. Details are below in Data Analysis.
REQUIRED READING/VIEWING
The following reading/viewing will provide you with the input you need to successfully complete this assignment.
- Executives
Download Executivesby House, Layton, Livingston & Moseley from The Engineering Communication Manual. This brief chapter introduces how to effectively communicate with Executives. - Figures and Charts (Links to an external site.) on the UNC Writing Center Tips and Tools website. For the assignment, read starting at “Using Figures” through to the end of the document.
- Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the age of with: The culture catalyst (Links to an external site.) by Tim Smith, Ben Stiller, Jim Guszcza, and Tom Davenport from Deloitte Insights. This document contains the data you will use as evidence for your argument that your division will be more profitable if employees are proficient in statistics and probability. Read the assignment instruction prior to reading this. (It is a document that Deloitte makes publicly available.)
DATA ANALYSIS
Answering the questions below is intended to provide you with an understanding of the data in the provided document and space to think about how it can be used to support the argument you are required to make with it for the final phase of this assignment. You will share what you found in small teams during the workshop, where you will help each other hone your thinking on what this data is, tells you, and its utility for making the argument you will make for the final phase of this work. For answers that require more than one or two words or numbers, you must use your own words. Your answers will be presented to your classmates during the workshop (or for those who are asynchronous, on your own time.)
No quotations and No plagiarism – Quotations are rarely used in professional engineering and computer science writing; do not get in the habit of doing this. The words in your document must represent your own thinking based on the information you have gathered. Review the Plagiarism page if you are unclear on what constitutes plagiarism or are from a region of the world that may think about it differently.
I have the questions listed below. However, to answer them use the provided template Download provided template. This will provide a standard organization to your answers to facilitate your workshop discussions.
Questions to be answered about Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the age of with: The culture catalyst (Links to an external site.)
What do you know about the data that is used to develop the findings and inferences that are being presented in this document?
- What is the size of the sample?
- Who were the participants sampled? (What types of organizational roles did they have?)
- What do you know about the organizations the participants came from?
- How were the data collected?
- What is the margin of error for these data?
- What is the confidence level?
Using the answers from above
- How would you identify the population the sample in these data intended to represent?
- How do the sample and population described relate to the hypothetical company you work for?
Go through the document and highlight any place that the data is presented in the text. Then identify the three to five points that are most important to the argument you will have to make and briefly describe how they can be used in your argument
There are 6 figures in the document, identify briefly what each one tells you. Then identify the two you think are most important to supporting the argument you will be making in the memorandum.
ASSIGNMENT DELIVERABLE
Complete the attached document.
Data review use in the workshop – Your data analysis answers will be used during the workshop held on the day it is due. See details on the workshop for how you will use your document.
For those in the online section it is your responsibility your responsibility to Find a group to work with using the IDL2 workshop groups on the People tab of your course Canvas website prior to the workshop.
Revising and editing, and proofreading: While this submittal is a review and discussion of data, you are still expected to complete a grammar and spelling check before uploading your document to the assignment. If you cannot read your document during the workshop it will be difficult for you to participate.
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