7CS512 Identify and critically evaluate the key requirements for effective data management, analysis and presentation to meet users` needs.

7CS512 Business Analytics Assignment, School of Computing and Mathematics - University of Derby, UK

Assignment Title - Portfolio

Learning Outcomes -

1. Identify and critically evaluate the key requirements for effective data management, analysis and presentation to meet users` needs.

2. Develop a small management information reporting system that meets the users` needs using a prototyping / Agile approach in the SAS programming environment.

Tasks -This module encompasses three assessment tasks as follows.

Research Presentation - You are required to work in pairs to research a SAS Proc procedure and should make a presentation in class.

Story Telling Report - You will be provided with a raw dataset. Using the tools of your choice, you are required to analyse the data and present a short descriptive report about the dataset.

SAS based MIS - individually, you will design, construct and demonstrate a small SAS-based Management Information System (MIS) along with a written report.

Task 1: Research Presentation

You will work in pairs for this research task. You are required to choose and research a SAS Proc procedure which can be used for data analytics. The procedure you choose CANNOT be a simple Proc step (such as Proc MEANS), this should include complex analytics techniques such as prediction modelling, descriptive modelling etc. You must confirm your chosen procedure with your tutor before starting your research. Student pairs cannot work on the same topics, so the topics will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. The topics for Task 1 can include but not limited to the following.

Proc ARIMA.

Proc AUTOREG.

Proc ROBUSTREG.

Proc CLUSTER.

Proc FASTCLUS.

Proc ANOVA.

Proc CANCORR.

This task has a primary objective of sharing knowledge among the peers. The knowledge you acquire from this task would be useful when developing your MIS system for Task 3.