Discussion 1. How do you describe the importance of data in ana.docx
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The document discusses the crucial role of data in analytics, posing several questions about its definition, sources, and the characteristics of analytics-ready data. It also includes an exercise instructing participants to access a U.S. government data portal to explore a topic of interest, download relevant data, and create visualizations. Participants are required to document their work with an APA cover page and references.
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Discussion 1. How do you describe the importance of data in ana.docx
- 1. Discussion: 1. How do you describe the importance of data in analytics? Can we think of analytics without data? Explain. 2. Considering the new and broad definition of business analytics, what are the main inputs and outputs to the analytics continuum? 3. Where do the data for business analytics come from? What are the sources and the nature of those incoming data? 4. What are the most common metrics that make for analytics- ready data? Exercise: 12: Go to data.gov—a U.S. government–sponsored data portal that has a very large number of data sets on a wide variety of topics ranging from healthcare to education, climate to public safety. Pick a topic that you are most passionate about. Go through the topic- specific information and explanation provided on the site. Explore the possibilities of downloading the data, and use your favorite data visualization tool to create your own meaningful information and visualizations. Be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.