Assignment 9: Big Data Paper 2ΒΆ

This is your second report.

Turn in a complete first draft. Our Writing Fellow will review the papers and give suggestions.

You must turn in a first draft to get a grade on the paper.

The goal for the paper will be take some of the big data analysis techniques we learned, and apply them to learn something new.

Do not talk about what you could do. Actually do it. This has been the most frequent mistake made in the years past. Don’t say “From this, we could determine what players we need to cut from our team.” Instead say, “Because of x, y, and z, we should cut Bob, Fred, and George.”

The final paper should have the following parts:

  • Introduction
    • Because of the nature of this report, the main topic will be the processing of the data and its analysis. You may have one analysis on football and another analysis on smoking in this report. Or you could do both on football. Your goal is to show the reader what you can do with the data. Write your introduction accordingly.
  • Text Processing
    • Search up something out of the text files.
    • Create something new. Don’t just re-create what we did with the name processing. At the very least, compare name trends in different states.
    • Describe what you are doing for processing, and how you are doing it.
    • Talk very specifically about the results.
    • If you want, you can feed this data into the graph and/or pivot table.
  • Graph
    • Graph the data.
    • Label your x and y axis. Give the graph a title.
    • Describe in detail what this graph is showing. Don’t just graph some random thing. Graph data that is informative.
    • Then describe why it matters, and what exactly you can derive from that data.
  • Pivot Table
    • Use a pivot table.
    • Make one or more pivot tables that inform the reader.
    • Specify how you created the table. Where you got the data from.
    • Tell why the data you are showing matters and what you can do with it.
    • Create a pivot table that shows the power of what a pivot table can do. Don’t just create a pivot table that is a recreation of the original table. Part of the purpose here is to show the user what a pivot table can do.
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Also - Upload your supporting Excel files.
  • The paper should have 1,000 words or more.