Assignment:
Your organization has amassed two years of sales data from its brick-and-mortar and web channels. Management has no idea how to make sense of this yet untapped asset and has asked for your help. As a budding data scientist, you will give them your insights.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation (or the equivalent) complete with a handout that together address the following:
1. Present the concept that patterns may exist in the data that are waiting to be discovered.
2. Discuss possible insights that analyzing the mass of data might reveal.
3. Compare and contrast the results of using pattern discovery and a traditional BI analytics dashboard.
4. Defend your idea of data visualization as a rapid, yet effective, approach to finding patterns of interest. Why are we humans especially well-suited to using visualization?
5. Present and explain some successful data visualization projects conducted by others.
You should write in the third person for this assignment, and your slideshow should meet the following requirements:
Include at least 10 slides
Cite at least one academic source from the CSU-Global Library databases
Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
Your handout should meet the following requirements:
Be no more than two pages in length
Cite at least one academic source from the CSU-Global Library databases