Business Intelligence Assignment
BI Solution Development and Report
In the BI practicals, we saw how the Watson Analytics tools interact with data sources to produce BI dashboards. This practical assignment requires you to demonstrate your understanding of BI and apply the IBM Watson Analytics skills.
This group assignment topic will be on sports analytics. As a sports analyst, your main task is to apply Watson Analytics and develop innovative sports analytics with regards to a type of sport of your choice (e.g. cricket, basketball, soccer, badminton, F1, tennis, etc), and depict insightful info about the sport, such as winners' record vs venue, players' performance by venue, fans' demographics over time, etc. You may apply either real-world or artificial dataset to illustrate your approach (the different datasets can be combined too).
Tasks:
1. Develop the relevant BI dashboards, predictive models and social media analytics using IBM Watson Analytics tool.
2. Justify why these BI solutions could provide insights and why those attributes are laid out in the fashion you proposed (feel free to include all other relevant justifications).
Note: To ensure that you discuss task (2) properly, you must include visual samples of the reports you produce (i.e. the screenshots of the BI report/dashboard must be presented and explained in the written report; use ‘Snipping tool'), and also include any assumptions that you may have made.
3. The BI report should include: 1) BI dashboards screenshots and commentary, 2) predictive models, 3) social media findings, 4) overall findings and recommendations, 5) objectives and benefits of your BI solution, etc. Feel free to make reasonable assumptions or refine the data as needed. You may create your own artificial datasets. Real-world dataset is not compulsory.
NOTE:
• You MUST produce the actual visuals in IBM Watson Analytics.
• If you think the best presentation above is to use, say, only a pie chart, then discuss using a pie chart and indicate what the pie chart would show, why you picked the pie chart, and so on.
• It may be useful to try with various dashboards (i.e. combinations of presentations) before rushing to conclusion.
Report guidelines
1. The body of the report should contain ‘Table of Content', logically organised sections, and ‘List of references'.
2. The contribution of each team member must be clearly stated on the Table of Content. E.g. Introduction (done by Alex Smith).
3. You may include figures, diagrams, tables and charts, etc.
4. For this practical assignment, the length of the assignment includes everything (e.g. Table of content and References list).