At the end of this assignment the students will be able to address real life situations (depending on the topic chosen by the students) where they could either develop BI systems, propose solutions in Business Intelligence adoption, develop strategies for data mining and help organization in their data mining use and adoption.
The students will be required to fulfil the requirements as follows.
- Choose their own topic for the project with the lecturer directions
- Investigate the business where they will investigate their project
- Identify the business needs for BI.
- Identify the best BI technique to introduce to their project
- Familiarise with the relationship of Data Mining (DM) to BI
- Familiarise with the different DM techniques
- Select the best DM strategy for their project and link it to their project’s BI adoption
- Develop a professional Business Report
The students will be required to submit the following at the end of the semester
1. A project report of no more than 6000 words (Technical Report)
You are to discuss the project title with the lecturer in order to make sure that you will be able to finish your project on time and in order to ensure that the topic and the work do cover the unit’s requirement. The choice of the topic should encompass areas in Business Intelligence use, adoption, techniques, implementation etc. In addition, a project might also address Data mining and its use and techniques. Finally, projects might address the relationships between BI and DM and how they work together (relevant to the selected business objective). The objective from the project is to identify a case question that your project addresses and work during the semester to investigate on how you fulfil the aim of the project.
The focus of your assignment project this semester will be to implement BI and/or Data mining in a real-life situation.
- 6000-word assignment. The technical document should reflect the work done to address the
project’s questions, and aligned with the learning materials presented in classes (lectures & Tutorials)
- The deliverable must include the followings
Week 12 during the lecture hours
Marking Criteria
Your work will be assessed based on the successful completion of the components as follows.
| Introduction | Subject Knowledge | Supporting Material | Report Presentation | |
| High Distinction | Introduction written | The deliverable | All relevant | Excellent |
| to an excellent level, | demonstrated | information was | presentation of | |
| provides an | knowledge of the | Obtained and all | report. It was well | |
| exceptional | previous units by | information sources | organised and clearly | |
| understanding of the | integrating major | were valid. Analysis | written. The | |
| situation | and | and design | underlying logic was | |
| minor concepts into | considerations were | clearly articulated | ||
| the solution | well supported by | and easy to follow. | ||
| the | Words were chosen | |||
| information | that precisely | |||
| expressed the | ||||
| intended meaning | ||||
| and supported reader | ||||
| comprehension. | ||||
| Diagrams or analyses | ||||
| enhanced and | ||||
| clarified presentation | ||||
| of ideas. No | ||||
| grammatical or | ||||
| spelling error | ||||
| Distinction | Introduction written | The deliverable | Good information | Good presentation of |
| to a good level, | demonstrated | was obtained and | report. It was | |
| provides a good | knowledge of the | most information | organised and clearly | |
| understanding of the | previous units by | sources were valid. | written for the most | |
| situation | integrating major | Analysis and design | part. The underlying | |
| concepts into the | considerations were | logic was articulated | ||
| solution | mostly supported by | and but some can be | ||
| the information | difficult to follow. | |||
| Diagrams or analyses | ||||
| were consistent with | ||||
| the idea. Minor | ||||
| grammatical or | ||||
| spelling error | ||||
| Credit | Introduction written | The deliverable | Sufficient | Competent |
| to a competent level, | demonstrated some | information was | presentation of | |
| sufficient situation | knowledge of the | obtained and some | report. It was | |
| analysis was | previous units by | sources were valid. | somewhat organised | |
| provided | integrating some | Analysis and design | in most parts. The | |
| concepts into the | considerations were | logic was difficult to | ||
| solution but some | mostly supported by | follow. Diagrams or | ||
| are irrelevant | the information | analyses were | ||
| somewhat irrelevant. | ||||
| Some grammatical or | ||||
| spelling error | ||||
| Pass | Introduction written | The deliverable | Insufficient | Poor presentation of |
| poorly | demonstrated very | information was | report. The | |
| little knowledge of | obtained and/or | deliverable lacked | ||
| the previous units | sources lack validity. | overall organization. | ||
| Analysis and design | The reader had to | |||
| considerations were | make considerable | |||
| not supported by the | effort to understand | |||
| information collected | the underlying logic | |||
| and flow of ideas. | ||||
| Diagrams were | ||||
| absent or | ||||
| inconsistent with the | ||||
| text. |
| Grammatical and spelling errors made it difficult for the reader to interpret the text in places. | ||||
| Fail | No introduction | The deliverable did | Very little | Very poor |
| present | not | information was | presentation of the | |
| demonstrate | provided and none of | report. General | ||
| knowledge of | the sources were | structure was not | ||
| the previous units | valid. Analysis and | present and a lot of | ||
| design considerations | grammatical and | |||
| were not supported | spelling errors. No | |||
| by the information | diagrams present or | |||
| collected | not relevant to the | |||
| idea. |
