DATA4200 In-Class Group Data Mining Exercise Assessment 1 Answer

Assessment 1 Information

Your Task

• Face-to-Face Students: Complete this task in an online zoom webinar at your usual class time in Week 6. The zoom link will be provided to you a few weeks beforehand.
• Online Students: Complete this task in your usual online webinar in Week 6.

Assessment Description

• Business Problem: Suppose that you are a data analyst for the Police department in Boston, USA. You have been asked to start cleaning and analysing subgroups of crime statistics in your city.
• Data sets: Access the following excel files on the KBS portal: Boston_Crimes.csv

Offense_codes.xlsx

• Recall that we first saw this data set in Week 5.
• The group activity in Week 6 will consist of each group submitting a word document and excel file on MyKBS in 2.5 hours with:
  • Part A: A quick review of theory from weeks 1-5 (200 words)
  • Part B: Cleaning, interpreting and visualising data (using excel or SQL and/or Tableau) and writing up your interpretation as a group (250 words)

Assessment Instructions

• Form groups of 3-4 to complete the exercise before class
• All students will be given 2.5 hours in an online zoom session in Week 6 during your class time to complete this activity
• Face-to-face students will be sent a zoom link for the class in Week 4 (in week 6 they do not attend campus but come online)
• The activity is open book
• You will need access to excel or SQL and Tableau and a computer in class to complete this activity
• To prepare for this activity review lectures 1-5 and practice SQL and excel examples
• At the beginning of your online class your lecturer will email you Part A and B questions in a word document to complete as a group (in break out groups using screen share so the whole group can work on one document)
• Supporting excel data can be submitted via an excel file
• All students must be online, contribute and have their camera on
• Any visualisations can be pasted into the word document
• Once the group has completed the questions, and before 2.5 hours are up, one group member only needs to:
  • Submit the word document into a Turnitin drop box on MyKBS (in assessment table)
  • Submit their supporting excel file into an excel drop box on MyKBS (in assessment table).