Portfolio Milestone – Intro to Business Intelligence

Data Analysis of United States Data

If you selected Option 1 to complete for your Portfolio Milestone in Module 2, be sure to complete this milestone. Review the background information for Option 1 of the Portfolio Project in Module 8.  Also, you should incorporate any feedback given by your faculty member in the Module 2 Portfolio Milestone assignment.

For the Module 5 Portfolio Milestone assignment, you are to create a minimum of 4 business questions which, if answered, will solve the business problem. You are to explain why you selected those specific business questions. In addition, you are to create the alternate and null hypotheses for each business question. The business questions and hypotheses will become the primary framework for your Portfolio Project due in Module 8. Finally, you discuss any concerns you have in completing this assignment.

In this assignment, you are to expand on your deliverables from Module 2 by including your approach for conducting the analysis in the Portfolio Project in Module 8. Your approach should include which statistical tests you intend to conduct and why. How will these tests answer the business questions and prove or disprove your hypotheses? Also, your approach should include which visualizations you intend to use and why. Why are these visualizations the best formats for communicating the story the data is telling us?

Deliverables for this assignment are:

• Description of the business problem including the organization’s strategic goals (incorporating any feedback from your instructor).
• Description of the variables in the SAS dataset created in Module 2 (incorporating any feedback from your instructor)
• List, at a minimum, 4 business questions. Justify how these business questions will solve the business problem.
• List the alternate and null hypotheses for each business question. Incorporate any feedback from your instructor
• List the statistical tests you intend to use and why.
• List the visualizations you intend to use and why.
• Describe concerns in completing the Portfolio Project.

Your Milestone assignment should be four to five pages in length, excluding your cover and references page, and formatted according to APA requirements.