Project Two Guidelines and Rubric

Scenario

You are a data analyst for a basketball team. You have found a large set of historical data, and are working to analyze and find patterns in the data set. The coach of the team and your management have requested that you perform several hypothesis tests to find the statistical significance of the claims that are being made about your team. This analysis will provide evidence to validate critical claims and get statistically valid findings that will help make key decisions to make the team better in upcoming seasons. You will use the Python programming language to perform statistical analysis and will also need to present a report of your findings to the team’s management. Since the managers are not data analysts, you will need to interpret your findings and describe their practical implications. The managers will use your report to find areas where the team can improve its performance.

Note: This data set has been “cleaned” for the purposes of this assignment.

Reference

FiveThirtyEight. (April 26, 2019). FiveThirtyEight NBA Elo dataset. Kaggle. Retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight/fivethirtyeight-nba-elo-dataset/

Directions

For this project, you will submit the Python script you used to make your calculations and a summary report explaining your findings.

1. Python      Script: To complete the tasks listed below, open the Project Two      Jupyter Notebook link in the Assignment Information module. Your project      contains the NBA data set and a Jupyter Notebook with your Python scripts.      In the notebook, you will find step-by-step instructions and code blocks      that will help you complete the following tasks:
   • Hypothesis       tests for a population parameter
     • Hypothesis        tests for a population mean
     • Hypothesis        test for a population proportion
   • Hypothesis       test for the difference between two population parameters
     • Hypothesis        test for difference between two population means
2. Summary      Report: Once you have completed all the steps in your Python      script, you will create a summary report to present your findings. Use the      provided template to create your report. You must complete each of      the following sections:
   • Introduction:       Set the context for your scenario and the analyses you will be       performing.
   • Hypothesis       tests for the population mean: Discuss all steps of the hypothesis       tests and interpret your results.
   • Hypothesis       test for the population proportion: Discuss all steps of the hypothesis       test and interpret your results.
   • Hypothesis       test for the difference between two population means: Discuss all       steps of the hypothesis test and interpret your results.
   • Conclusion:       Summarize your findings and explain their practical implications.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Python Script
C:UserskinghDownloadsProject Two Jupyter Script.html

Summary Report Zip File
Use the provided template to create your summary report. The template contains guiding questions to help you complete each section. Be sure to remove these questions before submitting your report. Your summary report should be submitted as a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. It should include an APA-style cover page and APA citations for any sources used. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

 Case Study 5.2: California’s High-Speed Rail Project

A goal of the Obama administration has been to promote high-speed rail across the most populous and geographically-dispersed states in the United States. The idea is to adopt more energy-saving initiatives while also helping to improve state’s infrastructure.  It is with this in mind that the Federal Government made billions available to various states in the 2008–2010 budget cycles.  After the Fall, 2010 elections, several states that had elected Republican governors refused the grants, suspicious that this seed money would not be sufficient to pay for what they viewed as unnecessary construction based on over-optimistic expectations of the need for and use of high-speed rail.  One of the states that accepted the money and has moved forward strongly into high-speed rail has been California, which has already begun work on a 65-mile section in the middle of the state, earning the derisive nickname, the “train to nowhere.”  This case details the state’s projections regarding the need for high-speed rail, against the views of infrastructure experts and critics who charge that for a state that is already in a severe budget crisis, this is just the sort of project that makes no sense economically or demographically.

Questions

1. Assess the benefits and drawbacks of the high-speed rail project. In your opinion, do benefits outweigh drawbacks, or vice versa? Why? Justify your answer.
2. What are the implications of starting a project based on tenuous projections that may or may not come true 10 years from now?
3. Could you justify the California high-speed rail project from the perspective of a massive public works initiative? In other words, what other factors enter into the decision of whether to pursue a high-speed rail project? Why are they important?

 Text-

Title: Project Management

ISBN: 9780134730332

Authors: Pinto

Publisher: Pearson

Edition: 5TH 19

 Purpose 

Discuss barriers to practice as an APN in one’s state from both a state and national perspective.  Research methods to influence policy change from various forms of competition, state legislative and executive branches of government and interest groups. 

Activity Learning Outcomes 

Through this discussion, the student will demonstrate the ability to: 

1. Discuss the history of policy development and policy making in nursing (CO1) 
2. Examine different types of policy and their relationships to healthcare policy (CO1) 
3. Explain current barriers to practice for advanced practice nurses (CO2) 
4. Discuss health policy and methods of lifting barriers to practice (CO2) 

Using the readings from this week as well as outside reliable resources to: 

1. Identify and describe practice barriers for APNs in your state and discuss these barriers on a state and national level. 
2. Identify forms of competition on the state and national level that interfere with APN’s ability to practice independently. 
3. Identify the specific lawmakers by name at the state level (i.e., key members of the state’s legislative branch and executive branch of government) 
4. Discuss interest groups that exist at the state and national levels that influence APN policy. 
5. Discuss methods used to influence change in policy in forms of competition, state legislative and executive branches of government and interest groups. 
6. A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.

As a continuation of our course project due in Unit VII (a Permit by Rule (PBR) Evaluation for Painting Operation Facility), complete the next section—VOC and ES Content per Unit—of your proposal by following the instructions carefully, and then submit your continued draft of your evaluation document into Blackboard for grading. 

1. Closely read the required reading assignment from the textbook and the unit lesson in the study guide, and consider reading the suggested reading. 
2. Open your proposal draft from Unit II, and make any improvements to your draft using your professor’s feedback from the Unit II Mini Project. 
3. Open the Unit III Study Guide, and review the calculations demonstrated and explained (specifically regarding VOC and ES weights per gallon and per unit for our given scenario data). Be sure to use the scenario data instead of the data used in the study guide examples. 
4. Make your Unit III work the second level 1 heading, titled “VOC and ES Content per Unit.” Describe the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of VOCs in the work system while pulling from the textbook as well as any other relevant sources that are presented in the unit lesson in the study guide. In your description of the EHS implications of the system, be sure to discuss the natural and anthropomorphic variables causally related to indoor air pollution. Perform and present (not hand-written, but neatly typed) the calculations for both the VOC and ES values (in lbs) in this section of your project. 
5. In your abstract section (page 2 of the document), write one or two sentences that reflect your work for this unit. Remember that we are adding one sentence per unit to reflect our work as we go, with the final abstract length being about 8 to 10 sentences long. 

Your narrative and calculations for the VOC and ES content per unit must be presented in at least 200 words (minimum). You are required to use at least one outside source, which may be your textbook. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

Reply must be at least 200-300 words. For each thread, you must support your assertions with at least 2 citations from sources such as your textbook, peer-reviewed journal articles, and the Bible. 

Textbook: Vito, G. F., & Higgins, G. E. (2015). Practical program evaluation for criminal justice. Waltham, MA: Elsevier. ISBN: 9781455777709.

Program Process and Implementation

            Change can take place in many phases and in many aspects of life. A prime example of constant changing is the changes that occur within communities. Communities constantly undergo an array of changes to their way of operating and often times in efforts to achieve a more modern and family friendly environment which can promote growth from the family aspect as well as the business aspect. When looking at a community plan there are timelines that dictate operations and time frame of which things can occur. Coordinating resources are done to ensure the overall plan can be achieved. Tracking progress can be an essential tool to ensure resources are being implemented in accordance with the plan. Using tracking systems, noting successes, and documenting obstacles is a positive to ensure stakeholders and support for the project remains high (Sharma, Chuang, Byrd-Williams, Vandewater, Butte, Hoelscher, 2019).

            As the program or plan progresses, the data collected, and accomplishments achieved should be collected and shared to maximize time contributed to the project and the expertise gathered. Often times anonymity is involved in projects and community projects to ensure attention is on the overall goal and not on individuality. There can still be ample data sharing and community involvement without giving out specific information that harms the integrity of remaining anonymous. The biggest reason for sharing with the community and the public is for the constant source of feedback to ensure the project is headed in the right direction; there is also the benefit of others using the project to further their own initiatives which can be beneficial for everyone involved (Sharma, Chuang, Byrd-Williams, Vandewater, Butte, Hoelscher, 2019).

Once the project is nearing completion, look towards the achievements that have occurred along the way and ensure to congratulate everyone involved with the hard work and acknowledge the time and effort being put forth to achieve a community goal. This is also the prime opportunity to ensure the entirety of the plan was followed through and completed as instructed and to reflect on what can be done in the future and what could be done differently to ensure a higher level of efficiency (Lok, Hung, Walsh, Wang, Crawford, 2005).

Program Evaluation

            Evaluation is the last phase in the process of program implementation and program effectiveness. Evaluation is an essential step to take but can often be unknowingly woven into every step you’ve taken to get this far without realizing it. Many communities look back to examine and evaluate all of the efforts put into their plan for community improvement to determine if the effort and time was worth the cost. This evaluation is an important step to complete to finish the process (Sharma, Chuang, Byrd-Williams, Vandewater, Butte, Hoelscher, 2019).

Two key factors to determining success while evaluating is defining the criteria for success and establishing the measure of impact. Using these two aspects of definitions of success allows for an objective viewpoint on the totality of the outcome and the process itself. Evaluations should be able to be reflected throughout the process and each phase of change or progress through the plan. Defining what success means can take the form of what success looks like to the community and to those directly involved (Lok, Hung, Walsh, Wang, Crawford, 2005)

By examining all of the data and considering what was reasonable in terms of the time and resources allocated to the project, one can then note the obstacles to success and what policies need to be implemented or which policies were obstructing the pathway to change and success. Change is a constant in nearly all aspects of life and it is an annual process that is on a continuum. Examining, reassessing, and evaluating the end results and the effects of the overall project is key to future success and sustaining the current success that has been achieved (Lok, Hung, Walsh, Wang, Crawford, 2005)