Executive Connection Big Data

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No Plagiarism and no grammar mistakes with a minimum of 2 pages of content 

The course is  Big data Analysis  and role i work is Software Development Engineer in Test at Sams club.

  1. At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own careers. 
    Assignment:
    Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 
    Requirements:

    • Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.
    • Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.
    • Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.
    • Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 
    • You should not provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Week 5 Assignment: Presentation Final Outline, Description of Visuals, and References

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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook: Chapter 3, 6, 7
  • Lesson 1, 2
  • Link (Word doc): Outline TemplatePreview the document
  • Minimum of 4 scholarly sources

Instructions
For the final outline, continue conducting research for your presentation, locating specific scholarly sources to include on your references page.

Include and submit the following components:

  • Title page (title of speech, name of presenter, audience prepared for – school or institution, date)
    • You can use this information to create your first slide in PowerPoint.
  • General goal, specific goal, thesis statement, introduction paragraph (written out), body in outline format using complete sentences, summary paragraph (written out) (approximately 4 pages)
  • Visuals and their description plan (1-2 pages)
    • This section should include a minimum of 5 images you will use for your PowerPoint slides with a description of how and why you will be using each image. Paste the images onto the document (Do not simply provide a URL for each image).
  • Reference page with minimum of 4 authoritative, outside scholarly sources
    • These sources can include the sources referenced during Weeks 2 and 3.
    • Anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable.
    • References must be written in APA format with hanging indents, in alphabetical order, and with everything double spaced.
    • The word references should be centered.
    • Include copyrighted image resources in this list.
    • You can copy and paste this to use as the last slide in your PowerPoint.

Presentation Note: Do not copy and paste your table of contents, final outline, or visuals description plan into your PowerPoint slides. Your speech slides must be created as a meaningful presentation.

  • Use a few bullets for each slide with one phrase or one sentence for each bullet.
  • Do not put any paragraphs into the slides.

Any questions about this assignment may be discussed in the Course Q & A Forum.

Optional: Team Editing
This is not required or graded. Complete the following steps for team support on your outline. This is not a group project:

  • Early in the week (Day 1, 2, or 3), post in your group homepage a completed first or second outline draft with your team to ask for feedback. If you do not share I added this your first draft early in the week, you cannot expect other people to have time to review it for you. Provide good concrete constructive comments.
  • During the week (Days 1-5), respond to team members who have asked for your suggestions, comments, and corrections on their outlines. Try to respond as early as you can, or at least within 2 days. If you can’t review an outline or provide any comment within 2 days of receiving a team member’s outline, notify your team member about when to expect your comments. Day 5 should be your latest date to respond to other people, or Day 6 for emergency last-minute reviews. Remember that other people need time to use your ideas and revise their outlines!
  • Review the suggestions, comments, and corrections that you receive from your team and incorporate the best ideas into your first draft outline.
  • Save the end of your week (Days 6 and 7) for revising and updating your own outline and preparing the final outline version, completing the description of visuals (PowerPoint images plan) page, and checking the references page.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 3-4 pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page (minimum of 4 scholarly sources)

Grading

This activity will be graded based on W5 Presentation Outline Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 3

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

Assignment 4: The Anthropocene Epoch, Human Impacts

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The Anthropocene: Human Impacts on the Environment

Introduction

In this assignment, you will open the link below and participate in a “Click and Learn” Activity. 

http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/anthropocene/

You may begin by clicking on each impact topic in the left vertical menu. A description of man’s influence or impact on each category is explained.

Next, hover around on the diagram itself, and click to see what changes will occur.  After each click, a graph will show at the bottom of the screen.  The more diagram clicks, the greater the number of human changes are added, and the more graphs show at the bottom.

Assignment:

Select 3 human impacts you are most interested in learning about.

List the following information for how each impact affects ecosystems:

a. Describe how the human impact you selected affects the ecosystem.

b. Summarize some of the quantitative (graph) data that provide evidence of humans’ impact on the ecosystem.

c. Describe specific types of evidence people should look for in their own ecosystem to determine whether humans are changing the local environment.

d. Describe what you can do as an individual to limit your impact.

You may complete the assignment using these directions, or download the word document attached, which has the same directions.  

Assignment submission must be a single document, either in word (.doc, .docx) or pdf format. You may add your work to the bottom of the assignment document, or create your own.

Deliverable 5- Special Focus on Business-to-Business (B2B)

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Assignment Content

  1. Competency
    Apply management strategies to a business-to-business (B2B) salesforce.

    Student Success Criteria
    View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

    Scenario
    You are the regional sales manager for International Herb Express (IHE) which is a large, US-based spice & herbs supplier. IHE sells to other businesses that purchase bulk spices and spice blends for use in their end products. The primary customers are baking and soup mix corporations that sell to other businesses, for example, bakeries, restaurants, other food-service, and regional grocery chains. IHE is launching a new spice blend that reflects a more diverse cultural & ethnic flavor profile than IHE’s traditional offerings.
    The abridged marketing strategy for this new spice blend is to target both current customers, but also to reach new customers that are target regions with higher ethnic diversity and/or the more adventurous “foodies” market. The marketing efforts will focus on taste testing, sampling, and on-site promotion. IHE is launching this marketing plan to help create a product offering that is not as commodity-driven (as most spices and herbs are the same quality no matter where they are purchased) and can potentially offer higher profit margins.
    It is important to note that spices and other ingredients are raw goods and traded as commodities. The raw price for these goods changes on a day-to-day basis. Pricing is based on classic supply and demand, though nature is a key contributor to the supply–extreme weather as well as health of crops have a direct impact on the supply chain and access to the raw goods.

    Instructions
    As the year ends, the VP of Sales and Marketing asks you to review the current compensation program and to make a recommendation for the new year’s compensation program that will be presented to the full sales organization on a video conference at the end of the month. There are 8 members of the sales staff that are part of the compensation program.
    For the current year, the sales staff (eight sales regional managers) was paid a base salary ($42,000) and then received a commission on a quarterly basis (6.1%) for all net invoiced orders in their region. The highest paid sales person received total salary and commission of $133,500, and the lowest paid sales person was paid $48,100. The total salary and commission for the sales team is $625,750. This resulted in profit of $1,757,500.
    The company’s CFO was very happy with this program, but the VP of Sales & Marketing felt that the plan only focused on individual results. The VP felt that in order to encourage the sales staff to balance their efforts between the low-cost/high-volume items and the higher-margin new products, a new plan should reflect those goals. Both executives see the sales potential growing for the business. Both also want to begin “grooming” any current sales staff. Management wants to encourage current staff to be promoted or transferred to new opportunities. Management is aware of the growth expectation and they want the strongest team to be in place in the best positions.
    You are to create a proposal that:

    • Outlines at least two compensation programs and then make a recommendation for which program would be more ideal.
    • Suggests a training program for regional sales managers to obtain leadership skills as well as reinforcing B2B skills that trainees can use to prepare for future promotional opportunities.
    • The training program may or may not be part of the compensation program. Identify and defend which approach you support.

QA Project 2

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Prepare a Test Automation Project using a web or mobile application  or API as your test object. Create a Test automation plan and copy the automation script into the test plan. Programming languages accepted: Java, Selenese, Ruby, Javascript

You must exhibit at least 2 of the following test automation techniques:

Object Oriented Techniques

Objects are created to modularize and reuse code

Test code is stored in objects

Component object design is used as opposed to page object design

Test data are stored in objects

Configurations and properties are stored in objects

Calls are made to the application and to APIs

Use of Data driven techniques

Create modular, reusable test libraries of functions

Create variables and arrays to store data

Create parameterized functions or methods to store data

Create file readers that pull in parameters from files (CSV, text files etc)

Abstract out the data from the test by externalizing the data

Add loops, conditions, create iterative tests that are data driven

Abstract out the UI locators from the tests by externalizing UI maps

Create global properties and configuration files

Use of keyword driven techniques

Create keyword driven libraries

ODBC/JDBC functions to read data directly from databases

Create spreadsheets of keywords: test operations, business operations

Create hierarchy of abstracted keyword spreadsheets

Build a Test Framework

Compatible with many test tools and common utilities (example: Selenium, WebDriver, Junit and Jmeter can all be called from common framework)

Abstracts away low level commands

Confidence Intervals Discussion Topic

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The B&K Real Estate Company sells homes and is currently serving the Southeast region. It has recently expanded to cover the Northeast states. The B&K realtors are excited to now cover the entire East Coast and are working to prepare their southern agents to expand their reach to the Northeast.

B&K has hired your company to analyze the Northeast home listing prices in order to give information to their agents about the mean listing price at 95% confidence. Your company offers two analysis packages: one based on a sample size of 100 listings, and another based on a sample size of 1,000 listings. Because there is an additional cost for data collection, your company charges more for the package with 1,000 listings than for the package with 100 listings.

Sample size of 100 listings:

  • 95% confidence interval for the mean of the Northeast house listing price has a margin of error of $25,000
  • Cost for service to B&K: $2,000

Sample size of 1,000 listings:

  • 95% confidence interval for the mean of the Northeast house listing price has a margin of error of $5,000
  • Cost for service to B&K: $10,000

The B&K management team does not understand the tradeoff between confidence level, sample size, and margin of error. B&K would like you to come back with your recommendation of the sample size that would provide the sales agents with the best understanding of northeast home prices at the lowest cost for service to B&K.

In other words, which option is preferable?

  • Spending more on data collection and having a smaller margin of error
  • Spending less on data collection and having a larger margin of error
  • Choosing an option somewhere in the middle

For your initial post:

  • Formulate a recommendation and write a confidence statement in the context of this scenario. For the purposes of writing your confidence statement, assume the sample mean house listing price is $310,000 for both packages. “I am [#] % confident the true mean . . . [in context].”
  • Explain the factors that went into your recommendation, including a discussion of the margin of error

ESSAY 4012

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International Terrorist – Essay Assignment

Select a terrorist group from the text (or another in which you can locate substantial information).Prepare an essay covering, in detail, the following:

(Be sure to address all items.)

  1. Name of the Terrorist Organization
  2. Briefly describe the nature of the organization
  3. Country of Origin
  4. History of Organization
  5. Structure of the Organization
  6. Affiliations with Other Organizations
  7. Typology (political, religious, or social [special interest])
  8. Characteristics of Members (Status, Education, Age, Gender)
  9. Objectives
  10. Tactics (bombings, armed attacks, arson, assassination, hostage taking, hijacking, WMDs, other [be specific and include examples)
  11. Targets
  12. Intended Impacts
  13. Any other information of interest.

REQUIREMENTS:

TEXT BOOK 

  • Your textbook should be referenced as follows:

ReferencesWhite, J. (2017). Terrorism and homeland security (9 ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

our paper must 4 pages (only). (Do not include the title page or reference page in your page count.)  (Points will be deducted for not meeting the minimum [4 full pages] or exceeding the page limit.)

  • Proofread your paper before submitting.
  • You must use your textbook and at least two (3) other scholarly articles to support your position/findings.
  • use an academic writing style.
  • reflect critical thinking.
  • include concrete examples/details and avoid generalities.
  • include a separate cover page.
    • include your name, the course, the title of assignment, and the date.
  • include a separate references page for sources used.
  • be typed.
  • be in Times New Roman, 12 point font, black.
  • be double-spaced.
  • be standard/proper English, spelling and grammar.
  • be written in your own words.
  • be written in the 3rd person.
  • The language should be impersonal, and should not include personal pronouns, emotional language or informal speech.

Human Relations 6

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Two questions.

  • Unit VI Study Guide
  • Chapter 9: Resolving Conflicts with Others
  • Chapter 14: Customer Satisfaction Skills

Unit VI Journal Open

  • Instructions

As a human resource manager, how would you deal constructively with complaints and anger from fellow employees, management, and customers within an organization? Are these methods effective to resolve the issues? Explain and discuss.

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VI Reflection Paper Open

  • Instructions

As discussed in the unit lesson, resolving conflict in the workplace requires using interpersonal skills, management skills, and techniques. Interpersonal skills can consist of understanding individual differences, self-esteem, self-confidence, communication, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, cultural relations skills, motivation skills, customer service skills, ethical behavior skills, and stress management skills. Management skills focus on the type of management skill applied such as collaborating, accommodating, forcing, avoiding, and compromising. As a member of the workforce, you must be able to effectively resolve conflict, either with the use of interpersonal skills, management skills, or by applying the recommended ways of responding to tension in the workplace (e.g., overcoming defensiveness, accepting of the tension, and resolving the tension).

For your Unit VI Assignment, please reflect on your knowledge of resolving conflict that you have experienced or observed in the workplace. Please analyze what you have learned. Describe how your learned knowledge can be used. Also, identify how this information can be used to resolve conflict in the workplace in your current job or from a past incident you have experienced. What steps/methods were used in resolving the conflict?

Your reflection paper should be at least three pages in length, including an introduction, a body that supports your reflection, and a conclusion. Be sure to include a title page. The title page does not count toward the total page requirement.

Book Report: How To Make Your Content Interesting

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Any book report needs to be interesting for the readers to enjoy the information as well as stay for a longer duration. It is hard to get the attention of your readers especially when there are tons of options available to choose and read. To ensure your writing stands out and get the attention of the readers, you have to make it interesting and catchy. Keep the readers asking for more by inducing curiosity and make them indulge in your piece of book report. To make things appealing to your readers, including interesting facts related to the topic of your discussion make the readers find the interest and ask for more fun and interesting facts from your writing.

Writing a book report requires a certain set of skills and expertise. You have to make your book report stand out if you plan to grab the attention of readers and make them appreciate your work. Not everyone can write the way people online consume these days. For example, students are often wondering – can I write my book report online? You can get the help from professional writers who are experts in their field and have the skill set to write book reports. These experts can help you find the right tone along with the right presentation. You can get the best possible result for your book report from the experts who know this field.

Freelance writing is one of the most popular working options for students who want to make some extra money. But how to be a good professional in that? There are many ways suggested by the experts that can help you make your writing better and more interesting for the readers to enjoy. These tips will apply to any type of article you write no matter where you intend to publish them or use them. 

1. Include interesting facts: including interesting facts about the topic you are writing is one of the top ways you can share more with your readers and keep them hooked for more. Do more research on your topic and find out facts that most people will not know. You can also branch off to a subtopic or related topics to include some fun and interesting facts.

2. Write in a friendly yet professional tone: if you are writing professional book reports getting too friendly is something you should be careful about. Nevertheless, a friendly tone will help you connect better with your readers and make them feel connected to your writing. If you are not a professional writer, having a balance of friendliness and professional tone will be an issue. However, you can buy book reports online from professional writing websites that provide the option from professional writers.

3. Be creative: creativity is an aspect that will lift your writing to another level and make you a better writer overall. If you are creative and can think of ways to present your views apart from the obvious route, you are sure to get more readers and followers. No one enjoys a boring cliche style of expression which most are used to reading. Think of different metaphors and styles to express the same topic that many might discuss in your writing.

4. State your opinion: having an opinion about the topic you are writing about and stating it clearly is a great way to connect to your readers. However, you have to be extra careful not to be too strict while stating your opinion to avoid discrepancies with your readers. It is ideal to state your standpoint about a topic and try to support your opinion with facts and information. You should also discuss the other side of the coin to ensure readers do not feel forced into considering your view as the only explanation in your book report.

These 4 steps are proven and actionable for any type of writing you are planning to write. They will surely make your writing stand out and connect with your readers for a better experience.

Assign

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Assignment 2: Case Study 1 Part B: Onboarding and Performance 

Management

Worth up to 25 points and 25% of course grade

The purpose of the activity is for you to explain and evaluate different recruiting, selection, 

onboarding, and performance management methods. 

Assignment alignment with Course Competencies: 

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Recommend recruiting, selection and performance management

solu

tions or initiatives to 

address dynamic customer and stakeholder needs.

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Interpret HR recruiting, selection and performance management issues and challenges to 

develop strategic solutions and interventions. 

•

Critique recruiting, selection and performance m

anagement initiatives to ensure 

alignment with HR and organizational strategies. 

Deliverable: 

1.

Read the entire case study carefully and then respond to the seven Discussion Questions 

on page 5. Answer all questions and all parts of each question. 

2.

Develop

each answer to the fullest extent possible, including citations 

from 

course 

resources, 

where applicable, to support your arguments.   

3.

Submit your assignment as a separate MS Word document in your assignments folder. 

Do not type you

r answers into the case study document. 

4.

Include a Cover Page with Name, Date, and Title of Assignment. 

5.

Do not include the original question. Use the following format: Question 1, Question 2, 

etc. 

6.

Each response should be written in complete sentences, do

uble

–

spaced and spell

–

checked. 

Use 12

–

point Times New Roman font with 1

–

inch margins on all sides 

7.

Include page numbers according to APA formatting guidelines. 

8.

Include citations in APA format at the end of each answer.