Posted: May 11th, 2015

Practical and Written Assessment: Creating the Big Data Strategy

Practical and Written Assessment: Creating the Big Data Strategy

Task Description

You are to write a report on how Big Data can be used in Decision making. Select a Big Data use case/ case study and your task includes to define the technology stack and required data and analytics architecture including the Master Data Management (MDM), ETL/ELT/data enrichment, data warehousing, BI, and advanced analytics requirements necessary to support the Customer Intimacy business strategy. Your report should address:

1. Why Big Data intelligence is important?
2. How do Big Data management helps in IT Process management?
3. How structured and unstructured data can be merged for decision making?
4. What role social media plays in organisations decision making?
5. Your report should consist of 3000 words and use 5 scholarly articles.

Some of the Big Data Use Cases can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/Dell/big-data-use-cases-36019892

Assessment Due Date

Week 11 Friday (29-May-2015) 05:00 PM AEST

Assignment 2 is due on Friday Week 11 at 17:00 AEST.

Return Date to Students

Exam Week Friday (19-Jun-2015)

Weighting

40%

Assessment Criteria

Assessment marking criteria:

1. Introduction 15%
2. Organisation 20%
3. Quality of Information 25%
4. Grammar Usage 15%
5. References used 10%
6. Conclusion 15%