read the document that I will upload and
Write a 300-word (minimum) post in first person addressing your struggle with the reading material. Write about what you dont understand, or what you half-understand, or how the material connects to the previous week, or what about the material fascinates you and why. Do write in proper English; however, do not write anything that resembles formal writing.
Day: January 15, 2020
Please chose only one question from the two below. please answer the question direct without too much of an introduction or conclusion. The main focus should be to answer the questions.
Discussion Question 1:
Spending by the consumer sector is the driving force in the US economic system. Although the business and government sectors make a considerable contribution to the success of the economy, it is the spending by the consumer or household sector of the economy that determines prosperity or recession in the economy.
Do you agree or disagree with this argument?
Why or why not?
How has the spending behavior of the government sector changed over the past decade, and what effect had these changes had on the economy?
Justify your answers
Discussion Question 2:
Decision making in a business environment requires an understanding of cost and revenue data. This includes an understanding of marginal and incremental analysis, as well as basic cost and revenue relationships. Explain how a basic understanding of these concepts, as well as of managerial economics, can enhance the managerial decision-making process. Justify your answer.
(1) Email-essay scenario: Impressed with your work from last week, your boss has tasked you with leading the data science team effort for this project. Your first task is to make a plan for data gathering and collection. Your boss wants you to determine what data is necessary to answer the business questions and achieve the project’s objective. Your boss has asked you to send a proposed plan as an email, for the *first 2 weeks* of data collection, including:
What datasets will be needed
Why these datasets? How does the information that they contain inform the decision or answer business questions?
Which datasets exist internally?
If any datasets don’t already exist, specify how they will be collected.
Suggestions
If the data collection you’re imagining for the project would take more than 2 weeks, restrict the email to what can be done in two weeks
Use your knowledge of the cases / how businesses work to imagine what likely exists already internally at Salesforce and Netflix. This week’s video “Delivering High Quality Analytics at Netflix” will give you a sense of what sorts of data exists at Netflix, and help you imagine what data may exist at Salesforce.
Specify the data that will be collected and not necessarily what will be calculated from it. For example, for Salesforce, don’t specify that the dataset is ratios of men-to-women, specify you want the HR dataset that contains all employee IDs/names and their gender.
Requirements:
Minimum 300 words
Minimum 1 reference and with in line citations as appropriate
Reference list
The Chi-squared test has been used earlier to test a hypothesis about a population variance. It is also a hypothesis testing procedure for when one or more variables in the research are categorical (nominal). During this week, we are covering the following two such Chi-squared tests:
`Chi-squared Goodness of Fit Test
`Chi-squared Test for Independency
1. Describe an example of a research question where a Chi-squared test has been used. Mention the two hypotheses of the problem and display a numerical demonstration of your example. In particular, interpret the test P value in the context of your research example.
2. Describe why the Chi-squared tests of the types mentioned above are always right-tailed hypothesis testing problems.
What to do:
1. Seek, find, and visit websites and YouTube channels associated with coding and creativity; e.g., https://scratch.mit.edu/ http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ https://girlswhocode.com https://hourofcode.com/ https://processing.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/CodeOrg (Links to an external site.)
2. Watch a bunch of the videos that promote or advertise the cause. Consider who appears in the videos and what that reveals about the intended audience for the videos. Take some screenshots and some written notes as you watch. Record the URLs of the videos you watch.
3. Watch and do one of the Hour of Code tutorials (https://hourofcode.com/us/learn), or one of the talk throughs on computer programming at Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming). Lets call these tutorials interactive videos. Document your progress for this step as you did for the last: take notes, screenshots, and remember the URLs for everything you look at or play with.
4. As you select a tutorial to do, you will notice that they are targeted at different audiences — sometimes explicitly, like in terms of recommended age group; sometimes implicitly through their reference to images or sounds from popular culture that appeal to certain audiences.
5. Research who made these videos, who appears in these videos, and who financed these videos (both the promotional videos and the interactive videos). Start this process by Wikipedia surfing the profiles of these people; e.g., with respect to Mitchel Resnick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchel_Resnick) you will find out where and with whom he works, where he got his degree, what he used to do before he was a professor. Follow links to co-workers, personal relations (e.g., brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, etc.), places of employment, etc. To find more than the basics e.g., to find out that Resnick serves on the board of the Computer Clubhouse Network (http://theclubhousenetwork.org/board) and the Scratch Foundation (https://www.scratchfoundation.org/who-we-are/) you will need to broaden your search beyond Wikipedia. Keep track of the connections you find by drawing a social network diagram.
6. Consider the history of the creativity movement. The OED can be a place to start, just looking at the etymology of words like creative (http://www.oed.com.oca.ucsc.edu/view/Entry/44072#eid8014684), but a real history will take some more digging (e.g., https://www.ias.edu/ideas/van-eekelen-discipline-creativity); and, finding the apt intellectual predecessor of specific ideas about creativity will entail even more study; e.g., Resnicks Creative Learning Spiral seems to be a vulgarization of philosopher Hegels dialectic spiral of sublation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufheben). Wikipedia can be of some help for this step too, but to make claims like I have just done connecting Resnick to Hegel requires a reading of the original sources, if you are going to be academically respectable.
7. Consider the cultural, business, and political context of creativity and code. For example, is the code and creativity cause motivated by a view of economics like the creative class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class) notion advanced by business school professor Richard Florida? Is it a plot by the billionaires who appear in those Hour of Code videos? What does coding and creativity have to do with bigger movements, like the Maker Movement? Is it all just a natural outgrowth of the coupling of hippies and the military that spawned Silicon Valley as detailed in Fred Turners history, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2006)? You might also want to consider coding and creativity as it appears in academia and the university (e.g., The biannual ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference: http://cc.acm.org) (Links to an external site.)
8. Outline a way to tie all this stuff together: Who appears in the videos? Who is behind the videos? Who are the videos designed to appeal to? What are the money and the power behind the videos or, more generally, behind the code and creativity movement?
9. Now you are ready to write. Pick a position: Are you for this coding and creativity thing, or against it, or are you going to point out both positives and negatives? Youve looked at a lot of videos and consulted a lot of biographies: For your argument, who agrees with you? Who disagrees and why? What would it take to convince someone otherwise? To figure out what would be convincing, you need to consider the audience for your paper. Start with the other students in class. How can you convince them? Include both big picture stuff, e.g., what creativity and coding is in the mass media, education in general, etc. And, include close readings of specific arguments and promotions you have seen or read in the videos or texts, like Resnicks text. What do those videos or texts do to you to convince you, or not? Include a screenshot or two if it helps you make your point. List, in your bibliography/references URLs, videos, books, etc. you discovered in your research for this project and that you incorporate into your paper. Usually, it is the case that the more references you include the better. In contrast, a paper that hinges on just one or two references is usually too fragile to withstand a close reading or critique.
10. Grading:
The paper will be graded according to the following criteria:
(a) Spelling and grammar count! We will take off points for poor proofreading;
(b) the quality and extent of your research;
(c) the clarity of your argument: Make your point right up front and then extend your argument in the body of the paper;
(d) the skill with which you weave your references into your argument; Just listing references is not convincing; you need to consider the point (or ancillary point) you are trying to make by citing a reference; e.g., some references are there to convince the reader that you know what you are writing about; others are there to represent adversaries: ideas or people against whom you are arguing; other are positive citations, references to ideas or people who back up or give further depth to the position you are arguing.
Literature Review
Research / review a six-peer-review article and Scholar articles that relates to the Sun Coast Business problems identified in the Course Project Guidance Document (Attached) The articles should also be quantitative research articles from primary and secondary sources. Try including words like correlation, regression, t test, and ANOVA in your keyword search criteria.
Develop a Literature Review: (use Template attached)
1. The article discussion should include the qualifications of the authors, purpose of the studies.
2. What research methodologies and designs used.
3. What are the results from the studies, and explanations of how the articles relate to Sun Coasts problem?
4. Ensure that you also describe how you believe the research made a positive organizational impact.
Guidelines to the Literature Review: (Use Template attached)
a. Use template attached and follow instructions.
b. Organization should be logical, clear, and appropriate.
c. You should provide strong evidence of critical thinking.
d. Essay should end with a conclusion statement to support your essay.
** Need three (3) peer-reviewed, academic sources other than article attached no more than 5 years old minimum**
** Essay should be 2 Full pages minimum not including Title page and Reference page**
Assignment Instructions: Congratulations! Your political candidate won the election. Now it’s time to make some changes. Your job, as the national security advisor to your newly elected candidate, is to brief the policymaker on policy recommendations in one of the following areas: (Choose ONLY one area to complete all three of the Practical Policy Option Assignments.)
SUBJ: Threats from Islamic State
From the area threat listed above, research and collect information to include:
1. Historical data,
2. Exploration of relevant policy questions,
3. Political issues and a sticky situation,
4. An up-to-date summary of recent events on your topic to help your new policymaker in his/her first day in office.
Get creative. Choose a specific policy position – Senator, Congressman, President, etc. (You could also use an appointed position, like Secretary of State or Ambassador to the UN etc.)
Although most policy backgrounders do not include citations, this one will. You need to cite ALL of your information.
TECHNICAL GUIDANCE:
Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
Follow the Turabian Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
Use scholarly or other relevant sources.
DO NOT use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize: books, peer reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
The submission is be in your own words with minimal quotes and cited appropriately.
The Final Paper should include:
An analysis of the question or controversy you selected including central arguments for various sides of the controversy
An explanation of how the question or controversy relates to clinical applications as a helping professional
An explanation of how you might reconcile the question or controversy in your current or future professional role
Bibliography of resources
The Final Paper should include at least 10 references.
Make Four 150 words mini-essays: one for each author, choosing one idea from each author youd like to discuss) and one page of summary of all the readings
HobbesGaskin book pages 47-52
SpinozaPDF
CollinsGaskin pages 53-57
HumeGaskin pages 70-86
Step 1: Create a budget
First, create a complete and exhaustive budget of all the expenses this family would incur throughout a typical month. The budget can be created in any format you wish, but it must be well organized, comprehensive, and straightforward. Use the Cost of Living sheets (provided under additional materials I have provided you) to create your budget.
Step 2: Reflection #1 (at least 1 full page)
After creating your budget, reflect on how easy or difficult it would be for this family to survive or even thrive. Describe the quality of life of this family. What kind of housing do they live in? What are their jobs? What might an average week day or weekend day look for them? What are they able to afford? What are they forced to do without that other more affluent families may take for granted (vacations, eating out, spending money, a second car, etc.)? How might this influence the family?
Step 3: Life happens
Next, you will need to incorporate the two Life Happens cards into your monthly budget. These two cards should occupy separate line items on the budget. If necessary, depending on what life throws at your family, you must modify your budget and clearly delineate (so that it is obvious to me) how these circumstances influenced the budget.
Step 4: Reflection #2 (at least 1 full page)
Explain what happened to your family by way of life events, how they dealt with those events, and how it impacted the family. Did the budget change significantly? If yes, how so? If not, why not? What decisions had to be made? What might be the repercussions of these decisions?
Step 5: Conclusion (at least 2 full pages)
What does this exercise demonstrate to you regarding social class and the family? What do you think are the most important ways in which social class influences family life in the United States? How is the family, as an institutional arena, influenced by other institutional arenas like education, law, the economy, medicine, and others? How are the childrens lives affected by living at this particular level of the social strata? How might the familys difficulty (or ease) in meeting basic needs translate into access to opportunities (education, jobs, health care) for the children later in life? How does your familys social class affect how they experience every facet of their lives? What sorts of stressors might your family face given its social class? What do you think are the most important ways in which social class influences family life in the United States?
