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Signature Assignment<\/h2>\n
About Your Signature Assignment<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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This signature assignment is designed to \u00a0align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. \u00a0Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe \u00a0what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their \u00a0degree. The signature assignment may be graded with an automated rubric \u00a0that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across \u00a0a location or college\/school and used for program improvements.<\/p>\n

Purpose of Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of this assignment is for \u00a0students to synthesize the concepts learned throughout the course, \u00a0provide students an opportunity to build critical thinking skills, \u00a0develop businesses and organizations, and solve problems that require \u00a0data.<\/p>\n

Assignment Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n

Case 1:<\/u><\/p>\n

Scenario:<\/strong> Cloud Data Services (CDS), headquartered \u00a0in Memphis, provides information technology services, specifically \u00a0application hosting services in the cloud for several clients in the \u00a0southern United States. CDS hosts software applications on their network \u00a0servers. While CDS has achieved great success and customers rate CDS’s \u00a0services highly, lately, some customers have been complaining about \u00a0downtime on one of the primary network servers. The given dataset, found \u00a0in the Signature Assignment Excel\u00ae\u00a0Template, contains the downtime data for the month of November.<\/p>\n

Use<\/strong> the data analytics skills learned in Week 3 and analyze<\/strong> the downtime data.<\/p>\n

Make<\/strong> a short presentation to CDS’s management including the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Using used Microsoft\u00ae Excel\u00ae\u00a0Pivot Tables, \u00a0construct a frequency distribution showing the number of times during \u00a0the month that the server was down for each downtime cause category.<\/li>\n
  2. Develop a either a bar chart or a pie chart that displays the data from the frequency distribution in part 1.<\/li>\n
  3. Evaluate the mean, median, standard deviation, and variance of the downtime minutes for the month of November.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Case 2:<\/u><\/p>\n

    Note:\u00a0<\/em>Although you will be studying \u00a0the concept of CPI in more detail in your ECO\/561 class; for the purpose \u00a0of this case, you need to use the concepts of percentages, percentage \u00a0increase\/decrease, and creating and interpreting line charts to compute \u00a0the inflation rate in the US economy and determine which time period \u00a0experienced the highest inflation rate.<\/p>\n

    Follow<\/strong> the steps below to complete this signature assignment:<\/p>\n

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    1. Search for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED).<\/li>\n
    2. On the home page of the website, you will see a search box.<\/li>\n
    3. Type in CPI- AUCSL <\/em>in the search box and press the return key.<\/li>\n
    4. The first result of the search will be “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items.” Click on this result link.<\/li>\n
    5. Click on the Download link and download the data in Excel\u00ae.<\/li>\n
    6. On the Excel\u00ae file, the second column gives you the CPI values for each period starting from 1947.<\/li>\n
    7. Go to the last row and notice the last date and the CPI value. Go \u00a0back 6 years from this last date. For example, if the last date is \u00a02016-11-01, then the date 6 years ago would be 2010-11-01.<\/li>\n
    8. Copy and paste this six years data into a separate Excel\u00ae tab.<\/li>\n
    9. Using Excel\u00ae, calculate the percentage change in CPI from \u00a0a year earlier for each observation, beginning with the observation one \u00a0year later than the first observation. To make this calculation, click \u00a0on the blank cell next to the observation corresponding to that date and \u00a0then use Formula 1, located in the Signature Assignment Excel\u00ae\u00a0Formulas document (note that in Excel\u00ae, the symbol for multiplication is *),\u00a0where t-1<\/em> is the first observation and t<\/em> \u00a0is the observation one year later. For example, to find the percentage \u00a0change in CPI from 2011-11-01 to 2010-11-01, refer to Formula 2 located \u00a0in the Signature Assignment Excel\u00ae Formulas document. Convert this value to a percentage in Excel\u00ae. \u00a0Repeat this process for the remaining observations (you can use the \u00a0copy and paste functions to avoid having to retype the formula).<\/li>\n
    10. This new column contains the national inflation rate.<\/li>\n
    11. Create a line graph of the percentage changes (inflation rates) from a year earlier.<\/li>\n
    12. Which period experienced the highest inflation rate? What was the inflation rate during that period?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Format<\/strong> your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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