BUSA6004 and Introduction to Inference,Modelling,and Forecasting, Session 1, 2025
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Friday11thApril,23:55pm |
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IndividualAssignment |
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2-3weeksaftersubmission |
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Theassignmentquestionsappearattheendofthisdocument. |
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PleaseconvertyourWorddocumentinto aPDFbefore submission. Pleasesubmityour Excelfile inthe separatelink thatis provided. |
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USEOFRESOURCESANDTECHNOLOGIESINCLUDINGGENERATIVEARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
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AcknowledgementStatementbystudents:IacknowledgethatIhavenotusedGAITs(e.g.,ChatGPT) in drafting and proofreading this assignment. |
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Assume that you are working as a business analyst for a construction company in the state of Victoria (a state in Australia). You are tasked with analysing a large dataset of property sales data. This file has been provided to you on iLearn.
You are to submit an Excel file and a Word file (converted to a PDF). We will only mark the PDF. The Excel file will only be looked at in exceptional circumstances such as suspicion of plagiarism and other possible violations of academic integrity.
You are strongly encouraged to submit your own work. Several students receivedzero grades fortheassignmentandfortheentireunitinprevioussemesters,duetocasesofplagiarism.
Thisquestionrelatestotheentiredataset.
Chooseoneofthefollowing3variables:DistancefromCity,LandSize,BuildingArea. Forthevariableofyourchoosing:
- Provide numerical summaries of centred-ness and
- Provide two graphical summaries where each of them showcases centred-ness and spread.
Thetwodotpointsbelowshouldbeansweredwithin100-200words:
- What are some insights that you can draw from your summaries above?
- What further steps would you take to provide more depth to these numerical and graphical summaries?
Thisquestionrelatestoafilteredversionofthedataset.
Chooseoneofthefollowing:PriceofUnits,PriceofHouses(youwillhavetosort/filteryour spreadsheet).
Forthevariableofyourchoosing:
- Performastatisticaltesttotestwhetherthereisevidencethattheaveragepriceis greater than $1.2 million (for Houses) or the average price is greater than $0.7 million (forUnits).Inyourresponse,showallthestepsofahypothesis
Thetwodotpointsbelowshouldbeansweredwithin100-200words:
- What are some insights that you can draw from your test above?
- What further analysis would you conduct to provide more depth to this test?
Thisquestionrelatestotheentiredatasetthatis,makesureyouturnallfiltersoff.
Chooseanytwopairingsfromthefollowing:Price,DistancefromCity,LandSize,BuildingArea.
Foreachofthetwopairingsthatyouhavechosen:
- Examine the graphical and numerical
Thetwodotpointsbelowshouldbeansweredwithin100-200words:
- What are some insights that you can draw from your analysis above?
- What further steps would you take to provide more depth to this correlation analysis?
Question4BusinessInsights(10Marks)
Yourresponsetothisquestionshouldbe175225words.
Suppose that you are a business analyst who is employed by a construction company. Analyse your findingsabove to provide business insights and strategic direction to your company as they formulate their medium-to-long-term business strategy. You can complementyouranalysiswithresearch;however,youmustrefertotheanalysisfromthis datasetinyouranswer.
Inansweringthisquestion,applytheinsightssharedbytheindustryguestpanelinourfirst lectureaboutusingdatatogainthebuy-inofstakeholdersandusingdatatotellastory.
Reminders
- Please label your question numbers clearly in your
- You do not need to copy the question in your Word
- Please convert your Word document to a PDF before
- Please remember that there will be a separate submission link for your Excel file and for your PDF file