Tool Applicability to Initiative: Assess the current data analytic tools for their applicability

to your initiative. In other words, how well will the existing tools and technology in place

work with your initiative?

The benefits of data science and its applications is countless. In the current business environment

where data science has been firmly embraced by various co-operations and businesses, there is

the need to develop and apply tools to help business leaders make informed decisions. Currently

there are thousands of Data tools out there for data analysis. As a data scientist, the goal is to use

data analysis to inspect, clean, transform, and model the data at your disposal with the goal of

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discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. Hence

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the need to use appropriate analytic tools to analyze the data in response to the survey output

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collated specifically in this case from the community in the city of Concordia with the goal of
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seeking to find out the various connections that may exist among the various community
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organizations to draw out common collaborations or linkages to meet some of the needs in the
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community.

In assessing and making an appropriate choice for an appropriate tool to analyze the data at hand,
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one has to bear in mind that an appropriate analytical tool has to be able to explore the data to
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find patterns and relationships, and also have the ability to apply appropriate statistical
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techniques to determine whether hypotheses about the data set are true or false (Tukey, 2003).
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With data analytic tools been separated into quantitative data analysis and qualitative data
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analysis. My initiative or project would employ the use of quantitative analytic tools which will

involve the analysis of numerical data with quantifiable variables that can be compared or

measured statistically. The goal here will be to use data analytics which involves data mining

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 involving sorting through large data sets to identify trends, patterns and relationships (such as in

the Association Rule); predictive analytics, which seeks to predict customer behavior, and other

future events; and machine learning, an artificial intelligence technique that uses automated

algorithms to churn through data sets more quickly (such as in clustering techniques). With an

array of such data analytic tools at my disposal, I can apply these data mining, predictive

analytics and machine learning tools to the sets of data collated from my initiative from the

community in the city of Concordia.

Applicability to initiative

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At this point, to test the applicability of the tools to the initiative there is the need to building an

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analytical model, using predictive modeling tools and analytics software/programming languages
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such as R. Using R, the model will initially be run against a partial data set to test its accuracy
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and output; it will then be revised and tested again, until it functions as intended. Once this is
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achieved, the model is run in production mode against the full data set. R programming would

therefore be the best analytic tool to be applied to my initiative.

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F. Tool Applicability to Data: Assess the applicability of the existing tools for the data you

have or will have, based on your analysis of the characteristics of that data. In other words,
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how fitting are the existing tools for the data, considering the various forms the data may
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take?

With the countless number of new analytics tools at our disposal it is sometimes difficult to
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select the best choice for the task at hand. The overall goal is to select an application that is:

1. Designed to improve data exploration

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 2. Intuitive and possesses an easy-to-use interface. The analytics tool should be capable of

guiding even non-technical users through the model creation process.

3. Natural language interface to complete analysis
4. Support for advanced analysis algorithms. The application should be capable of finding

patterns in data
5. The ability to define test parameters for analytics models

The existing tool, R, is applicable for the data available. With the R language, it has all

standard data analysis tools for accessing data in different formats. Using R, there are tools

for traditional and modern statistical models like ANOVA, Regression, making it easy to

extract and merge the required information from the data available. With the data from the

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initiative at hand basic statistics can easily be applied in R to assess the mean, maxima,

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minima and standard deviation of the responses of the survey participants. Using R’s

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statistical application, we can draw out the averages of people in a particular social group
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who are interested in a particular project and how it links or connects to other interests
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expressed by other participants in other groups. Its applicability can be run on data in
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Windows and MacOS, making it suitable for the data at hand. Using R which is the most

used tool for predictive analytics the data available can be used to predict the commonalities
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or linkages that exists between the various social organizations in the city to reveal any
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linkages across the diverse community organizations to draw out common collaborations or
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linkages to meet some of the needs in the community.

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Also, with its ability to create pleasing graphics because of its parallel processing

functionality making R a strong visualization and graphics tool, the graphics can be used to
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gain meaningful insights that can be exported in a presentation report. Graphical

representations of “time spent in community and whether one is employed or not” or “gender

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 and whether one belongs to a professional grouping or not” can all be graphically represented

using R, thus making it well suited to be applied to the data currently collated.

G. Tool Recommendations: This course covers many analytic tools and technologies,

including their benefits and limitations for various uses and data. Recommend two tools that

are not already used and could reasonably be applied to your initiative. Assess the

applicability and value of these tools as they relate to your available and planned data and the

goals you have established for the initiative.

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Two data analytic tools that could be used based on the available data at hand would be

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As a data analytic tool, Tableau is a data visualization software package and enables one to
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explore data and make all kinds of analysis and observations. Its intelligent algorithms figure out

the type of data and the best method available to process it. With the data at hand various
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scenarios using complex algorithms can be used to spew out various data outcomes that can be
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analyzed to draw out different scenarios. With its unique ability to access files in different
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formats, tableau can be applied to my current data to analyze and visualize data better than any
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other data visualization software on the market. Tableau makes it easier to create powerful visual

information that communicates what is important better than a spreadsheet. Hence by using
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tableau, graphical commonalities that exists between the various social groupings in the

community can easily be graphed and visualized. Thus, I will be able to come up with graphical

representations between parameters such as Time_in_Community, Gender, Working, Age,

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 Family, Hobbies, Social_Club etc and how it influences choice of common projects by the

survey participants

Python as an analytic tool is powerful and easy to learn. Over time, analytics features have been

added, making it increasingly popular with developers looking to do analytics applications but

wanting more power than the R language. In comparison to R, R is built for one thing, statistical

analysis, but Python can do analytics plus many other functions including machine learning and

analytics. Hence as an improved tool with superior applications in comparison to R, phython can

be used analyse the available data to generate several conclusions to enable us draw out several

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connections and linkages in terms of common projects which the various groups in the

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community will be interested to work on to further enhance the mission of the city Concordia.

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Reference
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Hoaglin, D. (2003). John W. Tukey and Data Analysis. Statistical Science, 18(3), 311-318.
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