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Information and Data Literacy Assignment 2:

Preparation for Division Leadership
Memorandum Argument  
All green text are hyperlinks to resources to assist you in completing your assignment successfully. 

      Assignment Description
After the completion of IDL2 preliminary and final assignments, you will have developed a memorandum
for executives  in your company. This memorandum will make the case for all new hires to be proficient
in probability and statistics, or data literate because of its importance to your business. For the full
assignment problem statement see IDL 2 Final - Memorandum. The work you will complete for the
preliminary part of the second assignment is an analysis of the assignment data and a determination of
how to use these data to make your case. Details are below in Data Analysis. 

 Required Reading/Viewing
The following reading/viewing will provide you with the input you need to successfully complete this
assignment. 

Executives

(https://usflearn.instructure.com/courses/1661534/files/128262308/download?
download_frd=1) by House, Layton, Livingston & Moseley from  The Engineering Communication
Manual.  This brief chapter introduces how to effectively communicate with Executives.
Figures and Charts (https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/figures-and-charts/) on the UNC
Writing Center Tips and Tools website.  For the assignment, read starting at "Using Figures" through
to the end of the document.
Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the age of with: The culture catalyst
(https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ec/Documents/technology-media-
telecommunications/DI_Becoming-an-Insight-Driven-organization%20(2).pdf) by Tim Smith, Ben Stiller,
Jim Guszcza and Tom Davenport from Deloitte Insights This document contains the data you will
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Jim Guszcza, and Tom Davenport from Deloitte Insights.  This document contains the data you will
use as evidence for your argument that your division will be more profitable if employees are
proficient in statistics and probability. Read the assignment instruction prior to reading this. (It is a
document that Deloitte makes publicly available.) 

 Data Analysis 
Answering the questions below is intended to provide you with an understanding of the data in the
provided document and space to think about how it can be used to support the argument you are
required to make with it for the final phase of this assignment.  You will share what you found in small
teams during the workshop, where you will help each other hone your thinking on what this data is, tells
you, and its utility for making the argument you will make for the final phase of this work.   For answers
that require more than one or two words or numbers, you must use your own words. Your answers will
be presented to your classmates during the workshop (or for those who are asynchronous, on your own
time.)

No quotations and No plagiarism – Quotations are rarely used in professional engineering and computer science writing;
do not get in the habit of doing this. The words in your document must represent your own thinking based on the information
you have gathered.  Review the Plagiarism page if you are unclear on what constitutes plagiarism or are from a region of the
world that may think about it differently. 

I have the questions listed below. However, to answer them use the provided template

(https://usflearn.instructure.com/courses/1661534/files/128262400/download?download_frd=1) .  This will

provide a standard organization to your answers to facilitate your workshop discussions. 

Questions to be answered about  Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the age of with: The
culture catalyst (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ec/Documents/technology-media-
telecommunications/DI_Becoming-an-Insight-Driven-organization%20(2).pdf)

What do you know about the data that is used to develop the findings and inferences that are being
presented in this document?

1. What is the size of the sample?

2. Who were the participants sampled? (What types of organizational roles did they have?)
3. What do you know about the organizations the participants came from? 
4. How were the data collected?
5. What is the margin of error for these data? 

6. What is the confidence level? 

Using the answers from above

1. How would you identify the population the sample in these data intended to represent?
2. How do the sample and population described relate to the hypothetical company you work for? 

Go through the document and highlight any place that the data is presented in the text. Then identify the
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three to five points that are most important to the argument you will have to make and briefly describe
how they can be used in your argument

There are 6 figures in the document, identify briefly what each one tells you. Then identify the two you
think are most important to supporting the argument you will be making in the memorandum. 

Assignment Deliverable 
Complete the attached document.  

Data review use in the workshop -  Your data analysis answers will be used during the workshop
held on the day it is due. See details on the workshop for how you will use your document. 

For those in the online section it is your responsibility your responsibility to Find a group to work
with using the IDL2 workshop groups on the People tab of your course Canvas website prior to
the workshop.  

Revising and editing, and proofreading:  While this submittal is a review and discussion of data, you
are still expected to complete a grammar and spelling check before uploading your document to the
assignment. If you cannot read your document during the workshop it will be difficult for you to
participate. 

  Due Date

IDL 2 Phase 1 Data Review: March 10, 2022, 2:30 pm 

This assignment will close at 3:30 pm; any documents uploaded to Canvas after 2:30 but before 3:30 will
be accepted but with a 10 percent late penalty. This assignment is foundational for your participation in
the workshop. 

No assignments will be accepted after the assignment closes without a documented University-
accepted excuse will be accepted. 

Assignment Questions: Please use the Raise Your Hand discussion board or attend open help
sessions

Grading Questions: Dr. Gobes-Ryan (do not send the TAs or other professors these questions.)

IDL draft rubric 21F (1)

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Criteria Ratings Pts

Complete Data 15
pts 11.25
pts 8
pts 0
pts
review is Complete draft with Incomplete or Incomplete Draft was
submitted correct identification incorrectly identified document and not
A completed data of data incorrectly submitted.
review was The student submitted The student submitted identified data
submitted using a document using the a document, but it was The student 15 pts

the required required template in missing elements or submitted a

template with all which all elements was incomplete. OR document that
elements of the were completed. The they provided one or was incomplete
handout first six questions more incorrect and answered
completed. were answered answer(s) on the first 6 one or more of
correctly questions. the first six
questions Total Points:
15
incorrectly

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