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    Data Driven Decisions For Business

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    This document provides the assessment brief for a coursework submission on data driven decisions for business. The submission requires analyzing sales data from a luxury jewelry company called Bangles. Over 4 weeks, students are asked to [1] summarize key trends in data analysis, [2] create a data request table, [3] identify and resolve issues in provided sales data, [4] generate descriptive statistics, [5] create 4 visual charts from the statistics, and [6] include commentary for each chart. The submission is worth 100 marks total and must be under 1,050 words, with references in Harvard style. Late submissions and plagiarized content will not be accepted.

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    Data Driven Decisions For Business

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    This document provides the assessment brief for a coursework submission on data driven decisions for business. The submission requires analyzing sales data from a luxury jewelry company called Bangles. Over 4 weeks, students are asked to [1] summarize key trends in data analysis, [2] create a data request table, [3] identify and resolve issues in provided sales data, [4] generate descriptive statistics, [5] create 4 visual charts from the statistics, and [6] include commentary for each chart. The submission is worth 100 marks total and must be under 1,050 words, with references in Harvard style. Late submissions and plagiarized content will not be accepted.

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    This document provides the assessment brief for a coursework submission on data driven decisions for business. The submission requires analyzing sales data from a luxury jewelry company called Bangles. Over 4 weeks, students are asked to [1] summarize key trends in data analysis, [2] create a data request table, [3] identify and resolve issues in provided sales data, [4] generate descriptive statistics, [5] create 4 visual charts from the statistics, and [6] include commentary for each chart. The submission is worth 100 marks total and must be under 1,050 words, with references in Harvard style. Late submissions and plagiarized content will not be accepted.

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    Data Driven Decisions For Business

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    This document provides the assessment brief for a coursework submission on data driven decisions for business. The submission requires analyzing sales data from a luxury jewelry company called Bangles. Over 4 weeks, students are asked to [1] summarize key trends in data analysis, [2] create a data request table, [3] identify and resolve issues in provided sales data, [4] generate descriptive statistics, [5] create 4 visual charts from the statistics, and [6] include commentary for each chart. The submission is worth 100 marks total and must be under 1,050 words, with references in Harvard style. Late submissions and plagiarized content will not be accepted.

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    The key takeaways from the document are that data analysis is becoming increasingly important for companies to make business decisions, and this assessment asks the student to request data from a client called Bangles, review the data for issues, calculate descriptive statistics, and create various charts to visualize the data.

    Data being requested from Bangles includes sales by key category by month by market, total volume and sales value by month, average prices per month by category and total, total volume and sales by category and total by year and by quarter. Both financial and non-financial data across at least 6 different types is being requested to help the company understand Bangles' performance.

    Issues identified in the data provided by Bangles include missing or incorrect values. These were identified by checking for outliers, inconsistencies in formatting or categorization, and performing sanity checks on calculations. The issues will be resolved by cleaning the data by removing or correcting erroneous values.

    MSc Management

    Data Driven Decisions for Business

    Coursework Assessment Brief

    Submission mode: Turnitin online access


    1. General Assessment Guidance

     Your summative assessment for this module is made up of this Coursework submission which
    accounts for 100% of the marks
     Please note late submissions will not be marked.
     You are required to submit all elements of your assessment via Turnitin online access. Only
    submissions made via the specified mode will be accepted and hard copies or any other digital
    form of submissions (like via email or pen drive etc.) will not be accepted.
     For coursework, the submission word limit is 1,050 words. You must comply with the word count
    guidelines. You may submit LESS than 1,050 words but not more
     Do not put your name or contact details anywhere on your submission. You should only put
    your student registration number (SRN) which will ensure your submission is recognised in the
    marking process.
     A total of 100 marks are available for this module assessment, and you are required to achieve
    minimum 50% to pass this module.
     You are required to use only Harvard Referencing System in your submission. Any content which
    is already published by other author(s) and is not referenced will be considered as a case of
    plagiarism.
    You can find further information on Harvard Referencing in the online library on the VLE. You can
    use the following link to access this information: http://bpp.libguides.com/Home/StudySupport
     BPP University has a strict policy regarding authenticity of assessments. In proven instances of
    plagiarism or collusion, severe punishment will be imposed on offenders. You are advised to
    read the rules and regulations regarding plagiarism and collusion in the GARs and MOPP which
    are available on VLE in the Academic registry section.
     You should include a completed copy of the Assignment Cover sheet. Any submission without
    this completed Assignment Cover sheet may be considered invalid and not marked.
    2. Assessment Brief

    2.1. Scenario

    You have recently been employed as a data analyst in a consultancy called Wood From the
    Trees (WFTT). The consultancy was established 10 years ago and specialises in helping
    companies that don’t have the skills to analyse data to support business decisions. WFTT
    have successfully established a strong reputation and they are now working with
    internationally recognised brands.

    As WFFTs expands they continue to bring in new employee’s. The recruitment strategy is to
    employ less experienced people and give them the support and development they need to
    succeed in the company. They like recruits to have a broad management experience and not
    be specialist analysts because they offer more commercially viable recommendations.

    As part of the approach to introducing you to how the company works WFFT have asked you
    to complete a number of initial tasks to ensure that you have a grounded knowledge and
    understanding of the company. This is your opportunity to demonstrate your capability and
    give them the confidence to let you run your own project in the future. The responses to
    requests detailed below should be included in a summary Word report that you save and
    submit in a PDF file.

    2.2. Formative

    Week 1

    1. Summarise the key changes and trends that are leading to the increased importance of
    data analysis in companies

    250 words. 10 Marks

    Week 2

    WFTT have recently taken on a new client – they are mid sized high end luxury international
    jewellery chain called Bangles. The first phase of the project for Bangles is to understand the
    performance of the company. To do this you have been asked to define the data request to
    be sent to Bangles. A data request is a table that lists the data you would like Bangles to
    send and which will then be used for the analysis. As an example – the data request is
    expected to include sales by key category by month by market (e.g United Kingdom)

    2. Produce a summary table which describes the data and the business function within
    Bangles that you expect to be responsible for providing this data. Your line manager has
    indicated that they expect you to cover both financial and non financial data and at least
    6 different types of data be requested (for example sales, profit)

    250 words. 10 Marks


    Week 3

    Bangles has provided an extract of data – which your line manager has made available to
    you in a spreadsheet (see separate Excel file). You have been asked to complete an initial
    review of the data and to create relevant descriptive statistics

    3. Highlight any issues you can see in the data – and describe how you identified them.
    Justify what you will do to resolve each issue that you identify

    150 words. 10 marks

    4. Create the following statistics


    A. Total volume and sales value by month
    B. Average prices per month by category and total
    C. Total volume and sales by category and total by year and by quarter
    D. Year on year volume, sales value and average price by category and total

    Include a summary table of C and D in your report

    20 marks

    Week 4

    A key step in any project that your company delivers is to take the data and present it back to
    the client in a visual form. Your line manager has asked you to complete this work

    5. Using the descriptive statistics that you have calculated in your answer to part (4) create
    up to 4 charts to visualise the data and copy these charts into the submission. You need
    to have at least 1 example of the following types of chart
    a. At least one of your charts needs to use a secondary axis (e.g. the chart needs to
    have a line and bar shown on separate axes)
    b. A stacked bar chart

    30 marks

    6. Include a short commentary for each chart that explains what is being presented, why it
    matters and highlights any follow up questions you think are relevant

    400 words. 20 marks

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