ICT110 Introduction to Data Science Assignment 2

Assessment and Submission Details

Marks: 30% of the Total Assessment for the Course

Due Date: 11:59pm Friday, Week 12

Submit your assignment to Blackboard Task 2. Please follow the submission instructions on
Blackboard.

The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 30% of the total
assessment for the course. ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign
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Background
A research team planned to study the heath development of the world in the past 15 years.
The team retrieved the dataset from World Bank (http://databank.worldbank.org) about
Health and Population Statistics between 2001 and 2015.

The dataset contains the following attributes:

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions
(% of total)
Cause of death, by injury (% of total)
Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (% of total)
Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people)
Health expenditure per capita (current US$)
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)
Health expenditure, private (% of GDP)
Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)
Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)
Maternal mortality ratio (national estimate, per 100,000 live births)
Immunization, BCG (% of one-year-old children)
Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
School enrollment, primary (% gross)
School enrollment, secondary (% gross)
School enrollment, tertiary (% gross)
School enrollment, tertiary, female (% gross)
Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years
of age)
Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

More details about the data attributes and data content can be found in the attached
documents.

Assignment Task
You are a member of the team, and need to perform data analysis on countries in the region
of East Asia & Pacific.

The team has not set any specific goal for the analysis. Therefore, you have the freedom to
explore the data, and dig out anything you feel interesting or significant.

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You have been requested to prepare a data analysis report about your work and explain your
findings. The potential audiences include other researchers, business representatives, and
government agencies. They may have limited ICT or mathematical knowledge.

To prepare the report, please follow the following outline:

1. Introduction
Provide an introduction to the problem. Include background material as appropriate: who
cares about this problem, what impact it has, where does the data come from.

2. Data Setup
Describe how to load the data, and the libraries needed. Provide an overview of the data
about its dimensions and structures.

3. Exploratory Data Analysis

Perform 3 one-variable analysis. Plot at least one graph for each variable. Explain why the
selected graph is appropriate.

Perform 2 two-variable analysis. Plot at least one graph for each variable. Explain why the
selected graph is appropriate

The analysis can be performed on all years and all countries, or on a subset of your interest.

4. Advanced Analysis
4.1 Clustering
Briefly explain the concept of clustering and k-means.
Try to do a clustering analysis to group countries according to some selected attributes.

4.2 Linear Regression

Briefly explain the concept of linear regression.
Try to do 2 linear regression analysis. Plot the learned models.

The analysis can be performed on all years and all countries, or on a subset of your interest.

5. Conclusion

6. Reflections
In this part, discuss any difficulties you had performing the analysis and how you solved
those difficulties. Reflect on how the analysis process went for you, what you learnt, and
what you might do differently next time.

For the data analysis, you need to provide both R code, and the explanation to the code and
the result. For the section 2 4, please represent each R code snippet in a box with some
comments. For example:
# Draw a boxplot on the attribute Income
boxplot(MyData$income)

The following guidelines will be used in marking each section of the assignment:

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100% 90% 75% 65% 50% 25% 0

Outstanding: High Distinction: Credit: Pass: Fail: Not
Distinction: Submitted:
An outstanding An excellent More than Competently Satisfactorily Did not No attempt
attempt well piece of work competently meets the meets the sufficiently made or
formatted and that meets all meets the criteria as criteria. meet the different from
professionally the specified criteria specified with criteria to what is
presented criteria with specified with few minor pass. acceptable
piece of work. very minor only minor mistakes or
omissions or mistakes or omissions.
mistakes omissions.

Report Format
Your report should be no less than 1,200 words and it would be best to be no longer than
2,000 words long. All comments and graph titles are counted.

The report MUST be formatted using the following guidelines:

Paragraph text 12 point Calibri single line spacing
Headings Arial in an appropriate type size
Margins 2.5cm on all margins
Header Report title
Footer page number (including the word Page)
Page numbering roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv) up to and including the Table of
Contents, restart numbering using conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) from the first
page after the Table of Contents.
Title Page Must not contain headers or footers. Include your name as the reports
author but DO NOT include any reference to your student ID, course code or course
name.
The report is to be created as a single Microsoft Word document. No other format is
acceptable and doing so will result in the deduction of marks.

For advise on report writing, the following book provides good advices:
Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014, Communication Skills Handbook, 4th Ed, Wiley, Australia.

Referencing
2 references for the explanation of Clustering and 2 for linear regression are required. These
references should follow the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references
should be from journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in
the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. The use of unqualified references will result
in the deduction of marks.

Submission
The completed assignment is to be submitted to Blackboard Task 2 by the due date of
11:59pm Friday, Week 12.

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The assignment will be assessed according to the marking sheet which is shown in the last
page. Late submission will be penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please
note Saturday and Sunday are included in the count of days late.

Assignment Return and Release of Grades

Assignment grades will be available on the course website in two weeks after the submission.
An electronic assignment marking sheet will be available at this time.
Where an assignment is undergoing investigation for alleged plagiarism or collusion the
grade for the assignment and the assignment will be withheld until the investigation has
concluded.

Assignment Guidelines
This assignment will take a number of weeks to complete and will require a good
understanding of data science and management for successful completion. It is imperative
that students take heed of the following points in relation to doing this assignment:

1. Ensure that you clearly understand the requirements for the assignment what has to be
done and what are the deliverables.
2. If you do not understand any of the assignment requirements Please ASK the course
coordinator or your tutor.
3. Each time you work on any aspect of the assignment reread the assignment requirements
to ensure that what is required is clearly understood.

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Appendix A

Marking Sheet for ICT110 2017.S2 Assignment 2

Student name:
Student ID:

Maximum Marks
Items
Marks Obtained
Report formatting (font, header and footer, table of content, 5
numbering, referencing)
Professional communication (correct spelling, grammar, formal 5
business language used)
Report introduction 8
Data setup 5
3.1 1st one-variable 5
3.2 2nd one-variable 5
Exploratory Data Analysis 3.3 3rd one-variable 5
3.4 1st two-variable 8
3.5 2nd two-variable 8
4.1 Clustering 10
Advanced Analysis 4.2.1 1st Linear 10
4.2.2 2nd Linear 10
Conclusion 8
Reflection 8
Total = 100 0.0

OVERALL COMMENTS:

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