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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS (1500 words)

1. you write a consolidated document for the *group*(this is the document you would give to your client as consultants - clients do not particularly care about who did what part...). NB: you are writing for a senior person - please do not give lengthy introductions... The structure of the document is roughly governed by the deliverables described in the assignment specification, however, I accept any meaningful structure (think about making sure I can easily find the markable components!)

1. your individual material - this will be included in the form as you produce it. No further editing/formatting required - this is material for me to work out the individual mark, so you do not need to make it look the same for all members (I recommend you to negotiate a uniform format before you write the individual parts - this makes compiling the material into a consolidated report easier...). Your individual material will be added to the document as appendices - one appendix for each member of the group, e-mail ID and the student name as the header of the appendix. E.g.: Appendix X - Jan Stanek - STAJY001.
2. The contribution of members of the group has to be made explicit: you add an appendix explaining the contribution of each member (who did what). NB: if you have non-contributing members DO NOT exclude them from communication - keep all of them posted and in general treat them in the same way as the contributing members and give them all the opportunity to contribute. Make the contribution list available for all members (I do not want to solve "conspiracy" and "bullying" cases at the end of the semester - if someone does not contribute, this goes in with the first assignment and we may be able to solve the problem transparently).
3. The complete material (consolidated document + appendices with individual work) will be submitted by one member of the group.The group will choose who will submit - and this is the submission I will be taking for marking. All other members can submit whatever they want (if you think the submitting member will miss the deadline etc...), but this material will be possibly not seen by me (I can use it for conflict resolution...). The main reason for having one identified submission for marking per group is to avoid version conflicts and confusion stemming from several slightly different versions of the same report being submitted by members of the same group.

                                                                                                       

1. The name of the submitted file for marking will be: "<practical> Group <group number> report for marking" where <practical> is "Tuesday", "Wednesday" or "External"; and <group number> is the group number I assigned to your group E.g.: "Thursday Group 1 report for marking". All other members of the group can submit their material (or indeed whatever version of the material they want) with the file name: "<practical> Group <group number> - individual <your networkID" where <network ID> is your e-mail ID - e.g. "Thursday Group 1 individual STAJY001". The preferred format of the file is Word or PDF. If there are more files, pack them as ZIP or RAR.
2. Each submission is expected to have the group identification (e.g. "Tuesday Group 1") and student list including your networkID ("Stanek Jan, STAJY001"...) on its first page - I print the material. Please use networkIDs, not your student ID numbers.