Topic Selection: Choose one of the extra credit project ideas below. (10
Points).
1. Forecast a big hypermarket's sales on 2 major holidays: Christmas and
Thanksgiving.
2. Conduct data mining for increasing and predicting sales in tourism.
3. Predict the success of a new upcoming movie.
4. Conduct market basket analysis.
5. Estimate retail prices for a particular product.
6. Provide an analysis on customer feedback or customer service.
7. Predict the prices of a particular commodity, product, or good.
8. Predict the fate of a loan application.
9. Predict customer churn rate for a company.
10. Conduct store sales analysis.
11. Develop measures to predict performance outcomes for a professional
sporting team.
12. Propose your own business analytics topic - Subject to instructor
approval.
Final Presentation: Develop a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation covering
the following sections. Slide count does not include title, agenda, or
sources. Each slide should include 100-150 words of speaker notes. (40
Points)
1. Introduction/Background
a. The Introduction provides background information on the business
problem to be investigated.
b. It should describe the current state of knowledge about the
problem.
c. The Introduction should conclude with a clearly stated study
hypothesis and its experimental expectations.
d. Clearly state your research questions.
2. Methods
a. The Methods section should describe procedures used in testing
the study hypothesis.
b. Choose one of the analytical approaches you have learned in the
course.
c. Procedures should be described in sufficient detail that they can be
repeated by others.
d. Materials, equipment, analytical, and statistical procedures should
all be described in detail in the Methods section.
3. Results
a. The Results section is a summary of the experimental outcome of
the study.
b. Results should include a concise verbal description of the outcome
as well as tables and figures, showing statistical results and
experimental error.
c. Tables and figures should include legends explaining what they are
summarizing.
4. Discussion
a. The Discussion section is where the results are interpreted, and
conclusions are drawn.
b. The Discussion should also compare the results to those of other
studies and give the general significance of the findings.
c. Study limitations, sources of error, and plans future work are
presented in the discussion.
5. Conclusion
6. Sources in APA Format
7. Submit your R code and supporting dataset with your submission.