Step$-$by$-$step Directions

Articulate Your Management Question $(1-2$ slides$)$

$1\mathrm{.}1.$ Identify one management opportunity for improving your organization $($or department$)$ or one challenge it is facing. Explain why it is important to address it$.$

$1\mathrm{.}2.$ State your opportunity$/$challenge as a management question.

Collect Data $(1$ slide$)$

$2\mathrm{.}1.$ Find a dataset that is relevant to your management question. You can use data from a free dataset $($refer to Week $1$ Resources Folder for available data, links to free online data and tips for searching online for data$).$ Introduce your dataset and describe it$.$

$2\mathrm{.}2.$ Choose $4$ variables that you are interested in and copy$-$paste them in a new Excel file, which you will work on for the rest of the assignment. Make sure that at least two of the variables are quantitative so you can run all the required analyses.

$2\mathrm{.}3.$ Explain your choice of $4$ variables; explicitly argue how each is related to your management question.

Describe Your Data $(2-5$ slides$)$

$3\mathrm{.}1.$ Identify the type of each variable and describe how they are measured.

$3\mathrm{.}2.$ Describe each of the $4$ variables in your dataset by finding their $(1)$ mean, $(2)$ median, $(3)$ mode, $(4)$ range $(5)$ quartiles.

$3\mathrm{.}3.$ Explain thoroughly what the descriptive statistics tell you about each of the variables.

$3\mathrm{.}4.$ Decide which measure$($s$)$ of central tendency represent your variables most accurately and why. These will be the measures you will use for your final argumentation.

Visualize Your Data $(2-5$ slides$)$