1. When it comes to understanding, processing, analysing, and communicating data in the contemporary business environment, the old techniques do not work. Hence, there is a need for data visualization.

(1a) Explain the role and nature of business analytics in generating value from data

(1b) Explain the role of data visualization

(1c) Mention and discuss different techniques of data visualization

(1d) Use the information provided below to plot a line graph and analyse the information presented.

	S/N	Month	Product A	Product B	Product C	Product D	Product E	Product F
1	January	5960	7803	4350	4350	5460	8567
2	February	9567	3867	4056	2235	4543	4948
3	March	7896	4958	5094	3456	4256	6987
4	April	6784	7184	5145	5786	6146	8568
5	May	6464	6578	5234	4567	4987	6758
6	June	4256	6134	3876	3950	4776	8175
7	July	5937	5890	5900	3100	5673	7894
8	August	7484	9484	8473	1485	3818	3910
9	September	6938	5467	4239	3028	5049	6785
10	October	9485	3245	3048	2847	5588	7492
11	November	8567	4568	3145	2847	4875	6214
12	December	8458	5068	3857	3937	6847	7085

2. As a Business Analytics expert, you have been hired by Tasty Desserts Plc to advise the company about which financial models to use in light of the economic challenges of COVID-19 and Brexit. Describe and evaluate different types of business analytics and advise the company accordingly.

3. In today's marketplace, business analytics have proven to be a useful tool for assessing organizational performance. As a result of this background, evaluate the benefits of business analytics for a business organization -

4. Answers below questions:

1. Discuss the functions of descriptive statistics in business analytics
2. Using the variables as shown in Table 2, describe and summarise the data in a logical, meaningful, and efficient way

Days	Profit (thousands)	Number of sold items	Number of the remaining items
1	58	200	100
2	59	247	124
3	64	294	147
4	68	341	171
5	74	388	194
6	77	435	218
7	78	482	241
8	81	529	265
9	84	576	288
10	86	623	312
11	87	670	335
12	88	717	359
13	90	764	382
14	92	811	406
15	93	858	429

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