ANALYTIC REPORT

This is a business analytics project aimed at generating innovative analytics solutions.

It will allow students to show innovation and creativity in applying Watson Analytics/SAP Business Object/Predictive Analytics/HANA and designing useful visualization solutions and predictive models for different types of analytics problems.

The topic will be on environmental issues.

Your main task is to apply any of the analytical tools to develop innovative analytics visualization solutions and predictive models with regards to environment, e.g. climate change, energy consumption, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emission, pollution dashboard, etc.

Besides the suggested datasets/sources, you may apply any other real-world dataset to illustrate your approach (the different datasets can be combined too). Please find the attached sample reports

Some possible datasets/sources:

http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx

http://data.worldbank.org/topic/environment

https://data.oecd.org/ http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/publisher/eea

https://www.data.gov/

Watson Analytics Tutorials:

http://bigdatauniversity.com/courses/watson-analytics-fundamentals/

Watson Analytics -IBM TV How-To Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6D7Ekh27J6Axp9BNKyLQ3w

You will also submit a 9-10 pages report (about 3000 words not counting cover page and references) of this project.

At least 15 references in your report must be from peer- reviewed sources.

Include any and all sources of information including any person(s) you interviewed for this project.

Please note that all references must adhere to APA style.

All reports must use the APA referencing style.