Seven Tools for Quality

This week you have learned about the seven tools of quality. These tools are essential within the workplace and will improve your work environment if used properly. Using your current workplace as an example (if you are not employed, you may use a previous employer or fictional company) determine how the seven tools of quality can be used to improve your company. You will expand on your thoughts pertaining to the use of all seven tools. If there are tools that you feel would not be beneficial, expand upon why you feel this way. Use your course materials and outside research to generate a solid analysis on why these methods would be helpful. Your analysis should be supported by research.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

Your memo will be on the topic of: How might the DHS look and function if civil rights and civil liberties were not valued?

Your answer to the following question can assist you in developing your memo: If the DHS employed a true public-order approach to combating terrorism, what would they do differently right now?

Assignment Guidelines

• Use your course materials, the library, and relevant Internet research options to research what the Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) does, and how its operations affect homeland security policy decisions.
• Address the following in 2-3 pages:
  • What functions does the Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) perform? Explain.
    • This is the starting point for this assignment. Once you understand what the office does, then you can start to work on identifying how the DHS might change its function if civil rights and civil liberties were no longer a requirement.
  • Do the activities and operations of the Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) impact homeland security policy decisions? Why or why not? Explain in detail.
  • How might the DHS change its function if civil rights and civil liberties were no longer a requirement? Explain in detail.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

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Your memo will be on the topic of: How might the DHS look and function if civil rights and civil liberties were not valued?

Intro to Data Mining

• Obtain one of the data sets available at the UCI Machine Learning Repository and apply as many of the different visualization techniques described in the chapter as possible. The bibliographic notes and book Web site provide pointers to visualization software.
• Identify at least two advantages and two disadvantages of using color to visually represent information.
• Describe one advantage and one disadvantage of a stem and leaf plot with respect to a standard histogram.
• How might you address the problem that a histogram depends on the number and location of the bins?
• Describe how a box plot can give information about whether the value of an attribute is symmetrically distributed. What can you say about the symmetry of the distributions of the attributes shown in Figure 3.11?
• Compare sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width, using Figure3.12.
• Comment on the use of a box plot to explore a data set with four attributes: age, weight, height, and income.
• Give a possible explanation as to why most of the values of petal length and width fall in the buckets along the diagonal in Figure 3.9.
• Use Figures 3.14 and 3.15 to identify a characteristic shared by the petal width and petal length attributes.
• Simple line plots, such as that displayed in Figure 2.12 on page 56, which shows two time series, can be used to effectively display high-dimensional data. For example, in Figure 2.12 it is easy to tell that the frequencies of the two time series are different. What characteristic of time series allows the effective visualization of high-dimensional data?
• Describe the types of situations that produce sparse or dense data cubes. Illustrate with examples other than those used in the book.
• How might you extend the notion of multidimensional data analysis so that the target variable is a qualitative variable? In other words, what sorts of summary statistics or data visualizations would be of interest?
• Construct a data cube from Table 3.14. Is this a dense or sparse data cube? If it is sparse, identify the cells that are empty.
• Discuss the differences between dimensionality reduction based on aggregation and dimensionality reduction based on techniques such as PCA and SVD.

1. What are the arrangement issues that arise with respect to three-dimensional plots?

1. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using sampling to reduce the number of data objects that need to be displayed. Would simple random sampling (without replacement) be a good approach to sampling? Why or why not?

1. Describe how you would create visualizations to display information that de-scribes the following types of systems.

• Computer networks. Be sure to include both the static aspects of the network, such as connectivity, and the dynamic aspects, such as traffic.
• The distribution of specific plant and animal species around the world fora specific moment in time.
• The use of computer resources, such as processor time, main memory, and disk, for a set of benchmark database programs.
• The change in occupation of workers in a particular country over the last thirty years. Assume that you have yearly information about each person that also includes gender and level of education.

Be sure to address the following issues:

• Representation.How will you map objects, attributes, and relation-ships to visual elements?
• Arrangement. Are there any special considerations that need to be taken into account with respect to how visual elements are displayed? Specific examples might be the choice of viewpoint, the use of transparency, or the separation of certain groups of objects.
• Selection.How will you handle a large number of attributes and data objects

Unit 5 Assignment 2 – Software

Submit Assignment

• Due Sunday by 11:59pm
• Points 25
• Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload

Instructions

Interacting Using the Project Team Management Software

Over the next several weeks we will be using Freedcamp to simulate team communication and project management. Your instructor will assign you to teams of approximately 3-5 individuals. You will be setting up the software, creating a project, interacting using the software, and reporting on its use.

• • Freedcamp – https://freedcamp.com
  • Tour – https://freedcamp.com/tour
  • Tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCntHp8am8zrxXEb_9…
• Demonstrate the use of the software tool by interacting with it.
• Post messages to teammates, upload files to the system, make notes on tasks, mark some tasks as complete.
• Write a short (250 word) explanation of what you did, and include a variety of screenshots from multiple students demonstrating the interactions that you have had.

Estimated time to complete: 4 hours

Rubric

BU329 Unit 5 Assignment 2 – Software

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