BDA601—Big Data and Analytics Assessment

Task Summary

Any enterprise-level, big-data, analytics project aimed at solving a real-world problem will generally comprise three phases:

1. Data preparation;

2. Data analysis and visualisation; and

3. Making decisions based on the analysis or insights.

In this Assessment, you will help the global community in its fight against COVID-19 by discovering meaningful insights in a dataset compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

Given the significance of the issue, you will slice and dice the data using different methods and drill down to gain insights that will help the individuals concerned make the right decisions. Please refer to the Task Instructions (below) for details on how to complete this task.