The country representatives have accepted your proposal. Please go ahead with carrying out the activities/tasks mentioned in the proposal (part 1). In addition to the activities stated in part 1, the representatives would also like you to include the following items in your report:
1. Explore the relationship across a pair of different aspects of the country over time. For example, is there a relationship between the population and the environment indicators over time? Can this relationship be quantified? Note, that your choice of aspects could be influenced by the available data.
2. Construct a confidence interval for one of the aspects. Please state all assumptions clearly and provide an interpretation of the interval.
3. Are there any legal or privacy issues with the data that is being used in the report? Please provide some details/justification.
The three requests above must be incorporated into the methodology section i.e. update the methodology section from part 1. As before, we are expected to apply the knowledge from the unit modules to address these requests. One of the main features of the final report is the results of the analysis. For this section you are expected to produce a dashboard using the data for your country. The dashboard is simply a collection of different types of graphs (similar to the ones in our tutorial/lab work). The emphasis is presenting the data using different types of plots such as time series plots, scatter plots, histograms, box plots and/or cumulative percentage charts. Ensure that the plot type is matched well with the data that is being used. In addition to this, results should also include numerical data summaries as well as the analysis pertaining to the first two requests.
Lastly, it is very important that we provide brief commentary on all plots/results of the analysis. The commentary is expected to be based on the content covered in the unit. The final report should contain the following components:
Title page – update from part 1 Cover letter – update from part 1: This should now also include an updated
statement about what the report is about. It should explicitly state any changes (if applicable) that you have made since the original proposal.
Tables of contents – update from part 1 Executive summary – A brief outline/summary of what the report contains. This
summary must be between 0.75 to 1 page maximum. This summary must NOT contain any plots and/or tables. It is strongly advised that this section be written at the end once all the other sections have been finalised.
Introduction – update from part 1 (proposal section): Incorporate the coverage of the new requests.