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Big Data and Cloud Computing
2,500 words
Big Data and Cloud Computing: FieldVision Cloud-Based Big Data Solution for AgroNova
This assessment is a 2,500-word individual report for the Big Data and Cloud Computing module within the MSc Management with Data Analytics programme at BPP University. The report is based on a fictional agricultural technology company, AgroNova, and its FieldVision project. AgroNova provides climate change and crop monitoring services to farmers in the UK and intends to expand internationally. However, its existing ageing infrastructure and manual processes present challenges to international expansion and the development of data-driven decision-making. The FieldVision project aims to use Internet of Things (IoT) technology and cloud-based big data solutions to collect, store and analyse real-time information from agricultural environments. The report requires students to act as a big data and cloud solution consultant and provide recommendations to senior management at AgroNova. The project involves IoT devices such as CropCam aerial cameras supplied by HydroSense and SmartHarvester solar-powered sensors supplied by SoilTech. These technologies collect information including crop imagery, soil moisture, temperature and humidity. The resulting data can support crop monitoring, risk assessment, early warning alerts, irrigation decisions, crop-failure claims validation and other farming-related insights. The first task focuses on Big Data Requirements and Storage Solutions. Students must identify the requirements arising from the scenario and critically evaluate a range of cloud-based big data storage solutions. The evaluation should consider factors such as capacity, functionality and costs. The second task requires students to propose one appropriate cloud-based solution architecture supported by an architecture diagram showing the essential components from data sources through to reporting. The selected architecture must be analysed in relation to AgroNova's requirements and the storage solutions considered in Task 1. The third task addresses Project Risks and Issues. Students must critically appraise the risks and issues associated with deploying the proposed cloud-based big data solution and identify appropriate mitigation approaches. These issues should be connected directly to the storage solutions and proposed architecture. The scenario highlights concerns from AgroNova's CISO, CFO and Chief Reputation Officer regarding potential data breaches, high costs and poor returns on investment, making security, financial viability and organisational risk important considerations. The report should contain an approximately 200-word introduction, an 800-word analysis of Big Data Requirements and Storage Solutions, a 500-word Proposed System Architecture section supported by relevant diagrams, an 800-word Project Risks and Issues section, and an approximately 200-word conclusion. Harvard referencing, academic research and appropriate supporting appendices are also required. The assessment addresses three learning outcomes: designing an architecture that supports complex data collection, critically evaluating data storage solutions from an enterprise systems perspective, and critically appraising issues involved in enterprise-system deployment.
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Data Warehousing and Big Data
Data Warehousing and Big Data – Inventory Management Data Warehouse
This individual coursework for CS7079 Data Warehousing and Big Data requires students to design, implement and test a data warehouse based on a business case scenario and then export and migrate data to a Big Data platform for further processing. The assessment focuses on the inventory management business process of ABC Consumer Electronics Outlet Ltd, a multi-channel consumer electronics retailer operating from six stores around London and conducting online business across the UK and Europe. The company manages more than 10,000 products across approximately ten categories and more than 200 brands. The company already uses cloud-based and business applications including Vend, Linnworks and Xerox, which generate large volumes of transactional data. However, these datasets are stored separately by the individual applications, making it difficult for managers to produce integrated reports and perform analysis to support business decision-making. A business analyst has therefore recommended the development of a data warehouse capable of meeting the company's reporting and analytical requirements. For this coursework, the solution is focused specifically on the inventory management business process. The inventory management case involves three main business activities: sending purchase orders to suppliers when stock reaches minimum levels, receiving purchase orders and storing stock in appropriate locations, and controlling and maintaining stock levels including adding new products and adjusting existing stock. The required analysis includes daily stock levels for the previous month, weekly identification of products at minimum stock levels, analysis of stock levels by brand, product type and supplier, daily and weekly sent and received stock orders, and analysis of received stock orders by supplier and month. Students must analyse and design a dimensional data model that represents these business activities. This includes defining the grain of three central fact tables, identifying appropriate dimensions, defining dimension attributes and fact measures, and producing simple star schemas showing the relationships between fact tables and dimensions. The design must be justified according to the available data sources and the reporting and analysis requirements. The implementation stage requires students to create the relational database using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Students must create the database, dimension tables and fact tables, establish appropriate primary-key and foreign-key constraints, and demonstrate implementation and testing through SQL commands and their results. Test data must then be populated into the data warehouse. The Big Data component requires migration of test data from the data warehouse to an Apache Hadoop platform using the Hortonworks Data Platform. Students must export the data warehouse data to an external data file, migrate the file into Apache HDFS, create a suitable data structure for loading the data into Hive, and demonstrate Apache Pig for manipulating the loaded data. Implementation and testing of the Big Data storage environment must also be demonstrated through commands and results. The coursework concludes with a personal reflective section in which students discuss what they have learned throughout the overall coursework and the challenges encountered during the process. The final submission is expected to be a well-written, structured and well-presented report combining data warehouse design, database implementation, testing, Big Data migration and reflective learning.
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Data Management / Business Analytics
2,500 words
Data and Decision Making (BS776) — Business Report: Two-Source Data Analysis in Python for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
This Level 7 report applies data management theory to a self-selected industry problem and carries it through to a working Python analysis and a defensible business recommendation. The brief is deliberately open on sector — finance, healthcare, transport, cyber security, business intelligence and others are all permitted — but firm on one point: the chosen topic must carry a genuine business implication rather than being a purely technical or clinical analysis. The work therefore begins by framing a specific data-driven decision the organisation needs to make, and returns to that decision at every stage. Two distinct data sources are then identified from approved open repositories and critically evaluated side by side. The evaluation covers the data types each holds, how the data was collected and what bias that introduces, how each is stored and managed, and where the weaknesses lie — proposing concrete data management solutions for the problems identified rather than simply cataloguing them. The analytical core examines, transforms and explores both datasets using univariate and multivariate techniques. All work is carried out in Python within Google Colab, with full screenshots of the code and outputs placed in the appendices and the live Colab link shared for verification. Charts and tables sit in the main body where they support interpretation, each labelled and referenced back to its data source, and each appendix is cited from the narrative so the reader can move between argument and evidence. Data cleaning and transformation steps are shown and justified, not glossed. Findings are reported at length and converted into a clear recommendation covering both the immediate decision and the current and future direction of data management for the business. The limitations section is written honestly — sample coverage, data recency, the assumptions the transformation forced, and what the proposed solution cannot address. Running alongside this, the module's weekly consolidation discussions are evidenced. Five or more critical responses across units two to nine are screenshotted, dated, individually labelled as appendices, and each supported by academic and practice references. Crucially, these are not left sitting in the appendix: they are cited and used within the main body to support the critical discussion, which is where the marks for that component sit. The report follows the prescribed structure — title page, executive summary, contents, introduction, main section with subsections per task, findings, recommendations, limitations, conclusion, Harvard reference list and full appendices — submitted as a single file.
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