SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis
As discussed in the chapter, the primary purpose of the SWOT analysis is to identify and assign significant factors that affect the business to one of the four categories to analyze where it stands in the market and help guide an organization’s strategic planning process.

Don’t worry about elaborating on the nature of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; bullet points are sufficient at this stage of the analysis. Just capture the factors that are relevant in each of the four areas using two or three words to describe them.

After listing factors in all four areas, compare your lists side by side to get an overall picture of how the businesses is performing and what issues need to be addressed. Create four prioritized lists by prioritizing the issues by importance and ease of implementation by asking yourself “What needs to and can be addressed now?” and “What can and will have to wait until later?”

Finally, review the prioritized lists by asking:

How can we use our strengths to take advantage of the opportunities identified?
How can we use these strengths to overcome the threats identified?
What do we need to do to overcome the identified weaknesses to take advantage of the listed opportunities?
How can we minimize our weaknesses to overcome the identified threats?
When you have your finalized lists, the SWOT analysis is ready to guide the process of developing corporate and IT strategies. The value of a SWOT analysis depends on how well the analysis is performed. To gain the greatest value from performing a SWOT, carrying out the SWOT early on in the strategic planning process and following these rules helps:

Be realistic about the strengths and weaknesses of your organization.
Be realistic about the size of the opportunities and threats.
Be specific and keep the analysis simple or as simple as possible.
Evaluate your company’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to those of competitors (better than or worse than competitors).
Expect conflicting views because SWOT is subjective, forward-looking, and based on assumptions.
Have Fun with a Personal SWOT
To identify the actions you can take to best meet the requirements of the job or promotion you are seeking, conduct a personal SWOT analysis. To help you understand yourself, picture yourself as a competitive product in the marketplace, and list your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, or threats from the perspective of a prospective “customer,” that is, your employer. Comparing your strengths and weaknesses to job requirements will help you identify gaps, prepare you to be the best candidate for the position you are seeking, and alert you to issues that could arise in the interview process.

The paper should be three to four pages long following APA format.

 
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Graduate Professional Experience II DEC 1

Week 4 Assignment Part 1:

Create a document that contains answers to the following questions:

1. My long-term career goal (3-5 years) is to be a (an):

a. Find this job on a company website or job board and include a link to it or copy and paste the job description.

b. To obtain this position, I foresee myself having to:

c. The date I have set to obtain this career goal is:

Week 4 Assignment Part 2:

2. My ultimate career goal is to be a (an):

a. Find this job on a company website or job board and include a link to it or copy and paste the job description.

b. In this position, I will perform the following tasks:

c. The date I have set to obtain this career tool is:

Your submission should be a minimum of two pages of content in length. Please type all work, save it as a doc or pdf and upload here. All work must be submitted in APA format.

Assignments with a similarity report greater than 10% will not be graded. 

 
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Project 1: Vulnerability Process And Assessment Memo

Project Scenario

 

Previously, the CEO told you about the breach at a rival company and his concerns for security at Mercury USA. In light of these developments, Mercury USA has decided to conduct vulnerability assessments. An outside firm has conducted penetration tests on Mercury’s systems and provided the reports. Now, it is up to you as the cyber threat analyst to look at those reports, apply them to the specific company setup and business needs, and recommend changes.

Mercury USA’s concerns:

· protecting customer information

· protecting proprietary business data

· protecting dangerous loads/hazardous materials during transportation

Before you came onboard, a third-party penetration tester was brought in to assess Mercury USA’s security posture and network. One of the findings from the pen test report was the realization that an important part of a VM process is a vulnerability scanner. The pen tester provided a scan report using the free tool Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS). Judy has provided you with the OpenVAS report for your initial analysis.

 
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Network Week 3 Labs

Network Pro Complete the following labs in LabSim:

  • 4.2.3 ReConnect to an Ethernet Network
  • 4.3.3 Connect Network Devices
  • 4.4.5 Exploring Physical Connectivity
  • 4.4.6 Troubleshoot Physical Connectivity 1
  • 4.4.7 Troubleshoot Physical Connectivity 2
  • 4.4.8 Troubleshoot Physical Connectivity 3
  • 4.4.9 Troubleshoot Physical Connectivity 4
  • 5.1.7 Configure IP Addresses
  • 5.1.8 Configure IP Addresses on Mobile Devices
  • 5.2.3 Configure Alternate Addressing
  • 5.3.2 Configure a DHCP Server
  • 5.3.4 Configure DHCP Options
  • 5.3.5 Create DHCP Exclusions
  • 5.3.6 Create DHCP Client Reservations
  • 5.3.8 Configure a DHCP Client
  • 5.4.3 Configure a DHCP Relay Agent
  • 5.4.4.Add a DHCP Server on Another Subnet
  • 5.5.4 Configure DNS Addresses
  • 5.5.5 Create Standard DNS Zones
  • 5.5.6 Create Reverse DNS Zones
  • 5.5.7 Create Host records
  • 5.5.8 Create CNAME Records
  • 5.5.9 Troubleshoot DNS Records
  • 5.6.9 Configure IPv6 Server
  • 5.8.5 Explore IP Configuration
  • 5.8.6 Troubleshoot IP Configuration Problems 1
  • 5.8.7 Troubleshoot IP Configuration Problems 2
  • 5.8.8 Troubleshoot IP Configuration Problems 3
  • 5.8.9 Troubleshoot IP Configuration Problems 4
  • 5.9.6 Exploring Network Communications
  • 5.10.4 Explore nslookup

Exam

 
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Capstone Ethical Case Analysis

Capstone Ethical Case Analysis

Being able to recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgements in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles is an important student learning outcome for any ABET accredited computing program. To see how well you are able to apply ethical reasoning, we have put together a case for each team member to complete. Complete your responses to these questions and submit your work to the Blackboard Assignment Folder. Faculty will evaluate your responses against our ABET rubric to see how well our program is training students to think ethically as well as technically.

 

Question 1 – What is your Ethical Self-Awareness? What codes of conduct/professional guidelines/legislation guide your thinking? Check out ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct – https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics for one example of professional ethics.

· Are there any other professional codes of conduct, legislation, or business conduct guidelines that influence you?

· Can you describe the history of how your professional beliefs/conduct/guidelines that you follow can into being?

· Any thoughts as to why professional conduct is important?

 

 

Next, Read the case presented below.

 

 

The Copyright Concerns Case by Clare Bartlett – Obtained from: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/more/engineering-ethics/engineering-ethics-cases/copyright-concerns/

 

SDX Alliance is a large company that sells computers, computer components, and software. Ralph is hired as an entry-level software engineer at SDX Alliance. His first project was to assist in writing the code for SDX Alliance’s new hard disc controller. He had previously worked on a similar system interning at a start-up and had written a code which greatly enhanced the performance of their product. Ralph quietly re-uses this same code in the SDX Alliance product, and does not think to tell anyone that he has used the code from his last job. His manager is thrilled with the speed improvements this code brings to the product.

 

Before the product is released, it has to undergo a four-month long quality assurance process review. During the review of the product, it was found the code which Ralph developed had been copyrighted by the startup he had previously worked for. Even though Ralph had developed the code, his previous company still owned the intellectual property rights to it.

 

When his manager informed Ralph of the problem, Ralph admits he did not realize he had made a mistake because he was not familiar with copyright laws. Ralph then goes on to explain that the start-up he used to work for is now out of business and is unsure if SDX Alliance would be able to get in contact with the owner of the copyright. If SDX Alliance can’t use Ralph’s code, then it will have to rewrite the entire code of the product, delaying its release by many months.

 

What should they do?

 

 

Question 2 – Describe the Ethical Issues in this case. What are the ethical/socio-technical issues that you observed in this case? Some examples of ethical issues are privacy, security, intellectual property, potential for abuse of power, honesty, quality of life (work life), and sustainability?

 

Question 3 – Describe your Ethical Approach or Reasoning Strategy. This is a two part question.

Part A – What alternatives are available for resolving this case? Think about what options are available for addressing these ethical/social-technical issues for this case.

Part B – What decision thought process(s) or criteria did you decide to use in order to evaluate the various alternatives available for addressing the ethical/legal issues. Check out the Ethical Decision Making Page (https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/) from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University for some approaches to consider.

 

Question 4 – Describe your Application of Ethical Approach/Reasoning Strategy in order to evaluate your Options. For each of the alternatives that you identified as part of Question 3, describe the results of your evaluation process. What are the pros and cons of each alternative?

 

Question 5 – Present your Final Position – What was your ultimate decision in how to address those ethical/social-technical issues for this case? Why do you feel this decision was the most appropriate one to follow?

 
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MIS 180 SIMNET ASSIGNMENTS

Excel 2013 Chapter 2 Working with Formulas and Functions Last Updated: 2/4/15 Page 1

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL 2013 Independent Project 2-5

Independent Project 2-5 When San Diego Sailing received its end-of-year financial reports, its financial officers decided to evaluate the rental rates schedule for boats. You have been asked to create a spreadsheet to compare three different proposed rate changes that the group is considering implementing in the new year and to update information on the boat fleet.

Skills Covered in This Project

 Create and copy formulas.

 Apply mathematical order of operations.

 Use relative, absolute, and mixed cell references.

 Apply the IF function.

 Name cells and use the name range in a

formula.

 Apply the TODAY function.

 

 

1. Open the SanDiego-02.xlsx start file. The file will be renamed automatically to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to do so by your instructor, and save it.

NOTE: If the workbook opens in Protected View, click the Enable Editing button in the Message Bar at the

top of the workbook so you can modify it.

2. Select H4 and create an IF function formula to determine which boats include a stove with the galley. Boats

must be able to seat 8 or more people to have a stove in the galley.

a. Use “Yes” for the value_if_true argument.

b. Use “No” for the value_if_false argument.

c. Copy the formula in H4 to H5:H18.

3. Insert a worksheet and name the sheet Data.

4. Type the following information in the new worksheet:

 

5. Format the table text on the Data sheet.

a. Merge and Center the text in A3 over A3:B3.

b. Apply Accent 1 cell style to A3 and apply bold format.

c. Select A3:B6 and apply the All Borders format.

6. Select A4:B6 and assign range names using the Create from Selection button on the

Formulas tab.

NOTE: To ensure accurate grading, you must complete step 6 correctly before continuing

with the project. Check your work carefully.

7. Select J4 on the Fleet worksheet, and create a formula to calculate a 5% increase for the data

in the “4 Hr. Rate” column using the range name assigned on the Data sheet.

a. Type =. b. Select F4 and type *. c. Press F3 to open the Paste Name dialog box.

d. Select _ 5_Increase and click OK.

e. Press Enter. Copy the formula to row 18.

 

Step 1

Download start file

 

 

 

 

Excel 2013 Chapter 2 Working with Formulas and Functions Last Updated: 2/4/15 Page 2

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL 2013 Independent Project 2-5

8. Create formulas for K4:O4 and copy the formulas to row 18.

9. Select the amounts in columns F, G, and J:O and apply the Number format.

10. Select A1 and type San Diego Sailing.

11. Format A1 using the Title cell style and apply bold format. Adjust the column width.

12. Insert a row above the current row 2. Clear the formatting of the new row 2.

NOTE: To ensure accurate grading, you must complete step 12. Check your work carefully.

13. Insert the TODAY() function in A2. Format the date as 11 pt. bold and align left.

14. Change the date format to display the month as a word followed by the day and year.

15. Apply the All Borders format to rows 4 through 19.

16. Click the Insert tab and click the Header & Footer button.

a. Switch to the Footer area.

b. Click the right text box and type Page followed by a space. c. Click the Page Number button on the Header & Footer Tools Design tab.

d. Click the worksheet and return to Normal view.

17. Paste range names in a worksheet.

a. Click the Data sheet tab and select cell A15.

b. Click the Use in Formula button [Formulas tab, Defined Names group].

c. Click Paste Names.

d. Click the Paste List button in the Paste Name dialog box.

e. Click OK.

18. Save and close the workbook (Figure 2-74).

19. Upload and save your project file.

20. Submit project for grading.

 

 

Step 2

Upload & Save

Step 3

Grade my Project

2-74 Excel 2-5 completed

 
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Unit 4 Discussion: Web Services And Web Pages

POST I HAVE TO ANSWER

Web services and web pages are very different entities. It is important to understand how they work together as part of a Cloud solution. What are the differences between web pages and web services? Describe how they work together and why they are important to each other. Is one more important than the other? Back up your opinion with facts!

Be sure to use at least 2 external sources and to include all of your sources by providing citations/links to the Web pages you used in APA format.

 

 

POST 1

What are the differences between web pages and web services?

A Web service is a web application component that uses standardized format like XML to interact with other web applications over internet. Whereas a website is a collection of webpages put together which are accessed by a web browser.

The difference between a web service and a website or webpage are as follows:

Web Service

A web service doesn’t have a user interface.

Web services are meant for other applications to be interacted with over internet.

Web services are platform independent as they use open protocols.

Web services are accessed by HTTP methods – GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc.

Example – Google maps API is a web service that can be used by websites to display Maps by passing coordinates to it.

Website or page

A website has a user interface or GUI.

Websites are meant for use by humans.

Websites are cross platform as they require tweaking to operate on different browsers, operating systems etc.

Websites are accessed by using their GUI components – buttons, text boxes, forms etc.

 

Describe how they work together and why they are important to each other. Is one more important than the other?

Web services are the primary way to for businesses to communicate with each other and with clients. Allowing them to communicate without intimate knowledge of each other’s IT systems behind the firewall. Both web services and websites work together, one is informational and the other is interactive, one is not more important than the other.

References

N.A. (N.D.). What is the difference between webpages, website, web server, and search engine? MDN web docs. Retrieved from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Pages_sites_servers_and_search_engines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Segue Technologies. (2013, March 13). What Are Web Services and Where Are They Used? Segue III Technologies. Retrieved from https://www.seguetech.com/web-services/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

 

POST 2

Web Pages

Web pages are used to display the company site, which would say amazon or google chrome. This document is created for the visitors that come to look at the services provided, because you could have a document that shows every available service that is offered. This would be called a web site, because It would have multiple pages tied together. The real power of the page come from the links, which would redirect you to the services available. In conclusion a web page is just a document that displays the company in a web browser.

Web services

Web services would be classified as IaaS, SaaS, GaaS, and IDaas. Web services provide a service through multiple servers, which would consist of virtual machines with software installed. This is just one way you could provide a service, because your email client would not work without the VM. The next service would be data storage, because many companies like to have an offsite backup. This would be another service offered as a web services. There are many web services that can be provided, so web services offer customers a service and the web page is just a document displaying the company information.

How do they work together

I will a brief minute and explain how the web page works with the web services. The web page would show the company logo, which is tied to the services as well. Once you reach the web page, then it would contain links to the services and have any information about the company. Some companies would have multiple pages, because they want you to know where they started from. The main purpose for having a web page, consist of the name, information about the company, links to the services, and the company history.

References

MDN.(2019).What is the between webpage, website, web server, and search engine. Retrieve by:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Pages_sites_servers_and_search_engines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

 

Margaret.R(2013).AWS. Retrieved by:

 https://searchaws.techtarget.com/definition/Amazon-Web-Services (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

 
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Principal Components And Factor Analysis Using Python Code In 40 Hours

#This assignment is a tutorial so have a bit of fun with it

#If you would like to explore some additional options give it a try

 

#Goal is to provide some meaningful info to the restaurant owner

 

#Some notes below

#Both PCA and FA provide useful summary info for multivariate data, but

#all of the original variables are needed for their calculation, so

#the big question is can we use them to find a subset of variables to

#predict overall score?

#Also,trying to give meaningful labels to components is really hard.

#When the variables are on different scales you need to work with the

#correlation matrix. For this assignment they are on same scale so

#we will work with the raw data.

#PCA only helps if the original variables are correlated, if they

#are independent PCA will not help.

 

#Approach takes two steps

#First step find the dimensionality of the data, that is the

#number of original variables to be retained

#Second step find which ones, more on this below

 

# import packages for this example

import pandas as pd

import numpy as np # arrays and math functions

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # static plotting

from sklearn.decomposition import PCA, FactorAnalysis

import statsmodels.formula.api as smf # R-like model specification

 

#Set some display options

pd.set_option(‘display.notebook_repr_html’, False)

pd.set_option(‘display.max_columns’, 40)

pd.set_option(‘display.max_rows’, 10)

pd.set_option(‘display.width’, 120)

 

#Read in the restaurant dataset

food_df = pd.read_csv(‘C:/Users/Jahee Koo/Desktop/MSPA/2018_Winter_410_regression/HW03 PCA/FACTOR1.csv’)

#A good step to take is to convert all variable names to lower case

food_df.columns = [s.lower() for s in food_df.columns]

print(food_df)

 

print(”)

print(‘—– Summary of Input Data —–‘)

print(”)

 

# show the object is a DataFrame

print(‘Object type: ‘, type(food_df))

 

# show number of observations in the DataFrame

print(‘Number of observations: ‘, len(food_df))

 

# show variable names

print(‘Variable names: ‘, food_df.columns)

 

# show descriptive statistics

print(food_df.describe())

 

# show a portion of the beginning of the DataFrame

print(food_df.head())

 

#look at correlation structure

cdata = food_df.loc[:,[‘overall’,’taste’,’temp’,’freshness’,’wait’,’clean’,’friend’,’location’,’parking’,’view’]]

corr = cdata[cdata.columns].corr()

print(corr)

#Use the correlation matrix to help provide advice to the restaurant owner

 

#Look at four different models and compare them

#Which model do you think is best and why?

#Model 1 full regression model

#Model 2 select my reduced regression model taste, wait and location

#Model 3 Full PCA model

#Model 4 Reduced PCA model with parking, taste and clean

#Model 5 FA model

 

#First find the PCA

#Second find the FA

#Run the models

#Compare the models and show VIF for each model

 

#PCA

print(”)

print(‘—– Principal Component Analysis —–‘)

print(”)

pca_data = food_df.loc[:,[‘taste’,’temp’,’freshness’,’wait’,’clean’,’friend’,’location’,’parking’,’view’]]

pca = PCA()

P = pca.fit(pca_data)

print(pca_data)

np.set_printoptions(threshold=np.inf)

np.around([pca.components_], decimals=3)

#Note per Everett p209 pick the three variables with the largest

#absolute coefficient on the component not already picked

#So, choose parking, taste and clean for the PCA variable reduction model

 

# show summary of pca solution

pca_explained_variance = pca.explained_variance_ratio_

print(‘Proportion of variance explained:’, pca_explained_variance)

 

# note that principal components analysis corresponds

# to finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the pca_data

pca_data_cormat = np.corrcoef(pca_data.T)

eigenvalues, eigenvectors = np.linalg.eig(pca_data_cormat)

np.around([eigenvalues], decimals=3)

 

print(‘Linear algebra demonstration: Proportion of variance explained: ‘,

eigenvalues/eigenvalues.sum())

np.around([eigenvectors], decimals=3)

 

# show the plot for the pricipal component analysis

plt.bar(np.arange(len(pca_explained_variance)), pca_explained_variance,

color = ‘grey’, alpha = 0.5, align = ‘center’)

plt.title(‘PCA Proportion of Total Variance’)

plt.show()

 

# show a scree plot

d = {‘eigenvalues’: eigenvalues }

df1 = pd.DataFrame(data=d)

df2 =pd.Series([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9])

#df2 = {‘factors’: factors}

# merge eigenvalues with # of factors

result = pd.concat([df1, df2], axis=1, join_axes=[df2.index])

print (result)

 

def scat(dataframe,var1,var2):

dataframe[var2].plot()

plt.title(‘Scree Plot’)

plt.xlabel(‘# of factors’)

plt.ylabel(‘Eigenvalues’)

 

scat(result,’0′,’eigenvalues’)

plt.show()

 

# provide partial listing of variable loadings on principal components

# transpose for variables by components listing

pca_loadings = pca.components_.T

 

# provide full formatted listing of loadings for first three components

# print loadings while rounding to three digits

# and suppress printing of very small numbers

# but do not suppress printing of zeroes

np.set_printoptions(precision = 3, suppress = True,

formatter={‘float’: ‘{: 0.3f}’.format})

print(pca_loadings[:,0:3])

 

# compute full set of principal components (scores)

C = pca.transform(pca_data)

print(C)

# add first three principal component scores to the original data frame

pca_data[‘pca1’] = C[:,0]

pca_data[‘pca2’] = C[:,1]

pca_data[‘pca3’] = C[:,2]

print(pca_data)

# add first three principal component scores to the food_df

food_df[‘pca1’] = C[:,0]

food_df[‘pca2’] = C[:,1]

food_df[‘pca3’] = C[:,2]

print(food_df)

 

# explore relationships between pairs of principal components

# working with the first three components only

pca_scores = pca_data.loc[:,[‘pca1′,’pca2’, ‘pca3’]]

pca_model_cormat = \

np.corrcoef(pca_scores.as_matrix().transpose()).round(decimals=3)

print(pca_model_cormat)

#Looks like that worked

 

#Factor Analysis

print(”)

print(‘—– Factor Analysis (Unrotated) —–‘)

print(”)

 

# assume three factors will be sufficient

# this is an unrotated orthogonal solution

# maximum likelihood estimation is employed

# for best results set tolerance low and max iterations high

fa = FactorAnalysis(n_components = 3, tol=1e-8, max_iter=1000000)

 

#the unrotated solution

fa.fit(pca_data)

 

# retrieve the factor loadings as an array of arrays

# transpose for variables by factors listing of loadings

fa_loadings = fa.components_.T

print(fa_loadings)

 

# show the loadings of the variables on the factors

# for the unrotated maximum likelihood solution

# print loadings while rounding to three digits

# and suppress printing of very small numbers

# but do not suppress printing of zeroes

np.set_printoptions(precision = 3, suppress = True,

formatter={‘float’: ‘{: 0.3f}’.format})

print(fa_loadings)

 

# compute full set of factor scores

F = fa.transform(pca_data)

print(F)

# add factor scores to the original data frame

food_df[‘fa1’] = F[:,0]

food_df[‘fa2’] = F[:,1]

food_df[‘fa3’] = F[:,2]

print(food_df)

 

#Look at five different models and compare them

#Which model do you think is best and why?

#Model 1 full regression model

#Model 2 select my reduced regression model taste, wait and location

#Model 3 Full PCA model

#Model 4 Reduced PCA model with parking, taste and clean

#Model 5 FA model

 

#Run the Models

#Model 1 full model

regress_model_fit = smf.ols(formula = ‘overall~taste+temp+freshness+wait+clean+friend+location+parking+view’, data = food_df).fit()

# summary of model fit

print(regress_model_fit.summary())

 

#Model 2

#Note, Model 2 is a choice from looking at the correlation, you may choose a

#different selection for this if you like, just explain why

regress_model_fit = smf.ols(formula = ‘overall~taste+wait+location’, data = food_df).fit()

# summary of model fit

print(regress_model_fit.summary())

 

#Model 3

#regress the response overall on principal components

pca_model_fit = smf.ols(formula = ‘overall~pca1+pca2+pca3’, data = food_df).fit()

# summary of model fit

print(pca_model_fit.summary())

 

#Model 4

#regress the response overall on principal components

pca_model_fit = smf.ols(formula = ‘overall~parking+taste+clean’, data = food_df).fit()

# summary of model fit

print(pca_model_fit.summary())

 

#Model 5

#regress the response overall on factor scores

fa_model_fit = smf.ols(formula = ‘overall~fa1+fa2+fa3’, data = food_df).fit()

# summary of model fit

print(fa_model_fit.summary())

 

#next look at VIF to see what the full, choice, PCA and FA models did

# Break into left and right hand side; y and X then find VIF for each model

import statsmodels.formula.api as sm

from patsy import dmatrices

from statsmodels.stats.outliers_influence import variance_inflation_factor

y = food_df.loc[:,[‘overall’]]

X = food_df.loc[:,[‘taste’,’temp’,’freshness’,’wait’,’clean’,’friend’,’location’,’parking’,’view’]]

y, X = dmatrices(‘overall ~ taste+temp+freshness+wait+clean+friend+location+parking+view ‘, data=food_df, return_type=”dataframe”)

 

# For each Xi, calculate VIF

vif = [variance_inflation_factor(X.values, i) for i in range(X.shape[1])]

print(”)

print(‘—– VIF for Full Regression Model —–‘)

print(”)

print(vif)

 

#VIF for choice model

y = food_df.loc[:,[‘overall’]]

X = food_df.loc[:,[‘taste’,’clean’,’location’]]

y, X = dmatrices(‘overall ~ taste+clean+location ‘, data=food_df, return_type=”dataframe”)

vif = [variance_inflation_factor(X.values, i) for i in range(X.shape[1])]

print(”)

print(‘—– VIF for Choice Model —–‘)

print(”)

print(vif)

 

#VIF for PCA

y = food_df.loc[:,[‘overall’]]

X = food_df.loc[:,[‘pca1′,’pca2′,’pca3’]]

y, X = dmatrices(‘overall ~ pca1+pca2+pca3 ‘, data=food_df, return_type=”dataframe”)

vif = [variance_inflation_factor(X.values, i) for i in range(X.shape[1])]

print(”)

print(‘—– VIF for PCA Model —–‘)

print(”)

print(vif)

 

#VIF for FA

y = food_df.loc[:,[‘overall’]]

X = food_df.loc[:,[‘fa1′,’fa2′,’fa3’]]

y, X = dmatrices(‘overall ~ fa1+fa2+fa3 ‘, data=food_df, return_type=”dataframe”)

vif = [variance_inflation_factor(X.values, i) for i in range(X.shape[1])]

print(”)

print(‘—– VIF for FA Model —–‘)

print(”)

print(vif)

 

#Which model do you like best and why?

#For the full regression model sum the coefficients for each three variable

#grouping, taste, temp freshness group 1

#wait, clean, friend group 2

# location, parking, view group 3

#How do you interpret this info?

#Compare with the choice model

 
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Communication In The Health Care Workplace

SEE THE ATTACHMENT

Question 2

What could the communication barrier of internal noise be described as?

Noise that comes from machines or music in the background

Listening to music while others are speaking

Ringing in the ears that distracts our thoughts

Our opinions and biases that influence our message

Question 3

Destructive communication can be escalated by why type of communication?

Supportive communication

Dependency communication

Defensive communication

Neutrality communication

Question 4

Which type of communication reinforces conformity rather than critical thinking?

Supportive communication

Neutrality communication

Defensive communication

Dependency communication

Question 5

Nonverbal communication is not categorized by:

Sending a message via email

People’s identities, emotions, and relationships

Nonverbal communication that makes up the bulk of the messages you send

Nonverbal messages that are sent in advance of verbal messages

Question 6

How can technology be a barrier to communication? 

Email can be used to communicate.

Video announcements share too much information.

Personal connection and a sense of relationship can be lost.

Technology is expensive.

Question 7

People typically identify with groups of people who share which of these cultural similarities? Choose 3 that apply. 

Body type

Views and beliefs

Language

Political ideology

Value system

Question 8

What is a power gradient?

When everyone on the team is at the same level in an organization

When someone does not speak up in a meeting because they are shy

When the electrical power fluctuates causing dimming of the lights

When there is a perceived difference in the importance of 1 role over another

Question 9

Cultural differences can be based on which of the following? Select all that apply.

Age

Education level

Religious customs

Sexual orientation

Eye color

Question 10

Which statement contributes to communication barriers?

Not making assumptions regarding a person’s behavior

Pretending that you understand the language breakdown during the communication process

Acknowledging and accepting the cultural differences

Avoiding cultural slang usage

Question 11

When discussing a project with Bob, you say, “The project plan presented last week has a couple of issues that need to be addressed.” Your statement to Bob is an example of what type of voice? 

Passive voice

Supportive voice

Active voice

Paraphrasing voice

Question 12

Which of these may be a factor in effective verbal communication if the speaker does not follow the local language’s word order, such as in Star Wars, when Yoda says, “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” 

Contextual rules

Socialism rules

Semantic rules

Syntactic rules

Question 13

Which type of communication works to resolve conflict and build relationships?

Defensive communication

Neutrality communication

Dependency communication

Supportive communication

Question 14

Select 3 principles of verbal communication.

Words do not mean the same thing to all people.

Recognize variations of how spoken language is used across cultures.

All languages have value.

Language does not have rules.

Everyone does not speak with a dialect.

Question 15

Which 3 of the following help to overcome perceptions? 

Asking questions for a better understanding

Believing the stereotypes that you read about

Distinguishing fact from opinion

Developing better listening skills

Question 16

Sound waves create a physiological response where the brain interprets the sound waves and correlates those with a meaning. What is this passive process known as? 

Transmitting

Listening

Reflecting

Hearing

Question 17

What is the earliest form of listening for a human that occurs when we do not yet understand the actual words used known as?

Biased listening

Discriminative listening

Comprehensive listening

Informational listening

Question 19

Perception is not based on:

Personal beliefs

Factual information that is presented

Cultural values

Prior experiences

Question 20

If highly technical terminology is used in a communication and is not understood by the audience, what form of noise is this? 

Semantic noise

Internal noise

External noise

Jargon noise

Question 21

In this emotional listening style, the hearer seeks to provide support and to put themselves in the place of the sender to experience the issue.

Sympathetic listening

Evaluative listening

Empathic listening

Supportive listening

Question 22

What does paraphrasing a message back to a speaker do?

Explains the reasons for feelings or behavior

Asks more questions to clarify

Uses your own words to summarize the content and feeling

Solves, judges, or advises

Question 23

Sandwiched criticism is when criticism is placed between 2 positive statements. Why might this be a poor approach? 

Sandwiched criticism comes across as a personal attack.

Sandwiched criticism places too much emphasis on the positive messages.

Sandwiched criticism makes the other person hungry.

Sandwiched criticism can cause confusion and send a mixed message.

Question 24

Which type of communication creates a climate for open exchange of ideas and thoughts? 

Neutrality communication

Supportive communication

Defensive communication

Dependency communication

Question 25

Which of the following is not a defensive behavior response? 

Neutrality

Equality

Control

Superiority

Question 26

Which statements promote effective verbal communication?

Verify all nonverbal messages.

Consider the messages you are communicating nonverbally.

Recognize how you communicate nonverbally.

Generalize that all nonverbal cues are the same for all people.

Question 27

Which of these factors should you consider in cross cultural communication?

Socioeconomic status

Marital status

Leadership status

Gender

Question 28

Which statement hinders the principles of cross-cultural communication?

A person does not use prior knowledge of cultural differences.

The greater the linguistic-cultural difference, the greater the likelihood of communication breakdown is.

Different cultures have different norms and taboos.

When communication breaks down with cross-cultural encounters, it is usually attributed to cultural differences.

Question 29

How do we minimize communication breakdown in meetings?

Ignore what is being said because you have the correct answer.

Write out your grocery list so you don’t forget any items.

There is no need to listen to the speaker; handouts will be given at the end of the meeting.

Recognize your personal perceptions during the communication process.

Question 30

Which 2 statements are true about nonverbal communication?

Trust is increased when nonverbal and verbal communication complement each other.

Nonverbal messages communicate much about relationships.

Nonverbal communication is an insignificant amount of the messages you send.

Nonverbal communication is not culture-bound and does not reflect the values and norms of a culture.

Question 31

Which approach would delay the process of communication cross-culturally?

High versus low power differences in relationships

Individualism versus collectivism

Self-management

Masculinity versus femininity

Question 32

How would supportive communication improve operational efficiency in an organization? 

Managers have more time for strategic planning.

Employees would withhold suggestions.

Volume of communication would increase.

Innovation and sharing of ideas would increase.

 
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Exam Project

Overview

This project involves a case study based on a fictional company, Healthy Home Care, Inc. You’ll assume the role of office manager, who is responsible for creating the literature for a Welcome Package. The promotional documents will be printed and placed in a folder to be mailed to the director of a senior center. For this project, you’ll complete four documents for the package:

  1. A cover letter discussing your partnership with a senior center
  2. A fact sheet highlighting the services and amenities you offer
  3. A flier promoting the next wellness clinic
  4. A pre-registration form

Instructions

Create the following documents. Your score will be based on the rubric found in the scoring guidelines.

Create and Edit a Cover Letter

The Welcome Package includes a letter to the director of a senior center.

  1. Start Word and create a new document.
  2. Change the style of the blank paragraph to No Spacing.
  3. Type the text shown below, pressing Enter to place one blank line where indicated, four blank lines in the closing, and four more blank lines before the word Enclosures, and beginning new paragraphs where indicated.

Your document should now look similar to that shown below.

  1. Replace the word Date with a time stamp displaying a date that updates automatically in the format “Month, Date, Year.”
  2. Edit the first paragraph to display the Healthy Home Care, Inc., services as a bulleted list with each item starting with an uppercase letter, similar to Figure below.
  1. Bold the three occurrences of Healthy Home Care, Inc., within the body of the letter.
  2. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care letter.”

Create a Fact Sheet

The Fact Sheet needs to display the Healthy Home Care, Inc., services in large print.

  1. Start Word and create a new document.
  2. Change the style of the blank paragraph to No Spacing.
  3. Type the text shown below, pressing Enter to start new paragraphs where shown.

Your document should now look similar to that shown below.

  1. Change the margins to 2 inches on the left and right and 1 inch on top and bottom.
  2. Replace the first two lines of text with appropriately formatted WordArt that has a Wrap Text format of Square and is centered above the rest of the text, similar to that shown below.
  1. Format the remaining text as Georgia 16 point.
  2. Bold the three questions only.
  3. Press Enter after the last question and then format the answer paragraphs as a bulleted list, using a character other than the • symbol.
  4. Format the bulleted list with 12-point spacing after each paragraph.
  5. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care fact sheet.”

Create a Flier

The flier will promote the Wellness Clinic at Palms Senior Center.

  1. Start Word and create a new document.
  2. Change the document orientation to Landscape.
  3. Type the text shown below.
  1. Change the margins to 0.3 inch on all sides.
  2. Your document should look similar to that shown below.
  1. Format the title in Comic Sans MS 72 point, bold, dark green.
  2. Select the next three lines of text and apply the Heading 1 style.
  3. Modify the Heading 1 style with the following formats:
    1. Arial 26 point bold
    2. Dark gray color
    3. Center alignment
  4. Format the last line of text with 2-inch right and left indents and then change the font to Arial 9 point.
  5. In the blank paragraph after Complimentary, insert an appropriate clip art image of fruit.
  6. Size the clip art so all the text is on one page, and then center the image.
  7. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care flier.”

Create a Pre-Registration Form

The pre-registration form will be used to compile names of prospective clients.

  1. Start Word and create a new document.
  2. Insert a 5 by 11 table.
  3. Merge the cells in the top row.
  4. Select only Header Row in Table Style Options and then select a table style with blue shading in the first row.
  5. Type the form title as shown below and format the first line of text as Arial 20 point, bold and the second line as Arial 16 point, regular.
  1. Type text and merge cells so your form looks similar to the figure below. After merging cells in the last row, change the row height to 4.5 inches. Change the row heights of the cells containing text to 0.3 inch.
  1. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care pre-registration form.”

Scoring Guidelines

Rubric

Skill/Grading CriteriaExemplary
(4)Proficient
(3)Fair
(2)Poor
(1)Apply a Word StyleAppropriate paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.Most paragraphs are in the| indicated Word style.Some paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.Few paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.Insert a time stampA time stamp set to update automatically is displayed in the format Month, Date, Year.A time stamp set to update automatically is displayed in any format.A time stamp not set to update is displayed in any format.A date has been typed.Edit Text and format as a bulleted listAll of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.Most of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.Some of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.An attempt has been made to format the indicated text in a list style.Apply the bold character formatAll of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.Most of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.Some of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.The wrong text has been formatted as bold.Change marginsAll margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.Most of the margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.Some of the margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.The margins have been changed to the wrong measurements.Create WordArt and change wrapAppropriate WordArt has been created, sized, formatted, and given the appropriate wrap.Appropriate WordArt has been created, sized, and formatted.Appropriate WordArt has been created and sized.WordArt has been created but is neither appropriate nor formatted.Format text in a different fontAll of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.Most of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.Some of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.None of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct combination of typeface, size, and style where indicated.Change the bullet style of a listAll of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.Most of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.Some the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.An attempt has been made to format the indicated text in a list style.Change paragraph spacingAll of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.Most of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.Some of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.An attempt has been made to add spacing between paragraphs without changing the paragraph style.Change page orientationThe document orientation is Landscape.The document orientation is Landscape.The document orientation is Landscape.The document orientation is Landscape.Create indentsThe indicated paragraph has right and left indents of the appropriate measurements.The indicated paragraph has either a right or left indent of the appropriate measurement.The indicated paragraph has right and left indents, but of the wrong measurements.Spaces, tabs, or some other character was used in an attempt to change indents.Apply color to textAll of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.Most of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.Some of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.The wrong text has been formatted in a color.Modify a built-in styleAll of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.Most of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.Some of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.Few of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.Insert clip artAn appropriate clip art image has been inserted, sized, and formatted.An appropriate clip art image has been inserted and sized.An appropriate clip art image has been inserted.A clip art image has been inserted but is neither related to the content nor has it been formatted.Insert a tableA table of the specified size has been inserted.A table of the wrong size has been inserted.Tabs have been used to create rows and columns of data.Text has been typed with no attempt to organize it.Merge table cellsAll of the indicated table cells have been merged.Most of the indicated table cells have been merged.Some of the indicated table cells have been merged.Few of the indicated table cells have been merged.Apply a table styleA Word table style with the appropriate options has been applied.A Word table style with the appropriate options has been applied without top row shading.A Word table style with the wrong options has been applied.An attempt has been made to format the table by applying separate cell formats.Format table row heightAll of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.Most of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.Some of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.The indicated rows have been changed to the wrong height.

Submission Checklist

Before submitting your project, make sure you’ve correctly completed the following:

  • Create, save, and name a file
  • Type text
  • Edit text
  • Change page orientation
  • Character formats, including typeface, point size, bold, and color
  • Apply Word styles
  • Modify a Word style
  • Insert an automatically updating time stamp
  • Paragraph formats, including alignment, spacing, and indents
  • Create WordArt
  • Insert clip art
  • Change the wrap and size of an image
  • Use bulleted lists, including changing the default bullet
  • Insert a table
  • Change table formats using Table Styles
  • Change cell formats using Text and Paragraph Styles
  • Change table structure, including merging cells and row heights
  • Type data into a table

Be sure to keep a backup copy of any files you submit to the school!

 
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