Applied Business Project 2 – Data VisualizationYou MUST use th.docx

Applied Business Project 2 – Data Visualization
You MUST use this template for your report
and submit your ABP-2 report to D2L as a PDF file.
Name: Lastname, Firstname (UA Email address)
Project: ABP-2 – Data Visualization
Task 1: ETL of Transactional Data
1.1.
Extract of Extracted Data (from Yahoo! Finance)
<insert the Header plus
only the first 10 rows of your downloaded CSV
datafile here>
Important Note: Be sure your solution for Task 1.1 copies the
data directly from your text editor (as lines of “text” and not as
an image) so that your solution matches the unformatted data in
the CSV file shown in the assignment guidelines. You must
use a text editor for this task. You
cannot open your CSV file using Word, Pages, Excel,
Sheets or other similar applications.
1.2.
Stock Price Summary Table (Based on Full Data Set)
<insert your solution for Task 1.2 table here>
1.3.
Stock Price Summary Table Formulas
1.3.1.
Excel Formula for the Daily Open Low
<insert your Excel formula for Task 1.3.1 here>
1.3.2.
Excel Formula for the Daily Open High

<insert your Excel formula
for Task 1.3.2 here>
1.3.3.
Excel Formula for the Daily Open Range
<insert your Excel formula
for Task 1.3.3 here>
1.4.
Data Visualizations (Stock Trading Prices)
<insert your visualization solution for Task 1.4 graph>
1.5 Data Visualizations (Trading Volume)
<insert your solution for Task 1.5 graph>
1.6 Assessment of how Visualizations can inform an investor
(150 words)
<insert your written Assessment for Task 1.6 here> Task 2:
Comparative Market and Financial Strength
2.
2.1. Tabular Data Representation
<insert your solution for Task 2.1>
2.2. Treemap Charts of financial data – your company
<insert your treemap chart for Task 2.2> - your company
2.3. Treemap Charts of financial data – a competitor
<insert your treemap chart for Task 2.3> - a competitor
2.4. Treemap Charts of financial data – a company ourside your
industry
<insert your treemap chart for Task 2.4> - an unrelated
company
2.5 Value of a Treemap Chart in Investment Analysis (150

words)
<insert your solution for Task 2.5 here>Task 3: Profiling
Corporate Sustainability
3.
3.1.
Tabular Data for Sustainability Visualization
<insert your solution for Task 3.1 here>
3.2.
Sustainability Visualization (Radar Chart)
<insert your solution for Task 3.2>
3.3.
Sustainability Assessment (150 words)
<insert your solution for Task 3.3> Task 4: Assessing your
stock the Warren Buffet Way
4.
4.1. Selection of Criteria and Visualization Chart Type4.1.1.
Criterion identifier and description
<insert your solution for Task 4.1.1>
4.1.2.
Selected chart type
<insert your solution for Task 4.1.2>
4.2. Visualization Assessment (150 words)
<insert your solution for Task 4.2 here>
4.3. Buffet Assessment Data Visualization
<insert your visualization for Task 4.3 here>
MIS 111 Fall 2022 Version 1.0 Page 3 of 3
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PHY 241 Research Project
You will create an 8-10 minute video presentation on a topic in
physics. The video presentation can be a
detailed PowerPoint presentation or any other form of
presentation to convey the research project.
Topic
The topic of the project must be approved by the professor by
the date specified. This project
must include topics from at least three different modules that
have been covered in this course, so
choose your topic carefully. This topic can be a current “hot
topic” in physics, or a historical discovery
from the past.
Content
The video should include not only the general results of your
research, but also how your personal
learning in the course has allowed you to understand the topic
you are researching. You may use
PowerPoint slides or any other visual aids in your video, but it
must be a video you create and present.
As this is a research project, you will need to cite references.
This should be done throughout your
presentation, with a list of references at the end. Multiple
references should be used.
Deliverables
The video can be made in Studio, Canvas, or the program of
your choosing. The video must have good
quality so that your voice and presentation can be seen and

understood. Your video will be submitted in
a discussion board in Canvas labeled “Physics Research
Project”. You may follow the directions
on recording and sharing a video in Canvas in your Canvas
course site.
You will also be required to watch a minimum of 3 other
student’s videos and comment meaningfully on
their videos. “Great job!” and “Wow I didn’t know that!” do not
count as meaningful comments. Write
comments about what you learned from the video, how it helped
you understand some concept, how it
might play a role in your life experiences, or other comments
that show a meaningful engagement with
the video presentation.
List of Requirements for Physics Research Project
• Project will be on a physics topic as approved by instructor.
This can be something in current
physics research or a historical discovery in the past.
• Project will be recorded as a video and submitted into
Discussion Board “Physics Research
Project”
• Video length will be at minimum of 8 minutes to a maximum
of 10 minutes
• Video will specifically include how this topic uses concepts
from at least three modules studied.
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• Video will include how student’s personal learning in the
course has allowed them to
understand the topic they are researching.
• Video will be organized in a logical sequence/fashion and
flow well
• Video will include references at the end
• Student will watch and respond to 3 fellow students video
presentations and respond in the
discussion group with a meaningful comment to each.
Your Checklist
Please refer to the checklist to review your video presentation
and the postings in the discussion forum
to make sure you have completed the research project.
• Physics Topic
• 3 separate modules
• Personal learning experience
• 8 to 10 minutes in length
• Organized
• Physics content
• References
• Response to other videos

Grading Rubric
3
Criteria Excellent Proficient Satisfactory Approaching
Unsatisfactory
Overall look and
uniqueness relative
to other presenters
(15 points)
Makes excellent use
of font, color,
graphics, effects,
pictures, live action
shots etc. to
enhance the
presentation.
Presentation went
well beyond others.
Makes good use of
font, color, graphics,
effects, pictures, live
action shots etc. to
enhance the
presentation.
Presentation was
slightly better than

others.
Makes use of font,
color, graphics, effects,
shots etc. but
occasionally these
detract from the
presentation content.
Presentation was
similar or slightly below
others.
Use of font, color,
graphics, effects,
shots etc. but these
often distract from
the presentation
content.
Presentation was
below others.
No use of font color,
graphics, effects,
shots etc.
Requirements
(15 points)
All requirements are
met.

Most requirements
are met. Video is at
least 8 - 10 minutes in
length. 1-2 other
requirements
Some requirements are
met. Video is at least 8
- 10 minutes in length.
Few requirements
are met. Video is
not 8 - 10 minutes
in length.
0-1 requirements
met.
Physics Content
(15 points)
Covers topic in-
depth with details
and examples.
Subject knowledge
is excellent.
Includes essential
knowledge about the
topic. Subject
knowledge appears to
be good.
Includes essential

information about the
topic but there are 1-2
factual errors.
Content is minimal
OR there are several
factual errors.
No physics content
OR all facts have
factual errors
Organization
(15 points)
Content is well
organized.
Content is fairly well
organized
Content is somewhat
well organized
Content is not well
organized.
Content is not
organized.
References
(10 points)

References are all
there and correct.
Some missing
references.
No references.
4
Criteria Excellent Proficient Satisfactory Approaching
Unsatisfactory
Peer Review
(30 points)
Responded
meaningfully to 3 or
more video
presentations
Responded to 3 or
more video
presentations. Only 1
or 2 were meaningful.
Responded to less than
1-2 video presentations
meaningfully.

Responded to less
than 1-2 video
presentations, none
of which are
meaningful.
Did not respond to
any video
presentations.
Total: 100 points
TopicContentDeliverablesList of Requirements for Physics
Research ProjectYour ChecklistGrading Rubric
MIS 111 – Fall 22 – Applied Business Project 1 Grading Rubric
September 17th, 2022
Applied Business Project Grading Guidelines
Assignment: To perform a technical analysis of a publicly
traded company. The deliverables included a basic
history of the company, information about recent stock trading,
and an analysis of two stock investment strategies.
Applied Business Project Grading Guidelines
(no errors) in the error code
column.

(“NE” or one or more error codes) in
the error code column.
1. Enter the individual numeric codes that are appropriate.
2. If a Question was left unanswered, just enter the code for that
Question (e.g.: 20)
3. Be sure to enter applicable codes individually, do not use
hyphens (ie: if tasks 21, 22, and 23 were all
left undone, put it down as 21, 22, 23 AND NOT as 21-23)
4. Do not use any codes which are not listed
5. If you find multiple files from a student, grade the last one
submitted
6. If ANY part of the submission can be graded, please do so,
entering appropriate error codes for all
missing materials. If NOTHING can be graded then use error
code 91. If you use error code 91 there
should be no other error codes because nothing can be graded
by definition.
7. If the file is a pages file and you have a wind0ows computer
and cannot open, please use this link to
convert it so it can be opened (do NOT use error code 91):
https://cloudconvert.com/pages-to-doc

8. If you have concerns about a paper/papers that you feel
should be escalated, please email your
distributing TA with all the details and the papers attached.
9. Error codes 98&99 will be done automatically, you do not
need to enter it.
General Report Guidelines / Formatting Requirements (once per
paper)
CODE Explanation Points
NE No Errors NA
90 No Report submitted to the OT Submission Folder 100
91 File Submitted cannot be graded. This includes documents
that do not contain answers
(such as a blank template, or the instructions) and files cannot
be opened. GRADERS:
PLEASE STATE THE EXACT CAUSE IN THE NOTES TO
FACULTY! Note, if any
part of the paper can be graded (for example a student
accidently uploaded their Excel
working file so the tables are gradable), please do so, and just
deduct for all missing
materials.
100

92 Student used the Wrong Company 40
93 E-Tegrity Statement Missing or Did Not use Template for
Submission 20
98 Paper submitted for Partial Credit to the Partial Credit
submission folder 20
99 Automatically Graded – Not a pdf file 10
https://cloudconvert.com/pages-to-doc
Section 1
CODE Task Explanation Points
10 All
Tasks
Did Not Complete Any Part of This Question
(PLEASE DO NOT enter any of the specific error codes for
parts of this task if
you entered this error Code because the entire Question was

unanswered)
20
11 Task 1 Poorly written or formatted, did not have answers
below question headings, used text
speech (u, lol, k, etc.), did not use periods and sentences where
appropriate,
essentially very poorly and unprofessionally done.
3
1.1
12 1.1 Two or more items missing in the governance table, or
two or more excess items in the
governance table not assigned in the assignment (proper items
below)
mmary”)
-facing website
(“Profile”)
of the
company and their title (“Profile”)

fiscal-year end
(“Financials” / “Annual Balance Sheet”)
-time employees (“Profile”)
ification (“Profile”)
4
1.2
13 1.2 Two or more items missing from Financial Profile, or
two or more excess items
in the Financial Profile table not assigned in the assignment
(proper items below)
r your
“financial profile” For
that specific trading day, show the following:

Market Capitalization on the date selected (“Market
Cap”)
ers]
numeric value
“xx.xx”)
Sell scale)
6
1.3
14 1.3 Discussion did not provide a reasonable explanation for
why they thought there was a
Buy/Sell/Hold analyst recommendation (this needs to be
focused on issues).
6
15 1.3 Length of discussion under 100 words (about 6+ lines,
OK if over) 4

Section 2
20 All
Tasks
parts of this task if
you entered this error Code because the entire Question was
unanswered)
25
appropriate,
essentially very poorly and unprofessionally done.
3
2.1 NOTE: All date for 2.1 may be put in one table or may be
put in multiple tables,
as long as the information is present, there is no error

22 2.1 One or more items “Balance Sheet” items missing from
table (NA is OK), or one or
more excess items not assigned in the assignment (proper items
below)
From Balance Sheet (may be in Millions or Thousands or just $)
o Total Assets
o Current Assets
o Total Non-current Assets
o Total Liabilities
o Current Liabilities
o Total Non-current Liabilities
4
23 2.1 One or more items “Income Statement” items missing
from table, or one or more excess
items, note some items may have NA, that is OK

rofit
4
24 2.1 One or more items “Cash Flow” items missing from table
(NA is OK)
From Cash Flow Statement, or one or more excess items
ow
4
25 2.1 One or more items “Historical Stock Price data” items
missing from table, or one or
more excess items
From historical stock data

(shares of stock traded)
3
2.2
26 2.2 Discussion does not clearly describe how an investor
would be able to independently
verify the press releases financial information could be verified
based on the
information that can be found in the financial reports, or the
article was more than 12
months old, or write-up not based on a press release
4
27 2.2 Bibliographic citation not included for the article
(included URL and date referenced,
if the article was from an online source, see guideline examples)
2
28 2.2 Length of Investor Analysis discussion under 100 words
(about 6+ lines, OK if
over)
4

Section 3
30 All
Tasks
parts of this task if you
entered this error Code because the entire Question was
unanswered)
25
31 Task
3
Poorly written or formatted, did not have answers below
question headings, used text
appropriate, essentially
very poorly and unprofessionally done.
3

3.1 Stock Price Table
32 3.1 Table Title Line missing and / or not merged into one
overall header cell. 3
33 3.1 Closing dates not shown 3
34 3.1 Two (2) companies and One (1) index (students assigned
company and 1 competitor and
DOW-30 or NASDAQ) are not all shown
3
35 3.1 The closing stock prices not formatted as numbers (not
currency) with two decimal places
and be formatting using 1000’s (thousand’s) comma separators.
1
36 3.1 Table does not have both a caption and a citation 2
3.2 Stock Price Graph index
37 3.2 Meaningful title not included for chart 2
38 3.2 Meaningful label not included for X-Axis (Dates) or both
Y-Axes (price) AND/OR No
Secondary Y axis
2
39 3.2 Graph is not a line graph (see guideline example) 3
40 3.2 Actual closing dates were not used for the x-axis (i.e.,
discrete dates, not a Continuous

range typically showing all dates on the 1st of the Month)
3
41 3.2 Legend identifying each company’s stock tracking line in
graph not provided 2
42 3.2 Graph is missing a caption 1
Section 3.2 Example (for Section 3.1 example review the
instructions) Note, this is the example graph in the
assignment, we do not care if the colors match, but the graph
does need to be professional, have 2 competitors,
have x and y axis labels, have a title, and have the actual last
trading days of the month in the X Axis
Figure 1 – Industry Stock Price Analysis Chart
(Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/ Referenced 8/25/2020)
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/holders?p=WMT
Section 4

50 All
Tasks
parts of this task if you
entered this error Code because the entire Question was
unanswered)
30
appropriate, essentially
very poorly and unprofessionally done.
3
4.1 Fundamental numbers needed for Financial Ratios
52 4.1 Missing two or more of the following (some may be a 0,
a dash (–) means 0 so is OK), or
one or more excess items
o Market Capitalization

o Accounts Receivable (A/R): Gross Accounts Receivable
o Cash: Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-term Investments
o Current Assets: Current Assets
o Current Liabilities: Current Liabilities
o Total Equity: Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
6
53 4.1 No Source(s) cited for table 3
54 4.2 Acid Test Ratio Missing: The acid test is focused on
whether a company’s short-term
assets will cover its short-term liabilities. Students just need to
include the final number,
not the calculations
2
55 4.2 How is the company doing under 100 words (about 6+
lines, OK if over) 5
56 4.3 Working Capital Ratio Missing: The working capital is a
measure of a company’s
liquidity and efficiency
2
57 4.3 Write 125-175 words about the state of the company with

respect to this ratio.
Under 100 words (about 6+ lines, OK if over)
5
58 4.4 P/B Ratio (OK if called Market to Book Ratio) Missing:
The price to book ratio is
widely used in financial analysis. If it is in the thousands verify
the student didn’t have
market Cap in Billions and Book Value in Missions (wrong if
they did that) P/B Ratio =
Market Capitalization / Book Value of Equity.
2
59 4.4 Write a 125-175 word analysis of the companies P/B
ratio and whether it appears low
enough to be favorable in your view. Specifically discuss
whether the company also has
intangible assets or goodwill that may be artificially depressing
the P/B ratio and making
the company appear to be a better value than it actually is.
Under 100 words or no citation (about 6+ lines, OK if over)
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M I S 1 1 1 - C o m p u t e r s a n d t h e I n t e r n e t w o r
k e d S o c i e t y
Applied Business Project 2 Guidelines
Eller College of Management
This document contains instructions on completing ABP-2 for
MIS 111
Version 1.0 (Initial Release): 26 September 2022
Fall 2022
On-time Deadline for Completing the Submission of ABP-2
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by 11:59pm
The D2L submission process (i.e., the upload of your report
must
finish and a confirmation message displayed by D2L) must be
completed by 11:59pm local Tucson time (MST or UTC/GMT-7)
by
the assignment due date. This is a hard deadline and no
extensions
are offered to the on-time assignment due date, so be sure to

plan
your work and submission attempts accordingly.
APPLIED BUSINESS PROJECT 2 GUIDELINES 2
MIS 111 – Fall 2022 Version 1.0 Page 2
Table of Contents
Assignment Overview
...............................................................................................
............................ 4
Introduction to Data Visualization
...............................................................................................
.... 4
Finding Your Required Assigned Company
.................................................................................. 5
IMPORTANT NOTE on using your assigned company
.................................................... 5
No Cost Access to Data Sources for Analysis
................................................................................ 5
Task 1: ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) of Transactional Data
............................................ 6
Task 1 Self-Assessment Quality Review
............................................................................... 6
Extracting Data for Analysis from Yahoo! Finance

............................................................... 7
Task 1.1: Document your downloaded data
.......................................................................... 8
Task 1.1
...............................................................................................
.............................................. 8
IMPORTANT NOTE: Use of the entire Task 1 dataset
.................................................... 8
Task 1.2: Data Cleansing, Transformation and Analysis
.................................................... 8
ETL Load Process
...............................................................................................
........................... 8
ETL Transform Process
...............................................................................................
................ 9
Creating a Stock Price Summary table for Task 1.2
......................................................... 9
Task 1.3 Document the formulas used in the Stock Price
Summary ........................... 9
Task 1.4: Data Visualization – Stock Trading Prices
......................................................... 10
Calculating the Task 1.4 data range and upper and lower bounds
......................... 10
Task 1.5: Data Visualization – Stock Trading Volume

..................................................... 11
Task 1.6: Data Visualization – Investment Analysis
......................................................... 12
Task 2: Comparative Market and Financial Strength
........................................................... 12
............................................................................ 12
Task 2.1: Tabular Data Representation
................................................................................. 13
Tasks 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4: Treemap Charts Visualizations
................................................... 13
Task 2.5: Value of a Treemap Chart in Investment Analysis
......................................... 14
Task 3: Corporate Sustainability Profile
.................................................................................... 14
............................................................................ 14
Task 3.1: Tabular Data for Sustainability Visualization
.................................................. 15
Task 3.2: Radar Chart Visualization for Sustainability
.................................................... 16
Task 3.3: Sustainability Assessment
....................................................................................... 16
Task 4: Assessing your stock the Warren Buffet Way

.......................................................... 17
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Outcome of Investment Analysis
.............................................. 17
Task 4.1: Selection of Criteria and Visualization
............................................................... 18
Task 4.2: Visualization Assessment
........................................................................................ 18
Task 4.3: Buffet Assessment Data Visualization
............................................................... 18
Options Available for Task 4 Buffet Investment Analysis
Criteria ............................... 19
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 1: Is the company conservatively
financed? ............... 19
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 2: Are earnings strong and show an
upward trend? 19

Task 4 Analysis Criterion 3: Has the company been buying
back its shares? ... 19
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 4: Is the company’s return on equity
above average?
...............................................................................................
............................................................ 19
General Applied Business Project Report Guidelines
............................................................ 20
Required Business Report Formatting Elements
............................................................... 20
• Use the ABP-2 Report Template
................................................................................... 20
• Include with the E-tegrity Statement
......................................................................... 20
• Be submitted as a PDF-formatted
document........................................................... 20
Citing Sources Required for Discussion Questions, Tables and
Figures .................... 20
Required Table and Figure Formatting Checklist
................................................................... 21
Major Business Report Penalties
...............................................................................................
.... 22
Not using the ABP-2 report template

...................................................................................... 22
Not submitting your report in PDF file format
.................................................................... 22
Not using your assigned company
............................................................................................
22
Not including the E-Tegrity statement
................................................................................... 22
Submitting an ungradable document
...................................................................................... 22
On-time Deadline for Completing Submission of ABP-2
...................................................... 23
.......................................................................... 23
Subject to Change Statement
...............................................................................................
............ 23
Changes and Errata List
...............................................................................................
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MIS 111 Applied Business Project 2
Assignment Overview
Your task for ABP-2 is to create a structured financial analysis
report for your
assigned company (as shown in your D2L grade book item
“ABP Ticker”) from a data
visualization perspective. Your business project report will
include:
• Documentation on the process you used to extract, transform
and load (ETL)
information from a data repository (Yahoo! Finance) on your
assigned stock;
• Charts visualizing key aspects of your stock’s trading data;
• A treemap chart visualizing and comparing financial metrics;
• A radar chart assessing the effectiveness of corporate
sustainability; and,

• An analysis and visualization of your stock using one selected
Buffet criteria.
Introduction to Data Visualization
Not long ago, the ability to create smart data visualizations, or
dataviz, was a nice-to-have
skill. For the most part, it benefited design- and data-minded
managers who made a
deliberate decision to invest in acquiring it. That has changed.
Now visual communication
is a must-have skill for all managers, because more and more
often, it’s the only way to
make sense of the work they do.
Data is the primary force behind this shift. Decision making
increasingly relies on data,
which comes at us with such overwhelming velocity, and in
such volume, that we can’t
comprehend it without some layer of abstraction, such as a
visual one. A typical example:
At Boeing the managers of the Osprey program needed to
improve the efficiency of the
aircraft’s takeoffs and landings. But each time the Osprey gets
off the ground or touches
back down, its sensors create a terabyte of data. Ten takeoffs
and landings produce as

much data as is held in the Library of Congress. Without
visualization, detecting the
inefficiencies hidden in the patterns and anomalies of that data
would be an impossible
slog.
But even information that is not statistical demands visual
expression. Complex systems—
business process workflows, for example, or the way customers
move through a store—are
hard to understand, much less fix, if you cannot first see them.
Thanks to the internet and a growing number of affordable
tools, translating information
into visuals is now easy (and cheap) for everyone, regardless of
data or design skills. This
is largely a positive development. One drawback, though, is that
it reinforces the impulse
to “click and viz” without first thinking about your purpose and
goals. Convenient is a
tempting replacement for good, but it will lead to charts that are
merely adequate or, worse,
ineffective. Automatically converting spreadsheet cells into a
chart only visualizes pieces
of a spreadsheet; it doesn’t capture an idea.

As the presentation expert Nancy Duarte puts it, “Don’t project
the idea that you’re
showing a chart. Project the idea that you’re showing a
reflection of human activity, of
things people did to make a line go up and down. It’s not ‘Here
are our Q3 financial results,’
it’s ‘Here’s where we missed our targets.’”
Managers who want to get better at making charts often start by
learning rules. When
should I use a bar chart? How many colors are too many? Where
should the key go? Do I
have to start my y-axis at zero? Visual grammar is important
and useful—but knowing it
doesn’t guarantee that you’ll make good charts. To start with
chart-making rules is to
forgo strategy for execution; it’s to pack for a trip without
knowing where you’re going.
Your visual communication will prove far more successful if

you begin by acknowledging
that it is not a lone action but, rather, several activities, each of
which requires distinct
types of planning, resources, and skills.
Scott Berinato “Visualizations That Really Work”
Harvard Business Review, June 2016
Finding Your Required Assigned Company
The ticker symbol and name of your assigned company can be
found on D2L in your
grade book in the “ABP Ticker” item.
No Cost Access to Data Sources for Analysis
All information required for this assignment is available at no
cost on the
standard access Yahoo! Finance website at:
https://finance.yahoo.com/ You
are not required to purchase Yahoo! Finance Premium for this
assignment. If you
encounter data that is not accessible or blocked by a paywall,
please contact an
instructor for assistance with accessing the required
information.

IMPORTANT NOTE on using your assigned company: You
must use your
assigned company, that is shown in the “ABP Company Ticker”
item in your
MIS 111 grade book on D2L
https://finance.yahoo.com/
While you may use other sources to obtain information, please
contact an instructor
if you are unsure whether an item is the required financial
measure.
Task 1: ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) of Transactional Data
Task 1 Self-Assessment Quality Review [30 points]
Point Goal 0-7 points 8-15 points 16-22 points 23-30 points
Assessment
(Based on the
specific
criteria
defined for
each subtask)

Did not attempt
or missing
content in most
or all tables
and/or written
assessment or
citations
Missing major
content in two or
more tables
and/or written
assessment and
citations
Missing some
content in one
table or written
assessment and
citations
Fully included
most or all
content in
tables, written
assessment and

citations
For this task, you will perform many of the standard functions
required to prepare
data for data analysis in a business setting. When dealing with
large volumes of data
it is not possible to type the data in (as you may have done for
ABP-1). This task takes
you through many of the steps normally followed by
information systems
professionals when preparing data for analysis.
For this task, you will extract (download) data from Yahoo!
Finance as an Excel “CSV”
data file, transform (refine and select) your data, and then load
(import) the data
into Excel for visualization. This Extract-Transform-Load
process is commonly
referred to by information systems professionals using the
acronym “ETL”.
What is an Excel CSV (Comma-Separated Value) file?
A CSV file is a comma-separated values file commonly used by
spreadsheet programs
such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. It contains plain
text data sets separated
by commas, with each new line in the CSV file representing a
new database row and
each database row consisting of one or more fields separated by
a comma.
The CSV data exchange format is supported by many personal,
business, and scientific
programs. The format is especially useful in transferring tabular

data between
programs and databases because of its wide support. Since CSV
files are saved as
plain text you can open them with a plain text editor, such as
Microsoft Notepad
(Windows) and Apple TextEdit (MacOS).
(From: https://fileinfo.com/extension/csv)
https://fileinfo.com/extension/csv
Extracting Data for Analysis from Yahoo! Finance
For Task 1.1, you will use Yahoo! Finance to extract the daily
trading data for the
most recent prior 12 months (52 weeks prior) starting with the
day prior to the
day you are collecting your data for your analysis. For
example, if you download
your data from Yahoo! Finance on September 26, 2022, your
date range must include
all trading days from September 27, 2021 to September 26,
2022, which represents
the approximately 250 trading days during most calendar years.
To download the data, you will select the “Historical Data” tab
on Yahoo! Finance, and

“Apply” bu
shown below the
“Apply” button, as shown below:
When your download is ready, your file saved in your
“Downloads” folder, or you may
be asked to confirm saving your file, as shown below:
Once you have downloaded your “CSV” data file, locate the file
on your computer and
open the file using a text editor, such as Notepad (on Windows)
or TextEdit (OSX).
Do NOT use Excel or double-click on the filename to open the
CSV file for task
1.1 (or other spreadsheet application), as this will not display
the file correctly,
as shown in Figure 1.1 below. For this step, right click (or long
click) and select the
program you want to select “open with” and then select your
text editor application.

Task 1.1: Document your downloaded data
Task 1.1: Open the CSV file using a text editor (not a
spreadsheet application such as
Excel) and copy the metadata (field labels on the first line) and
only the first 10 rows
(so 11 rows total, 1 header row and 10 data rows) of your
stock’s CVS-formatted text
data file into your report template.
The information MUST appear EXACTLY as shown below, with
the first line of
metadata showing the field names of the columns (e.g., “Date,
Open, High…”) and the
next 10 lines being comma-separated values (CSV) for only the
first 10 days of the
data range you specified in Yahoo! Finance for Task 1.1. Do
NOT include all (over
250) data records from the CSV file.
Figure 1.1 – Selected Data from IBM Trading Data
(Source:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/financials?p=IBM)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Use of the entire Task 1 dataset For all
other Task 1 subtasks
(1.2-1.5), you must import and use the entire 52-week range
(one year’s worth) of

data. In other words, your analysis should be based on 250+
values representing all
of the trading days that occurred during the 52-week range, and
not just the sample
first 10 items of the CSV file shown in Task 1.1
Task 1.2: Data Cleansing, Transformation and Analysis
To begin Task 1.2, clean and transform your data by:
ETL Load Process: This is importing the data into Excel. To
import the data using
the “From Text” option under “Get External Data” (in the Data
ribbon).
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/financials?p=IBM
ETL Transform Process: Date Cleansing and Refining removes
extraneous data. In
this case, we will keep the “Adjusted Close” values and delete
the “Close” values to
allow us to compare different stocks more accurately. Once you
have the data
imported into Excel, use Excel to delete the “Close” column
from the data, leaving only
the Adjusted Close “Adj Close” column for your analysis.

Creating a Stock Price Summary table for Task 1.2
After you have completed your data cleansing and
transformation, create a summary
table of the 52-week range of your trading data showing the
minimum, maximum,
and range (high-low) of all the data (250+ values) each of the
columns in your dataset
(e.g., open, high, low, adjusted close, and volume).
To calculate the low and high values, you must use Excel’s
“MIN()” and “MAX()”
functions and then calculate each column’s the range (the
difference between
high and low) using an appropriate Excel formula.
The table for Task 1.2 should follow the “Required Table and
Figure Formatting
Checklist” shown in the “General Applied Business Project
Report Guidelines” section.
Stock Price Summary- WMT (Walmart, Inc.)
(February 17, 2019 - February 17, 2020)
52-Week
Category
Daily
Open
Daily
High
Daily

Low
Daily
Adjusted Close
Daily
Volume
Low 97.12 97.40 95.00 95.52 2,227,400
High 124.60 125.38 120.70 121.28 22,504,200
Range 27.48 27.98 25.70 25.76 20,276,800
Table 1.2– Stock Price Summary Data Table
(Source:
Referenced 2/16/2020)
Task 1.3 Document the formulas used in the Stock Price
Summary
For Task 1.3, you will show the Excel formulas or functions you
used to calculate the
Low (Task 1.3.1), High (Task 1.3.2), and Range values (Task
1.3.3), respectively, only
for the values in the “Daily Open” column shown in red below.
Task 1.3 Task 1.4 Axis Bounds

Task 1.4: Data Visualization – Stock Trading Prices
As the first step in your analysis, you will visualize your
stock’s trading data using a
horizontal line graph to display the stock price at the market
opening, high, low
and market close for Task 1.4.
Figure 1.4 – Walmart Intraday Stock Prices
(Source:
The figure for Task 1.4 should follow the “Required Table and
Figure Formatting
For Task 1.4, you must format the bounds of the trading price
chart (vertical) axis
must be set to +/- 20% more than the range of the data. As
calculated in Task 1.2,
you will use difference between the “Low” for the Daily Low
and the “High” for the
Daily High’s value, as highlighted in blue in the Task 1.3
sample table.
Calculating the Task 1.4 data range and upper and lower bounds
To calculate

your formatting bounds, subtract the lowest minimum value
from the highest
maximum value. Using the example shown with Task 1.3, the
“Low” for the “Daily
Low” is 95.00 and the “High” for the “Daily High” your high is
125.38, the range would
be 30.38 (125.38-95.00), so 20% of this value would be 6
(rounded to the closest
whole value). Using the 20% range of 6, you would subtract 6
from the “Daily Low”
low (95.00-6) and adding 6 to the “Daily High” high
(125.38+6). This would result in
the bounds for your graph of 89 to 131.38.
Note that if your stock has wide trading range, you should set
the lower bounds to zero,
as opposed to a negative number for the lower bound of your
graph.
As shown below, to format an axis with an alternate bounds (or
limits for your vertical
axis) after creating your line graph, click on the axis values and
right-click to open
“Format Axis”. In the Format Axis options window, update the
“Minimum” and
“Maximum” Axis Options bounds, as shown below.

Task 1.5: Data Visualization – Stock Trading Volume
For Task 1.5, you will plot the Daily Volume of traded shares
for the range of trading
day as a vertical bar graph to display. You are not required to
scale the vertical range
(bounds) axis of this visualization.
Figure 1.5 – Walmart Traded Share Volume
(Source:
Figure Formatting

Task 1.6: Data Visualization – Investment Analysis
For Task 1.6, write a 150-word original (i.e., in your own
words) assessment
(range: 125 – 175 words) of how an investment analyst could
benefit from creating
visualizations of trading data, such as Tasks 1.4 and 1.5 to
predict future behavior of
a stock. This analysis should consider how a stock trader’s
understanding of the
variations in the trading range, and open/close pricing
visualization, and trading
volume could inform their expectations for a stock’s future
performance.
Your analysis should NOT discuss specifics related to your
company’s stock
performance, as shown in the visualizations in Tasks 1.4 and
1.5. When developing
your solution to Task 1.6, be sure to justify your answer, and if
you used a source to
help you understand aspects of your solution, be sure also to
include a citation.
Task 2: Comparative Market and Financial Strength
Assessment
(Based on the
specific

criteria
defined for
each subtask)
Did not attempt
or missing
content in most
or all tables
and/or written
assessment or
citations
Missing major
content in one or
more tables
and/or written
assessment and
citations
Missing some
content in one
table or written
assessment and
citations
Fully included
most or all
content in

tables, written
assessment and
citations
Comparative market and financial strength are often a key
metrics stock traders use
to assess the value of a stock. For this task, you will create a
“Tree Map” visualization
your stock’s total assets, total liabilities, and total stockholder
equity for your
company, a competitor, and one company from an unrelated
industry of your choice.
You should use the data from each company’s the most recent
reported fiscal year
(the fiscal year closes are not required to be the same).
According to DataScience.com, the treemap was invented by
Ben Shneiderman. Dr.
Shneiderman created the treemap to visualize hierarchical data.
Martin Wattenberg
created a slight variation on this, referred to as a clustered
treemap, which is what most
people today commonly refer to as a treemap. A treemap chart
is a visual method for
displaying hierarchical data that uses nested rectangles to
represent the branches of a
tree diagram. Each rectangles has an area proportional to the
amount of data.
(See: https://www.dataplusscience.com)
https://www.dataplusscience.com/

Task 2.1: Tabular Data Representation
For Task 2.1, create a table showing the Total Assets, Total
Liabilities, and Total
Shareholder Equity (from the most recent fiscal year) for your
company (Task 2.2),
an industry competitor (Task 2.3), and any company outside
your company’s industry
(Task 2.4). Since all three companies are shown on the same
table, be sure that you
report the values using consistent units (e.g., “shown in
billions”), as shown below.
Figure 2.1 – Comparative Market and Financial Strength
Analysis (shown in billions)
The table for Task 2.1should follow the “Required Table and
Figure Formatting
Tasks 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4: Treemap Charts Visualizations
For Tasks 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4, using the financial data (assets,
liabilities and shareholder
equity) from Task 2.1, create three (3) treemaps: one treemap

for your company, one
treemap for an industry competitor, and one treemap for any
company outside your
company’s industry.
Figure 2.2 – Company Financial Profile (shown in billions)
The figures for Tasks 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 should follow the
“Required Table and Figure
Formatting Checklist” shown in the “General Applied Business
Project Report
Guidelines” section.
Company Assets (B) Liabilities (B) Equity (B)
WMT 219.295 144.799 74.496
TGT 41.29 29.993 11.297
IBM 153.186 132.345 20.841
Market and Financial Stregth

Task 2.5: Value of a Treemap Chart in Investment Analysis
words) analysis (range:
125 – 175 words) describing how using a treemap chart to
display a consolidated
view of the market and financial information of several
companies would better
inform an investor’s analysis evaluating an investment
opportunity.
Note that your analysis should NOT discuss specifics related to
your company’s stock
performance, as indicated by the visualizations in Tasks 2.2,
2.3, and 2.4, on the ways
in which a treemap would inform decisions about investment
opportunities generally.
Task 3: Corporate Sustainability Profile
Assessment
(Based on the
specific
criteria
defined for
each subtask)
Did not attempt
or missing

content in most
or all tables
and/or written
assessment or
citations
Missing major
content in one or
more tables
and/or written
assessment and
citations
Missing some
content in one
table or written
assessment and
citations
Fully included
most or all
content in
tables, written
assessment and
citations
Sustainability is another key factor for a number of investors,

particularly those who
want to support companies practicing sustainable stewardship.
For this task, you will create a “radar” chart showing
sustainability profiles for your
company, a competitor, and one company from an unrelated
industry of your choice,
and then prepare a short analysis of what its sustainability
profile might mean for its
stock. You may use the same competitor and company outside
your company’s
industry for this task as you did for the tasks in Section 2.
As described by Yahoo! Finance, Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk
Ratings assess the degree to
which a company’s enterprise business value is at risk driven by
environmental, social
and governance issues. The rating employs a two-dimensional
framework that
combines an assessment of a company’s exposure to industry-
specific material ESG
issues with an assessment of how well the company is managing
those issues. The final
ESG Risk Ratings scores are a measure of unmanaged risk on an
absolute scale of 0-100,
with a lower score signaling less unmanaged ESG Risk.
(See: Finance.Yahoo.com)

According to DataScience.com, radar charts are a great way to
compare members of a
dimension in a function of several metrics. For example, when
you want to buy a
smartphone, you can use a radar chart to compare several
devices across several
metrics like battery life, camera quality, and memory capacity.
(See: https://www.dataplusscience.com/ChartChatS1E1.html)
As described by HistoryofInformation.com, the radar diagram
was originally developed
in 1858 by nurse, statistician, and reformer Florence
Nightingale showed that epidemic
disease, which was responsible for more British deaths in the
course of the Crimean War
than battlefield wounds. The graphic, which Nightingale used as
a way to explain
complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become
known as Nightingale's
"Rose Diagram."
(See:
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3815)
Task 3.1: Tabular Data for Sustainability Visualization
For Task 3.1, you will create a table showing the Environment
Risk Score (ERS), Social
Risk Score (SRS), and Governance Risk Score (GRS) for your
assignment company, an
industry competitor, and any company outside your company’s
industry. While you
may use the same three companies used in Task 2, you may
have to select alternative

companies if the companies you selected do not have ESG Risk
Ratings.
Risk Factor WMT AMZN TSLA
Environment (ERS) 3.4 6.7 3
Social (SRS) 17.3 14.6 17.3
Governance (GRS) 6.5 9.7 10.2
Task 3.1 – Sustainavalytics ESG Rating Comparison
The table for Task 3.1 should follow the “Required Table and
Figure Formatting
Task 3.2: Radar Chart Visualization for Sustainability
For Task 3.2, create a single “radar” chart incorporating the
values for all three

companies Sustainanalytics Environmental, Social and
Governance (ESG) Ratings
comparison using the information from the table in Task 3.1.
Task 3.2 – Sustainanalytics ESG Ratings Comparison
Visualization
Figure Formatting
Task 3.3: Sustainability Assessment
Sustainanalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings measure a company’s
exposure to industry-specific
material ESG risks and how well a company is managing those
risks. This multi-
dimensional way of measuring ESG risk combines the concepts
of management and
exposure to arrive at an absolute assessment of ESG risk that
could impact a company’s
enterprise value. (See: https://www.sustainalytics.com/ )
125 – 175 words) describing how individual investors might use
information on
Sustainalytics’ ESG Ratings to inform their investment
decisions on either a
company’s commitment to sustainable business practices or how
well a company is
managing material ESG risks in its business operations. Be sure

to justify your answer,
use an online source to inform your discussion and include a
citation, including the
date you referenced the online sources.
https://www.sustainalytics.com/
Task 4: Assessing your stock the Warren Buffet Way
Assessment
(Based on the
specific
criteria
defined for
each subtask)
Did not attempt
or missing
content in most

or all tables
and/or written
assessment or
citations
Missing major
content in one or
more tables
and/or written
assessment and
citations
Missing some
content in one
table or written
assessment and
citations
Fully included
most or all
content in
tables, written
assessment and
citations
As Charles Rotblut, a contributing editor for Forbes.Com,
observes, Warren Buffett

believes that a successful stock investment is a result first and
foremost of the underlying
business. Its value to the owner comes from the company’s
ability to generate earnings
at an increasing rate each year. Buffett seeks first to identify an
excellent business and
then to acquire the firm if the price is right.
Buffett is considered a value investor, and seeks out consumer
monopolies, selling
products where there is no effective competitor, due to either a
patent or brand name
or similar intangible that makes the product or service unique.
Moreover, Buffet
typically passes up the stocks of commodity-based firms even if
they can be purchased
at a price below the intrinsic value of the firm.
(See: Investing The Warren Buffett Way on
https://www.forbes.com)
For task 4, you will evaluate your assigned company’s
investment potential with
respect to concepts related to Warren Buffett’s investment
strategies using one
of the four “Buffet Investment Criteria” shown below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Outcome of Investment Analysis For
Task 4, you should
assess your company in the context of one of the criterion. You
are not expected to
justify that your company meets the criterion or would be a
good investment choice.
However, your analysis must provide a specific basis for why
you believe that your

company either meets or fails to meet the requirements for your
selected criteria.
For this task, consider that you are an investment analyst for
Warren Buffet and he
has asked you to evaluate your company, given one of his
criteria. To do this task, you
will need to select one of the criteria, identify financial data
that would be appropriate
to assess that criteria, and then visualize the financial data you
select.
https://www.forbes.com/
Your solution for this task will be assessed on (1) your
selection of appropriate data
to describe the criterion, (2) your selection of a visualization
that presents the data
with the greatest clarity, and (3) your analysis of your company
given the selected
criterion. In other words, have you thought critically about the
meaning of your
selected criterion and demonstrate an understanding of how the
data and its
visualization can inform an investor.
When selecting a criterion, you should use one of Warren
Buffet’s approaches: “Do

you understand how it works?” Since you can select any of the
criteria, you should
consider whether you fully understand the criterion, whether
you can find data that
would inform its analysis, and whether the data lends itself to
visualization.
Task 4.1: Selection of Criteria and Visualization
For Task 4.1.1, select one (1) of the criteria, shown below in
“Task 4 Buffet
Investment Criteria”, for this task. Your answer should include
both the identifier
and the descriptions of your criterion from the list shown below
(e.g., “Analysis
Criterion 1: Is the company conservatively financed?”) for this
question.
For Task 4.1.2, select a specific visualization (e.g., a type of
chart or graph) you
recommend using to best inform an investor about the criterion
that you selected for
this task. You may select any chart or graph style (e.g., line or
bar graph, pie chart,
waterfall chart, radar chart, or treemap graph); however, you
may not select a table
or a bulleted list of information as your visualization method.
For Task 4.1.2, you
only need to include the name of visualization included as Task
4.3, not the
visualization itself.
Task 4.2: Visualization Assessment

125 – 175 words) describing how you understand how your
proposed visualization
would inform an investor about the selected criterion. Note
that you will not be
assessed on whether your assessment is a correct interpretation
of the use of the
criterion or visualization, just upon the strength and clarity of
your analysis.
In addition, you should assess whether or not your assigned
stock, based the
information presented in your visualization, meets the
requirements for a quality
investment using the Buffet criteria you selected. Be sure to
justify your answer,
include any sources you used to inform your discussion, with
appropriate citations.
Task 4.3: Buffet Assessment Data Visualization
For Task 4.3, using the appropriate financial data, create the
visualization you
proposed in Task 4.1.2 for your assigned stock. While you may
use any source for
the data for your visualization, data is available at no cost on
Yahoo! Finance that will
meet the requirements for all of the options. The chart or graph

visualization
included for Task 4.3 must follow the “Required Table and
Figure Formatting
Options Available for Task 4 Buffet Investment Analysis
Criteria
You must select one of the following investment criteria that
were adapted from
material originally published in the book Warren Buffet Way
for your analysis. Since
each of the criterion considers a different perspective of the
valuation of a company,
you are encouraged to select a criterion that you understand and
that is well aligned
with the information available for your assigned company.
In the article The Buffett Approach to Valuing Stocks published
in Pepperdine
University’s Graziadio Business Review, Steven Ferraro
discusses the process Warren
Buffett uses to determine the intrinsic value of a publicly traded
stock.
see: http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/the-buffett-approach-to-
valuing-stocks/
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 1: Is the company conservatively
financed?
Buffett seeks out companies with conservative financing, such
as companies with
total liabilities relative to total assets that are below the median

for their respective
industry, low debt to capitalization or low debt to equity. For
the purposes on this
analysis, you may use the average of 2 (two) competitors in the
same “industry,” as
shown on Yahoo! Finance in the “Company Profile” shown on
the Summary page.
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 2: Are earnings strong and show an
upward trend?
Buffett looks for companies with strong, consistent, and
expanding earnings. While
Buffet screens for companies with 7-year earnings per share
growth greater than
75% of all firms and consistent earnings; however, for this
analysis, you are only
required to use the 3 years available at no cost on Yahoo!
Finance.
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 3: Has the company been buying
back its shares?
Buffett prefers that firms reinvest their earnings within the
company, provided that
profitable opportunities exist. When companies have excess
cash flow, Buffett favors
shareholder-enhancing maneuvers such as share buybacks.
Task 4 Analysis Criterion 4: Is the company’s return on equity
above average?
Buffett considers it a positive sign when a company is able to
earn above-average
returns on equity. Mary Buffett indicates that an average return
on equity is

approximately 12% over the most recent 7 fiscal years;
however, for this analysis,
you are only required to use the 3 years available at no cost on
Yahoo! Finance.
http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/the-buffett-approach-to-
valuing-stocks/
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assignment’s total point
value for the course grading rubric, may be subject to change
with advance notice, as
deemed appropriate by the instructor, including, but not limited
to typographical
errors, factual errors, omissions, or other material included
herein as needed to
reflect the requirements of the course correctly.
Any changes made to the assignment’s guidelines will be
announced during a Flex/In-
Person class discussion and updated guidelines posted in the
assignment’s folder.
You are responsible for all announced changes to the
assignment’s guidelines. If you
have any questions or concerns regarding any changes to the
assignment guidelines,
please contact the Instructional Team at [email protected]
Changes and Errata List
Changes made to the schedule are documented below and
announced on D2L.
• Initial Release: 26 September 2022
The D2L submission process (i.e., the upload of your report
must
finish and a confirmation message displayed by D2L) must be
completed by 11:59pm local Tucson time (MST or UTC/GMT-7)
by
the assignment due date. This is a hard deadline and no
extensions
are offered to the on-time assignment due date, so be sure to

plan
your work and submission attempts accordingly.
Online Sources of Financial Information
1) The Investor Relations section of your company’s website
An important source of financial information for any company
can be found in the
“investor relations” section of your company’s corporate
website.
2) Financial Reporting Websites
• Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/ (recommended)
• Money: http://money.cnn.com/
• Google: http://www.google.com/finance
• NASDAQ: https://www.nasdaq.com/
• NYSE: https://www.nyse.com/

Many of these online services offer current and historical stock
pricing, financial
information, corporate background, and other investment
information. While some
financial terms are unique to each site, the guidelines generally
reflect terminology
used on Google Finance and Yahoo Finance.
3) Dictionaries to investment terms
• http://www.Investopedia.com
This website offers definitions of investment terminology and
formulas to investment
metrics used in this assignment.
4) Financial Analysis Websites
• http://www.Reuters.com
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia
news agency,
providing investing news, world news, business news,
technology news, headline
news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock
market, and mutual
funds information available on Reuters.com,
• http://www.bloomberg.com/
One of the best financial websites out there, Bloomberg is all
about up-to-date
business analysis and financial data. The site has a good
personal finance section with
news supported by videos and four calculator tools.

http://finance.yahoo.com/
http://money.cnn.com/
http://www.google.com/finance
https://www.nasdaq.com/
https://www.nyse.com/
http://www.investopedia.com/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.bloomberg.com/

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