Purpose of the article review assignment

The field of Data Science and analytics is ever changing and evolving. Staying current in this space will take more than just completing the content in this course. To support your overall knowledge and understanding of data and analytics you will complete article reviews every other week for the duration of the course. The selection of articles is up to you. However, links are provided here as examples of the kind of article you might select.

Example articles

(Provided for guidance as to what I’m looking for; yes, you may use any of these.)

• Trends in Analytics

• HBR Topic – Analytics

• CIO – Data Analytics trends that will dominate 2018

• Forbes – Data analytics no longer a nice option

• McKinsey – Age of Analytics

Write 1-2 double-spaced pages with clear style, APA formatting, and well-labeled summary and reaction sections.  

Summary of the article (50% of grade)

Give a summary of the article’s content.

Reaction to the article (40% of grade)

Your reaction may include any combination of the following (as appropriate for the article you have chosen):

• • • what you learned from the article
    • what you believe the article got right, and why
    • what you think the article got wrong, and why

NOTE: When stating your reasoning, the more you can cite something in the required course materials that backs up your statements, the higher your grade will be. Statement saying, “I disagree…” without support will not received credit.

Style (10% of grade)

This includes following APA formatting, citations of article and related resources, conventions (grammar, punctuation and spelling).