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TM351 - TMA - Spring 2024 - Questions

This document provides instructions for submitting a TMA for the TM351 Data Management and Analysis course. It outlines general submission guidelines, a warning against plagiarism, and contains three questions. Question 1 involves completing and submitting Jupyter notebooks. Question 2 involves downloading and summarizing a dataset on obesity levels. Question 3 involves formulating a research question related to investigating a dataset and writing a report of findings.

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TM351 - TMA - Spring 2024 - Questions

This document provides instructions for submitting a TMA for the TM351 Data Management and Analysis course. It outlines general submission guidelines, a warning against plagiarism, and contains three questions. Question 1 involves completing and submitting Jupyter notebooks. Question 2 involves downloading and summarizing a dataset on obesity levels. Question 3 involves formulating a research question related to investigating a dataset and writing a report of findings.

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TM351-Data Management and Analysis

TMA Spring 23/24

Cut-Off Date: Based on the Published Deadline.


Total Marks: …. marks turned to 15 marks

Contents
Warnings and Declaration…………………………………….………………………………......1
Question 1 ……………….…………………………………. ………………………………...…..2
Question 2 ………………………………………………………………………………….…..…..3
Question 3 ………………………………………………………………………………….…..…..4
Marking Criteria ...…………..………………………………………………………….………..…5

Plagiarism Warning:
As per AOU rules and regulations, all students are required to submit their own TMA
work and avoid plagiarism. The AOU has implemented sophisticated techniques for
plagiarism detection. You must provide all references in case you use and quote
another person's work in your TMA. You will be penalized for any act of plagiarism as
per the AOU's rules and regulations.

Declaration of No Plagiarism by Student (to be signed and submitted by student


with TMA work):

I hereby declare that this submitted TMA work is a result of my own efforts and I have
not plagiarized any other person's work. I have provided all references of information
that I have used and quoted in my TMA work.
Name of Student:……………………………..
Signature:…………………………………………...
Date:…………………………………………………

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1. Preamble:
This section contains general rules and guidelines for completing and submitting your
TMA.

1.1 General guidelines

This TMA is provided as a pdf file, a lab notebook template and a word template. You should
do all the coding work for this TMA in the enclosed notebook template and you should write
all your answers to the questions, requested summaries and project report in the enclosed
TMA word template. You will also work through and submit the requested course notebooks
as a separate zip file.
The TMA requires that you demonstrate an understanding of course concepts and
techniques, including your ability to assess the contents and quality of data and the ability
to apply those concepts to sample problems. It also tests your ability to formulate your own
research question, investigate it, and report your critical findings. Your tutor will be following
a detailed marking scheme, but he or she will particularly look for the following:
1. That all work is your own
2. That you have provided references in the proper format whenever required
3. That you have used the course concepts, terminology and prescribed software

1.2 Using the e-library and other external sources.


When asked to do so, you need to search the e-library and the internet to identify relevant
material. In particular, you are urged to use the following sources, all of which are freely
available to AOU students:
1. AOU’s subscribed e-library, accessible through the LMS which includes a number of
different resources
2. References provided in your course materials
3. Online manual pages for languages, libraries and tools used
4. Help forums and blogs
5. Other resources

1.3 Submitting your TMA

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For this TMA, you will be required to submit a compressed directory containing four different
items:
1. The coding work required to support your answers all inside the lab notebook template
as a sequence of markdown and well commented and solved code cells following each
question.
2. Your solved course notebooks in a compressed file.
3. The answers, summaries and conclusions as well as your research report requested in
the enclosed TMA word template.
4. Any required data sets in a separate directory named: data

Please note that all notebooks you submit must be in a solved state and must show all
outputs. Your Grader is not obliged to re-run your notebook cells.
Submit your TMA to the LMS system on (or preferably before) the cut-off date. Your tutor
will mark your script and post the grades electronically in the approved electronic channel.
1.4 Plagiarism
All work you submit must be yours and in your own words. Your tutor has tools available to
him/her to allow the detection of plagiarism from the Internet as well as from other
colleagues. Tutors will also manually check your notebooks and reports for similarity.
Furthermore, you may be quizzed on the work you submitted and/or asked to demonstrate
that it is indeed your own work. The final exam may contain questions that directly relate to
the skills you demonstrated in this TMA.
If you copy material that is not your own and submit it as your own, you are committing
plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious offence and if a case of plagiarism is detected, the Arab
Open University will apply severe penalties and disciplinary procedures.
1.4.1 Quoting and Referencing.
If you wish to quote other materials, including the TM351 learning materials, then you must
clearly acknowledge the source according to accepted rules of citation and referencing.
Note that it is not enough to simply post a reference at the end of the document without
explicitly stating which parts of your reference are being quoted. Proper citation of external
sources must be included. Also, quoting is only used in limited fashion; to stress a certain
point using the words of a well-recognized guru, for example. Large amounts of materials

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copied into your TMA will not be accepted, even if properly quoted. If you need to refer to
large amount of external material, you can simply refer to the source.
All references and accompanying citations must be in the Harvard style of referencing.
1.4.2 Getting help and collaborating with colleagues.
You can discuss the TMA with your tutor. Your tutor will help explain unclear points in the
TMA and will direct you to useful and appropriate material in the course. However, you
should not expect your tutor to supply you with answers to TMA questions. Remember that
answering the TMA is ultimately your responsibility, not your tutor’s. In addition, working the
TMA and overcoming its difficulties by yourself will help you do well in the final examination.
Sharing knowledge and information and holding discussions with your colleagues about the course
material is called group learning and is encouraged by the Arab Open University. However, at the
end, you should complete the TMA by yourself and answer the TMA, in your own words.
Collaborating in answering TMA questions is not allowed and is not the same as group learning.
You are also not allowed to use the course forum to post answers to TMA questions or to collaborate
on answering TMA questions.

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The questions
Question 1 (30 marks)
Complete and submit all the following Jupyter notebooks in the form of a "solved" .rar or .zip file:
0.1 Scribble pad
2.2.1 Data file formats -CSV
2.2.2 Data file formats – JSON
3.4 Handling missing data
4.1 Crosstabs and pivot tables
4.2 Descriptive statistics in pandas
4.4 Walkthrough
4.5 Split-apply-combine with SQL and pandas
4.6 Introducing regular expressions
4.7 Reshaping data with pandas
--- show at least three screenshots from OpenRefine
5.1 Anscombe’s Quartet - visualising data
5.2 Getting started with maps – folium
8.1 Movies dataset
9.2 SQL DML
14.2 Introduction to accidents

Please note that:


You will receive 1 mark for each completed notebook, including your own scribble pad notebook
and screenshots of the OpenRefine tool, for a total of 30 marks.
Please note that:
• Partially completed notebooks will not be counted. All outputs must be shown.
• Please demonstrate your active interaction with each notebook by including your own
additions and/or extensions to the code and/or your own additional comments. Use a double
hash sign '##' to distinguish your comments from those already provided in the notebook.

Your tutor may quiz you on the contents of the notebooks you provide.

Question 2 (10 marks)

Place all your coding work for this question in the lab notebook template and your 300-word
summary in the TMA word processing template.
Download the dataset from
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/544/estimation+of+obesity+levels+based+on+eating+habits+and
+physical+condition
This dataset include data for the estimation of obesity levels in individuals from the countries of
Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, based on their eating habits and physical condition.
Write a summary of your understanding of the purpose and contents of this dataset and your
assessment of the quality of the data. To do this, you must develop code to explore the data
programmatically in a notebook and provide it as part of your answer.
Write a summary (~ 300 words) in word processing document which includes the following:
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• The contents of the above dataset with detailed description (4 marks)
• The quality of the data with respect to validity, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and
uniformity (2.5 marks)
• Estimate the amount of dirtiness of the data of each type and discuss its potential impact
of the goal of the analysis (3.5 marks).

Question 3 – Project (45 marks)


Place all your coding work for this question in the lab notebook template and your project report in
the TMA word processing template.
In answering this question, you will benefit from the experience you gained in the previous question.
In this question, you will formulate your own research question OR hypothesis and investigate it and
write a report of your findings in your Solution document. The research question OR hypothesis
should be related to investigating the relationships between a selected independent variable and a
selected dependent variable. You can also investigate the differences between two or more groups
with respect to a variable.
Your investigation must include the use of a proper measure of correlation/other suitable measures
to show the relationships/ differences between your selected variables and appropriate visualizations.
Visualizations can be provided either by utilizing folium or matplotlib.
For example, you may wish to investigate the relationship between
• Frequency of alcohol intake and obesity level
• Mode of transportation and obesity level
• Intake of high calorie food and obesity level
• Frequency of physical activity and obesity level
The above given relationships are just samples, there are many other relationships that you can
investigate.
Study the data sets, analyze it, and then prepare a research document according to the following
report structure:
1. Executive summary
• A summary of your project (2 marks)

2. Aims and objectives


• A brief description about the general aims of your project (1 mark)
• and more detailed objectives to achieve those aims (2 marks)

3. The Research Question/ Hypothesis


• State your research question/Hypothesis by:
i. identifying the independent variables (2 marks), and
ii. the dependent variables you wish to investigate (2 marks).

4. Analysis and Findings


• Produce convincing correlations demonstrating a statistically significant correlation
among your chosen independent and dependent variables. You must choose an

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appropriate statistical method for the types of measure in the variables in your study.
(4 marks).
• Give your critical interpretation and conclusions about those observed correlations.
(2 marks)
• Produce tabular summaries of the data in the form of crosstabs or pivot tables (4
marks), along with your critical interpretation of those tables (2 marks).
• At least two relevant visualizations (6 marks) along with your critical interpretations
of each visualization (2 marks).
• Your final answer to the research question/ hypothesis you posed (2 mark)
• and critical comment on your conclusions. (2 mark)

5. Reflection
• Reflect on:
i. your experience with the project (2 mark),
ii. what you learned (1 mark),
iii. what you went well (1 mark),
iv. what went wrong (1 mark)
v. and how can you benefit from this experience in future projects (1 mark)

6. References
• At least 6 references. All references must be in the Harvard style of referencing and
must be accompanied by proper citations in the text. (6 marks)

Question 4 – Theory (15 marks)


1. Choose any dataset of type CSV. Use python code to
a. Write its shape.(4 marks)
b. Provide information about the dataset. (3 marks)
c. Provide statistical summary of the data set. (4 marks)
d. Find the pairwise correlation of all columns in the data frame.(4 marks)

End of TMA Questions


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