Option #1: Data Reduction Approach to Data Analytics
Complete Lab 3-1: Data Reduction (pages 116-120 in your text). Answer the following questions:
Q1. What data do you think might exist to show that a vendor is related to an employee? Which attributes would you focus on?
Q2. How might you attempt to detect these connections between vendors and employees?
Q3. If you were the employee committing fraud, what would you try to do with the data to evade detection?
Q4. How many vendors have similar addresses to employees?
Q5. What do you notice about the street vendor and employee street addresses?
Q6. Are there any false positives (fuzzy matches that aren’t really matches)?
Required: Submit all answers to the questions in a properly formatted Word document. Submit one Excel file with the tabs for each of the parts.
Your well-written paper must be 3-4 pages in addition to title and reference pages, page paper must include five references, and at least two being scholarly/peer-reviewed discovered through the CSU-Global library. The paper should be formatted according to theCSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.. Cite at least two peer-reviewed sources in addition to the required reading for the module.


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