The Value of Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age

Research Websites and other technologies that provide private information on U.S. citizens.

3-4 page paper :

1. List and describe at least three (3) technologies that allow an individual to research citizens’ private data.
2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public access to this information, both for the researchers and those who are being “ investigated”.
3. Determine what measures citizens can take to protect private information or information they do not want to be disclosed.
4. Discuss a federal law that grants the federal government the legal right to make private information on U.S. citizens available to the public, and whether or not you agree with this law.
5. Determine whether there are “electronic privacy laws” that can prevent others from having access to “private information” as well as how effective they are.

Collaboration in a business environment is a best practice that leverages the collective knowledge of the team assembled. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, result in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5 and present a preliminary outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

Objectives

1.  Is the Massachusetts data set population or sample data?  Please explain your answer.

2.  Is the Boston data set population or sample data?  Please explain your answer.

3.  Are the values in columns E, F, and G discrete or continuous variables?  Please explain your answer.

4.  Label a worksheet “4. MA sorted” and perform a custom sort on the Massachusetts data on “complete reports” from highest to lowest.  To make a copy for sorting, right click on the worksheet name “Massachusetts” then click copy. An additional “Massachusetts” worksheet will appear and you will need to rename that worksheet “MA sorted”

5.  Label a worksheet “5. Boston sorted” and sort the Boston “Complete Reports” from lowest to highest.   What is the average number of completed reports for Massachusetts and for Boston.

6.  Label a worksheet “6.  MA categorized”.  Create this additional worksheet the same way you created the new sheet in question 4.  Add a column that transforms the “Missing Reports” to “Missing Categories”.  Hospitals with 0-3 missing reports are category A; 4-6 are category B and 7-9 are category C.

7.  Using the Boston dataset, create a basic bar graph that shows the number of complete reports for each hospital.  Be sure to label the sheet “7. Boston bar graph”

8.  Perform a custom sort on the Massachusetts data and create a listing which is alphabetical order by city name.  You will be sorting the entire string of data that goes with the city name (not just listing the cities).  You will need a new worksheet and you should label it “8. MA city sort”

9.  Create a frequency distribution of the completed reports for the Massachusetts dataset on a worksheet labeled “9. MA freq completed reports”.

10.  Create a pie chart of the complete reports for the Boston dataset and display on a worksheet labeled “10. Boston pie”.

11.  Create a cumulative frequency distribution for missing reports in the Massachusetts dataset and display all of your work on a worksheet labeled “11. MA freq missing reports”.

12.  Create a worksheet labeled “12. Narrative” And answer the following questions:

a.  Please list and describe the four types of frequency distributions. 

b.  Which type of distribution applies to the one you created for question 9?

13.  Create a worksheet labeled “13. Hypothesis” and using the Massachusetts dataset test the hypothesis H0: complete reports for cities =3 against the alternative H1: complete reports <3, and indicate your conclusion.

Please create a worksheet labeled “14.-15. Narrative” and answer the following two questions.

14.  Which statistical test is used to assess the independence of two variables when both variables are categorical? 

15.  Which statistical test is used to assess the independence of two variables when one variable is a numerical variable measured in either discrete or continuous units and the other is a categorical variable taking on only two values.