Initial Post“Why do we need to understand data visualisations? There is more and more data around us, and data are increasingly used in decision-making, journalism, and to make sense of the world. One of the main ways that people get access to data is through visualisations, but lots of people feel like they don’t have the skills and knowledge to make sense of visualisations. This can mean that some people feel left out of conversations about data.” - http://seeingdata.org/developing-visualisation-literacy/Please conduct the following activity located at the following address:http://seeingdata.org/developing-visualisation-literacy/rate-these-visualisations/Tell us what you think of the visualisations that we used in our focus group research. Instructions below!What to doLook at the visualisations by clicking on the images below. You can choose to open the visualisation in a NEW tab or window (we recommend this) or view it in a pop-up window if you prefer to stay on this page. Some are interactive (i) and some are static (s).Place the images on the grid. When you’ve looked at one, go to the grid and position the image according to whether you liked or didn’t like and learned or didn’t learn something from the visualisation (‘learning something’ could also mean confirming something you already knew). Only place the visualisations that you have looked at onto the grid. Click SUBMIT.Compare your views with others. You can compare your responses to the visualisations with those of others, by clicking COMPARE.Choose three of your favorite visualisations. Post a 3 – 5 sentence summary of why you chose the visualisations. What caught your attention? Were they effective in presenting the provided data? If possible, explain how you would you do to improve the visualization?Discussion Length (word count): At least 250 words (not including direct quotes).References: At least two peer-reviewed, scholarly journal references.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the articles The Next 20 Years Are Going to Make the Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing in Tech (Links to an external site.)(Shontell, 2014) and Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years (Boudette, 2016) and read the chapters listed below in the Limoncelli, Hogan, and Chalup (2017) text:Chapter 1: Climbing Out of the HoleChapter 2: The Small Batches PrincipleChapter 3: Pets and CattleChapter 4: Infrastructure as CodeIn addition to your readings, you will need to do some research on your own in the university library.For this assignment, you will take on the role of a fictitious system administrator, who was recently hired to join an IT team. Upon your arrival at the organization, you learn that this company was started 5 years ago and needs an IT infrastructure overhaul. While it started out as a single company, it has since expanded not only in its number of locations, but in its use of technology. In fact, a lot of changes in technology have affected how the company is currently performing its daily business routines and processes.In this written assignment, you will describe how outdated technology affected the company’s growth. You will need to consider the technology that initially was used by the organization, the technology that you will install, and how the new technology will increase the organization’s overall performance. Let your imagination run wild! Pablo Picasso said, “Everything you can imagine is real.” Below you will find a list of current technology at the company.Current Technology:One Netgear Hub with 12 portsOne PC with Windows XP installed.8 GB of RAM1 802.11 Wireless NICOne hard connected printerIn your paper,Describe how outdated technology affected the organization.Explain how the organizations use of technology can be updated.Describe how the company might upgrade their technologies and incorporate future technologies, including your specific suggestions.Describe benefits and pitfalls to the upgrades and future technologies you have suggested.Recommend the hardware and software upgrades needed based on the company’s three locations and their needs. The Outdated Technology PaperMust be one to two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paper in bold fontSpace should be between title and the rest of the information on the title pageStudent’s nameName of institutionCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDue dateMust utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for this assignment.To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial,

Systems and Controls Assessment Consider you are the IT manager for a large international organization. You have been tasked to assess the company’s information systems and security controls. Your report should contain: Describe identification, authentication, and authorization. Explore whether or not you would use Windows ACLs and explain your reasoning. Evaluate best practices for managing Microsoft Windows and application vulnerabilities. Keep in mind, we are more interested in your ability to describe the steps you would take to review security goals than providing an answer to this scenario. Remember the strategy of Think, Plan, Design, Implement, and Evaluate.