Anyway, what's wanted for assignment 3? This is more about preparation for what your final project will be. You do not have to keep to the topic you discussed before. If you've found something more appropriate or appealing, use it instead.A short paper, for the drop box, which says the following:A. What is the subject of the envisaged project? A quick statement of what you are investigating and hope to demonstrate. For example, and I'm not saying that either of the following hypotheses are true, here are some fairly flippant things to look at: "clothing designers prefer brighter colors in years of economic growth" or "are there baseball teams that win more often on cold days than they win on hot days?". (the first has references like http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone.aspx?pg=21111&ca=90 and the second http://www.baseball-reference.com/). More serious examples would be "are we overfishing the world's oceans?" or "the rise and fall of digital cameras." (first starting with perhapshttp://www.ices.dk/marine-data/dataset-collections/Pages/Fish-catch-and-stock-assessment.aspx and the second from https://petapixel.com/2014/12/15/chart-shows-badly-digital-camera-sales-getting-hammered-smartphones/).Based on the earlier assignments a number of people are overly ambitious - it is not likely that you are going to be able to predict the stock market or the results of the NFL season in a few weeks of class work. Pick something that you can imagine describing in a few pages with a few charts, and will have some conclusion. It's more important to have visualizations of your results than statistical measures. The late Richard Hamming (inventor of error-correcting codes) once said "the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."You are welcome to use my examples for your project, or variations on them. But you should pick something you understand. If you can't tell a herring from a halibut, you might want to avoid the fish project. I assume most people will do something they thought of themselves.B. What are the data you are going to use? You should have found one or more datasets, with accessible numerical data. You may explain that you are going to have to do some editing of the data; I'm always going through files removing extraneous characters, reformatting, etc. If you aren't familiar with editors or a language in which character editing is simple (i.e. not R, but Python or Perl), be careful to choose some data that doesn't need much preprocessing. Please include in the paper some URL (or printed source) and the column headings (data schema) of what you want to use. In fact, include one sample row of data to be sure you can get through the basic download and extraction work.C. What is an example of a conclusion about data that you like and might want to model your paper on? This can be a popular article or a scientific article, but something that uses the kind of data you are going to work with and says something about it. Find such an article and provide a brief summary and explanation of why it's an example of using data for investigation or argument. Here are some examples which address important public policies and have gotten a lot of attention:1. We used to put tetraethyl lead into all automotive gasoline. Did that cause increased crime in the 1970s-1980s? Kevin Drum popularized this hypothesis with impressive charts tracking crime. Seehttp://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-healthfor one of his articles andhttp://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdffor similar data in other countries. Note that this is politically controversial - if you start researching the subject you'll find a lot of criticism of this hypothesis. My interest right now is the way he and his colleagues used data and graphics to make his point.2. Did "austerity" (national budget cutting) hurt national economies, particularly in Europe, over the last ten years? Paul Krugman has written often about this, for examplehttps://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/austerity-and-growth-again-wonkish/andhttps://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/the-expansionary-austerity-zombie/.Again, note his reliance on data and charts. This is even more politically controversial - there is an entire industry of economists attacking Paul Krugman. 3. Is energy production going to shift from fossil fuels to wind and solar? See for example,http://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-output-uk-two-thirds-higher-coal-july-85288/and a less convinced estimate (this topic is controversial as well):http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=109514. And here's one that isn't controversial: how can you classify music by style, and are children's preferences in music changing over the last few decades?http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME08/The_four_dimensions_of_popular_music.shtml5. Finally, a self-serving topic: should you learn R to get a job?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/popularity/Anyway, your submission should include one (or more) examples of a paper or article in the topic area you have chosen that shows a conclusion based on some data. In this case I will say that if you use one of my examples find an article in addition to the ones I've given just above.How long should this be? Well, perhaps 5 pages is a good target, But length is less important than having a topic, a data source, and a sample of somebody else who's written about the area, with some comments on the data and the article.

Part A. Research Component: Alignment with IS/IT CapabilitiesEnterprise X wants to become more relevant to the global marketplace. As a Corporate Information Systems Management expert, you understand the role that IT Infrastructure plays in an internetworking environment. The problem is getting the decision makers at Enterprise X to understand what the technical requirements are for participation in the global marketplace. Business managers with a vision of the future for their company do not always know what is required to realize that vision. You, however, know that in order to make the necessary strategic shifts you are recommending, it will also be necessary to align the company's corporate strategy with a new IS/IT strategy.An effective way to communicate the IS/IT requirements for this major strategic shift is to describe how Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can impact IT Infrastructure and how adopting SOA can enable Enterprise X with the IS/IT capabilities to enter the global marketplace. Research SOA and explain how business processes built into individual packages that can operate independently will make the IS/IT capabilities of Enterprise X more flexible for aligning a new corporate strategy with its IT Infrastructure.(Note: You may also want to find relevant case studies on SOA and SOI [Service Oriented Infrastructure] vendor Web sites.) To submit your assignment:Use Microsoft Word to write a 700 to 750-word Position Paper that describes your findings and recommendations.You may include diagrams and illustrations to enhance and/or clarify technical issues. Remember that you will draw from this Position Paper to prepare your PowerPoint presentation.Follow APA guidelines to write the report and cite your sources as appropriate.Part B. Presentation Component: IS/IT CapabilitiesYou have already researched pertinent issues and prepared a Position Paper that will guide you in presenting your proposed corporate strategy for Enterprise X. Now you must also prepare a new part of your strategy proposal where you will present your proposed IT Infrastructure based on SOA. Extract the more important technical issues from the Position Paper that you completed to create your PowerPoint presentation component for this week.

Find a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article discussing blockchain technology. Complete a review of the article by writing a 2-3 page overview of the article. This will be a detailed summary of the journal article, including concepts discussed and findings. Additionally, find one other source (it does not have to be a peer-reviewed journal article) that substantiates the findings in the article you are reviewing. You should use the university library and/or Google Scholar to find these types of articles (https://scholar.google.com/ )Once you find the article, you will read it and write a review of it. This is considered a research article review.Your paper should meet these requirements: Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.Strictly No PlagiarismReading AssignmentsTextbook, Chapter 11: Mastering Blockchain (pdf attached)Kshetri, N. (2017). Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? Third World Quarterly, 38(8), 1710–1732. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1298438Varghese, J. J., Sharma, D., & Singh, N. K. (2019). Analysing the Impact of Blockchain Technology in India’s Digital Economy. Global Journal of Enterprise Information System, 10(3), 94–99. https://doi.org/10.18311/gjeis/2019