PowerPoint Presentation Quantitative Reasoning II

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PowerPoint Presentation Quantitative Reasoning II

PowerPoint Presentation Quantitative Reasoning II

This assignment is not due until Week 5, Day 7; however, we encourage you to begin working on this project in advance. Below are the details, which will also be presented in Week 5.

Create a 5- to 6-slide presentation that must include:

  • One slide for the introduction
    • Introduce your topic and question that you chose in Week 2.
    • Why did it interest you? How does it relate to life?
    • What should the audience learn from your presentation?
  • Three to four slides of your visuals
    • Show your tables, scatter plot, other 2 visuals, calculations, and any other evidence to support your conclusion(s) that you created in Week 3.
    • Explain what information in the data tables is not needed for your analysis.
    • Discuss what you can conclude from the visuals. How do these visuals support your conclusion?
  • One slide for a conclusion
    • Restate your topic and question and give your answer to the scenario.
    • How confident are you that your conclusion is sound?
    • What work would need to be done to increase your confidence?
    • Discuss what you learned from this project.

Include detailed speaker notes for each slide.

Topic from Week 2

Security and Criminal Justice Scenario

Topic 2

Predicting Total U.S. correctional population

Scenario 2

Review the data on persons supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems by correctional status. Predict the number of the United States population that will be supervised by U.S. adult correctional system in 2018.

Year

Total U.S. correctional population

Probation

Parole

2000

6,467,800

3,839,400

725,500

2001

6,584,900

3,934,500

731,100

2002

6,730,900

3,995,000

753,100

2003

6,886,800

4,073,800

773,500

2004

6,997,000

4,140,400

775,900

2005

7,055,600

4,162,300

784,400

2006

7,199,700

4,236,800

798,200

2007

3,046,700

4,293,000

826,100

2008

7,313,600

4,270,100

828,200

2009

7,235,200

4,196,200

824,100

2010

7,086,500

4,053,600

840,700

2011

6,989,200

3,969,400

854,600

2012

6,945,100

3,940,800

857,800

2013

6,903,200

3,910,600

855,200

2014

6,851,000

3,864,100

856,900

The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think about what types of data-oriented problems you will be solving in your chosen career. In this assignment, you will select a topic and an associated problem to solve. You will continue to work on analyzing and solving this problem throughout the remainder of this course.