SOM 485 COVID19 and How It Affected Unemployment Rates Discussion

SOM 485 – Decision Support Systems Class Project

Real world decision problem: COVID-19 and how it affected unemployment rates and how it has gotten better now.

With the real-world decision problem above, you will build a small decision support model to help the decision-maker facing this problem. You are welcome to use any tool you prefer, such as spreadsheets, databases, Tableau, Solver, R, Rattle, etc.

The model can be used for the following:

It can perform different types of quantitative analysis

It can perform data visualization which can aid the decision-maker

It can help the decision-maker to test out different solution alternatives.

Deliverables:

A written report containing the problem definition, decision support model and results.

Grading Criteria

Project Report:

Submit a report that must be typed and may include the following:

Introduction

Define the problem and issue(s)

Approach and tool(s) used for the analysis

Features or results which include charts (not the spreadsheet) and brief analysis of each

Conclusion

Appendix (include URLs for Tableau Public and data file source