VCE Applied Computing Data Analytics case studies
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VCE Applied Computing: Data Analytics is a Victorian senior secondary study (Units 3 and 4) assessed through school-based coursework and an end-of-year written examination set by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. It suits students who want to work with real datasets: gathering and validating data, cleaning and transforming it, building visualisations, and drawing defensible conclusions that inform decisions. The VCE Applied Computing Data Analytics case studies are 5 cases and about 2,862 words.
1The Loyalty Survey That Overstated Satisfaction
A regional gym chain with 12,000 members emails a satisfaction survey to all members; 1,840 responses arrive. The marketing manager reports '92% of members are satisfied' and plans to raise prices.
563 words, about 3 min2The Attendance Dashboard That Hid Its Own Gaps
A school's wellbeing team builds a dashboard tracking unexplained absences by year level. Attendance data is exported weekly from three systems: the timetable system (period attendance), the front-office sign-in log (late arrivals), and a paper-based excursion register that a teacher photographs and emails.
549 words, about 3 min3The Free App and the Consent Problem
A community sports club wants to use a free third-party app to collect player health and injury data (injuries, medication, pregnancy status for a netball program) so coaches can manage training loads. The app's terms state that data may be shared with 'partners' and stored on servers overseas; the club has not read the privacy policy in full.
596 words, about 3 min4The Sales Forecast Built on a Broken Join
An analyst is asked to forecast next quarter's revenue for a small online retailer. They combine three files: an orders file (order ID, customer ID, date, amount), a customers file (customer ID, postcode, signup date), and a marketing spend file (month, channel, spend).
562 words, about 3 min5The Volunteer Project That Ran Out of Time
A team of four students is building a data analytics solution for a local council: a dashboard of park usage from foot-traffic sensors and bin-weight sensors. They have six weeks and meet two hours per week.
592 words, about 3 min