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TASK 1:

Search the Internet for companies that supply utility computing. Select 2 or 3 companies and compare them to Amazon.

What services do these companies provide? What promises do they make about availability? Grammatical and mechanical errors will be checked.

TASK 2:

This is a required assignment worth 15 points (15-points/1000-points). Assignment must be submitted by the due date. No late assignments are allowed.

Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.

The discussion questions this week are from Chapter 11 (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 11 topics:

1. Define software architecture.

2. Define and describe SOA.

3. Compare and contrast a web page and a web service.

4. Search the Web for companies that offer web services and then describe three to five web services that programmers might integrate into the applications they create.

5. Discuss what it means for a web service to be interoperable.

TASK 3:

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

Why are statistical programming languages important to data scientists? Please provide a specific use case for a data scientist to apply a statistical language to a data set. What are some advantages and disadvantages the R programming language has over the other main statistical programming  languages (i.e. Python, SAS, SQL)?