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With all of the recent frauds and corporate scandals similar to Merck, AIG, Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and ImClone you have heard. Your supervisor has asked you to research news sites and read articles on the potential legal and ethical issues related to data analysis organizations have gone through in the recent past. After reading these sites, you have become interested on researching additional resources on the data analysis by using the Library, the Internet, and all other resources that are linked to this case and you want to research and prepare a report that summarizes the following questions relevant to data analysis on a specific organization of your choice.

1.How did the company you have researched use or misuse data to support their decisions?
2.What were the results?
3.What are the limitations and significance of the data?
4.What are ethical implications of data misuses in this case?

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With all of the recent frauds and corporate scandals similar to Merck, AIG, Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and ImClone you have heard. Your supervisor has asked you to research news sites and read articles on the potential legal and ethical issues related to data analysis organizations have gone through in the recent past. After reading these sites, you have become interested on researching additional resources on the data analysis by using the Library, the Internet, and all other resources that are linked to this case and you want to research and prepare a report that summarizes the following questions relevant to data analysis on a specific organization of your choice.
1.How did the company you have researched use or misuse data to support their decisions?
The company that I have researched is Waste Management. This company offers comprehensive waste management and environmental services in the US. It is in the business of collection, transpiration, processing, recycling or disposal of waste material. The company misused ...

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