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Overview (Due Apr. 25)
The final draft of the project is due April 25. It will account for 50% of your grade. Each student will use Quarto to produce a data-analytics report on a question of the student’s chosing.
The report should include the following:
- Introduction
- Introduce the problem and the purpose of the analysis. Here you should also introduce the argument (the answer to the question/problem) that the rest of your analysis will prove.
- Data Description
- Provide a detailed description of the data analyzed. How was it collected? Did it need any types of processing?
- Methodology
- Describe the analytical tools and methods employed in the process.
- Analysis
- Include an in-depth description of the actual analysis
- Findings
- Discuss the key insights and results of the analysis.
- Discussion
- The interpretation of the findings.
- Conclusion
- Concluding the report. It should do more than merely reiterate or summarize what has already been stated. It should certainly reinforce the findings and the primary argument. But it should also demonstrate the implications of the report as a whole.
Requirements
- 3200 words (minimum)
- 3 visualizations (minimum)
- Appropriate citations that follow a specific format.
- If you are using a dataset, you must cite the source of the data.
- If you reference an article, you must cite the article.
- Analysis is based on more than one dataset.
Note
While these aspects of the report are necessary, it does not mean they should form a hard-and-fast format for the report. For instance, findings and discussions are frequently combined, or analysis and findings can be combined into a single section.