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This is the start of the template below:


Research Project Title


Student Name 1:: ____________________
Student Name 2: ____________________


Summary of research questions

Give a numbered list of 3 or more research questions and a brief description of what you will investigate. Each research question should have 1–3 sentences and propose something that can be definitively answered, not just a general topic or area of investigation.


Motivation

In one or two paragraphs, expand on your research questions by providing context about why you care, or why anyone should care. How does knowing the answers affect the world or our understanding of it?


Schedule

You will delivery your initial project schedule. Link to your schedule spreadsheet will go here. You must share or include the spreadsheet from your GitHub project.


Datasets

This is the MOST important part of this document. (more details below) You will do the following:

You need to list out all your datasets, sources, caveats, important columns, data values, and relevant information. This section should contain multiple tables or other easy to read formats. While you may copy some information from your datasource, it is critical that you understand the data.

You should:

  1. List all datasets

  2. List important columns from each dataset

  3. Examine challenges with the data

See the Dataset Example for more details.


Challenge goals