Exploratory Data Analysis Project Paper

The final project will be ashortexploratory data analysis using a real data setto investigate some research questions. At a minimum, the project must involve importing and cleaning data and

creating visualizations and/or statistical summaries that help to address the research questions. The most successful projects will incorporate multiple and varied aspects of the coding techniques we cover in class. There is no required page length. The document should be written in R Markdown and turned in as a .pdf or .html file. Note that the R Markdown file for the final project should be well–organized (i.e., with sections and headers) and readable (i.e., it should be free from typographical errors and the writing should flow well). Data from Kaggle and machine learning repositories are not allowed. PLOS ONE is my first recommendation for places to look for data.

• Project details and syllabus are attached.

Here are some links to publicly available data resources:

• • PLOS ONE – open access journal that requires all data be made publicly available; search for a randomized trial; papers published after 2016 are more likely to have data files availablehttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/
• • data.gov – open data from the US government; search for a randomized trialhttps://data.gov/
• • Harvard Datahub for Field Experiments – data from randomized experiments in the social scienceshttps://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/DFEEP
• • OPEN ICPSC – social, behavioral, and health sciences research datahttps://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/
• • Journal of Open Psychology Data – openly available data from a variety of papershttps://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/

• • Data – Open Access Journal – open access journal on data in sciencehttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/data
• • The National Center for Education Statisticshttps://nces.ed.gov/, including ECLShttps://nces.ed.gov/surveys/SurveyGroups.asp?group…
• • The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, available from the CDChttps://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/data.ht…
• • The Current Population Survey, available from the U.S. Census Bureauhttps://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/data-d…
• • The Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study, available from Princeton University https://fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/documentatio…