Intro to the Final Project Format

overview

• students will be in groups of about five to collectively do a data analysis project.
• choose a public health related dataset that has quite a few columns and observations.
• students should think about if there are datasets they can merge together to create more interesting observations.

data sources

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg American Health Initiative Open Case Studies Project https://americanhealth.jhu.edu/open-case-studies
• CDC Websites like:
  • CDC WONDER (https://wonder.cdc.gov/)
  • AtlasPlus (https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/Atlas/)
  • Social Vulnerability Index (https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/placeandhealth/svi/index.html)
  • CDC Data and Statistics (https://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/index.html)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79)
• Data Portals like the City of Chicago’s (https://data.cityofchicago.org/), King County WA (https://data.kingcounty.gov/)
• Data.gov (https://data.gov/)
• datasets used in Kaggle competitions (https://www.kaggle.com/) (signup required)
• Google’s Dataset Search (https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/)
• Search the NYTimes GitHub repositories for “-data”: https://github.com/nytimes/
• Tidytuesday Datasets: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday
• Harvard DataVerse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/

organization

• Work together to submit a GitHub repository that contains a reproducible document created in R Markdown or Quarto including its code.
• Both the R Markdown / Quarto document and the GitHub repository itself should be well organized and documented.
• In the reproducible document produced, we are looking to see the following:
  • An introduction to the topic and motivation
  • Text describing the analysis/programming
  • Conclusions
  • At least one (nice) table
  • Either one very nice, polished infographic style figure, or a few informative, well-labeled and interesting figures about what you found in investigating the data.
  • Please include an author contributions statement at the end.

rubric

Objective/Principle	Percent of Grade
Does the project demonstrate the reproducible workflow principles taught in the class? This includes: Clearly commented code A well-organized GitHub repository The creation of informative, well-labeled visualizations and at least one table	75%
The repository should include reflections about what students learned in the process of completing the final project. These reflections should note what students figured out how to do along-the-way what they struggled with what they wouldn’t have been able to do before taking this class, and what principles they found useful in decision-making during the project.	25%

a quick survey

please do the following survey:

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