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As a demonstration of your learning in this course, you will design and carry out a quantitative research project, start to finish. This means you will all: | As a demonstration of your learning in this course, you will design and carry out a quantitative research project, start to finish. This means you will all: | ||
* '''Design and describe a social scientific study''' — You should all have experience doing this at least once in COM520. The study you design should involves quantitative analysis and should | * '''Design and describe a social scientific study''' — You should all have experience doing this at least once in COM520. The study you design should involves quantitative analysis and should something you can complete at least a first pass at over the course of this quarter. | ||
* '''Find a dataset''' — Very quickly, you should identify a dataset you will use to complete this project. For most of you, I suspect you will be engaging in secondary data analysis or a re-analysis of a previously collected dataset. | * '''Find a dataset''' — Very quickly, you should identify a dataset you will use to complete this project. For most of you, I suspect you will be engaging in secondary data analysis or a re-analysis of a previously collected dataset. | ||
* '''Engage in descriptive data analysis''' — Use R to create descriptive statistics and visualization to describe your data. | * '''Engage in descriptive data analysis''' — Use R to create descriptive statistics and visualization to describe your data. |