Announcements:

• November 12, 2018 class is cancelled. I can be available later that week to answer questions.
• Project
  • Please attempt to complete the project proposal by next week (October 29)
  • Can be completed in groups of two or three
  • Proposal template can be downloaded here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbryer/CRJ504Fall2018/master/Project/proposal_template.Rmd
  • Example proposal here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jbryer/CRJ504Fall2018/blob/master/Project/Example_proposal.html
• The R Cheat Sheet has been posted (see link on nav bar above)
• Data for the homework can be downloaded here: https://github.com/jbryer/DATA606Fall2018/tree/master/data/openintro.org

Resources from class:

• Slides
• R Script

Data Project

• Can be completed in groups of two or three
• Proposal template can be downloaded here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbryer/CRJ504Fall2018/master/Project/proposal_template.Rmd
• Example proposal here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jbryer/CRJ504Fall2018/blob/master/Project/Example_proposal.html
• For next week (October 29):
  • Decide if you work alone or in a group; have the group identified.
  • Identify the dataset you will use for the project.
  • Project proposal will be due November 5th.
• You will present your results on December 3rd or 10th. Presentations should be no more than 10 minutes.

Data Sources

You are not to use data sources used in class or the textbooks. Possible data sources include, but are not limited to:

• FiveThirtyEight https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data
• RStudio data sources http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/07/23/new-data-packages/
• Analyze Survey Data for Free (ASDFree) has many open data sources that can be used http://www.asdfree.com/
• The World Bank Data Catalog http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
• Google Public Data search engine http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
• Vanderbilt data sources http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/DataSets
• Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) http://www.oecd.org/pisa/
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
• World Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp
• American National Election Survey (ANES) http://www.electionstudies.org/
• General Social Survey (GSS) http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
• U.S. Census and American Community Survey https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/index.html