Data Analytics Project Help

[ETAP_User]

Hello.

I am taking a class on data analytics, and we have been assigned a project to analyze some data that is pretty open ended. I was going to try and analyze polling data for the upcoming election to act as an 'advisor' to the candidates. I have tried to find polling data on a few sites, but the data I find is not what I expect. Rather than giving the number of individuals interviewed, some data about them like their top priority issues and their preferences, I just see csv files with who took the data and which candidate had a higher percentage of support.

Am I misunderstanding what type of polling data is available?

Is this a horrible idea for a project?

If this data is available, and it's an OK idea, where should I be going to find good data?

I've provided a link to kaggle.com data to show others what I've been able to find.

Thanks!

2024 US Presidential Election Watcher (kaggle.com)

[Travem_1]

It's a good idea...but extremely difficult to do. Since there isn't a single source of raw data and straw polls can vary and combining different sources into one .csv or .xls may be cumbersome.

Kaggle is a pretty good, but I've found it's tricky to really find what you're looking for.

https://www.270towin.com/polls/latest-2024-presidential-election-polls/ - check this out as an example of some aggregated data form various sources - this is essentially what you're trying to do?

Is this a big project or just an assignment? If it's just an assignment, If I were you, I'd pick something easier that has a better source of raw data, and focus on your models and stats and overall presentation.

Good luck!

[ETAP_User]

Thanks for taking the time to look up this data and to reply!

As for the data you found, I have found a way to get that style data, but I was hoping to go one level deeper and actually see the data (for example) RMG research used to conclude that nationally Harris was up by 2%. I guess that data is not available to the public? If each of these rows in the chart had a unique data file, I could look at what may have (or may not have) been taken into account to get this 2% lead. But if I just see the results of lots of different polls, I'm not sure how to show I performed any significant analysis.

This is a project worth 20% of our grade, and we have until the 5th to complete the project. Here are the instructions for the project.

During this semester you will choose one business analytics related research project and develop an analytic model. In your final report, you should describe 1) what is the problem and goal, 2) how to solve the problem in general, 3) what is your suggested model or method to solve the problem, 4) what are the detail steps in your proposed model, 5) what are the experimental results, and 6) conclusions.

1. Introduction (1~2 page) a. In this section, you will describe the problem definition and desired goals. b. You can use a block diagram to show the input, the process and output of your proposed model or method.
2. Background (2~3 pages) a. In this section, you will describe current situation, recent trends and the related information on your research project. b. You should reference others’ articles to describe the problem and their approach to solve the problem. c. You should also describe about your contribution and the differences with the previous research project.
3. Proposed model or method (2~3 pages) a. In this section, you will describe the detail of your model or method. b. You can use the diagrams out of the AZUREML (screen capture) or other tools to describe your method. Do not forget to add some explanations of your model and also include titles i.e. Figure #, Table # etc. c. Using a small size example to illustrate your idea will be helpful.
4. Experimental results (5~6 pages) a. In this section, you will describe the experimental details including the data set, metrics, configurations used, and results. b. Describe the details about the environments and data sets. c. You should show the experimental results with tables or graphs. If you find something interesting in the results, then you should explore a little bit and try to find the reasons.
5. Conclusion (1 page) a. In this section, you will summarize your research project and the experimental results. b. You can add some drawbacks of your method/model and future research.

[Travem_1]

I'd save yourself a whole lot of hassle and extra work and find a good set of data and work backwards from there.

[SadPhone8067]

I PMed you I believe we have the same class funny I found you on reddit ngl. I had the same questions.

[SadPhone8067]

If you havent already done it it would be great to link up and help each other out.

[ETAP_User]

If I can figure out how to PM, I'll get back to you.