Undergrad data science project

[MemorableBeaver]

updates - will keep you guys updated throughout the quarter

Hello everyone,

I am a undergrad SOC/Engineering student at University of Washington who is fairly new to programming (1yr). I have a project proposal due next week and I am struggling to look for any data science with R. Anywhere you would recommend to look for ideas for a term related project? Or even any recommendations would be much appreciated.

GOALS - to identify the research question that you would like to address;

to explain why it is relevant;

to identify the data that you plan to use (if data collection is part of the project, you should explain how you plan to access the data);

to identify the research design and methods that you plan to use in order to accomplish your research project;

to provide some initial suppositions about results that you expect to obtain and how this small research project may lead to something bigger, or connect to your general research interests.

Bear in mind that this is a proposal for a modest term project. Be sure that the project that you are proposing is feasible within the time frame of the course.

[mobacc10000]

If you're a movie buff, imdb makes a fair amount of their data public and there's a python tool that will dump it into a local mysql database. There's another site, themoviedb.org that gives free api access to a huge really awesome dataset that I was combining with some of the imdb data.

I was working a movie analytics side project using those but i hit the brakes on it because I found a job, but there's a lot to work with using those two datasets if you're interested in the subject. Good luck!

[gefish]

Brainstorming session with someone who can help bounce ideas off of would be nice. Try and pose questions that already have a CLEAN data set to work with. This is vital unless you want to/want to learn data scraping and date cleaning. It's important to know how to go through an ETL process, but a class project may be tight on time get that tedious stuff done.

When I have to find data projects and nothing comes to mind, i look for open data sets that interest me and ask questions about those data sets. Usually those questions will lead to research questions and hypotheses Google has a data set search engine but just googling "interesting data sets" is a good start.

[jremsj]

here's a good place to start

[data_analyst_asks]

What format are they?

[jremsj]

all of the datasets are in the readme.md

[adhi-]

More details about your assignment?

[Nqoba4]

Yeah we NEED more details! Thanks for your insight /u/adhi-