Final Project

Overview

Due:: 11:00pm, Wednesday December 9, 2020
Max grace days:: 0

Description

The goal of this assignment is to find a topic that interests you and find data related to the topic. You are to present some interesting aspect of the data using descriptive text and data visualizations. The following specifications should be considered for this assignment:

The main file should be an IPython notebook named main.ipynb
The source of dataset(s) should be cited.
The dataset(s) should be included with the submission (if possible).

The following are some general guidelines for the data investigation:

Choose and describe data that includes at least two separate tables (in two separate files) with both quantitative and categorical data.
Visualize some quantitative variable(s) of the data in a way that summarizes the data effectively and write a short observational description.
Visualize some categorical variable(s) of the data in a way that summarizes the data effectively and write a short observational description.
Summarize some aspect of the data in a table that involves grouping or pivoting and write a short observational description.
Summarize some aspect of the data in a table that involves joining the two tables and write a short observational description.
Describe the dataset(s) in an introductory section.
Write a section at the end with concluding remarks.

All descriptions must be in Markdown cells. You will be penalized for an inappropriate semantic structure to the document.

Note that you can deviate from these guidelines depending on nature of your data investigation. Any deviation from the guidelines must be approved by me before your project submission.

For this project, you can earn up to a 5% bonus towards your final course grade by exceeding the basic criteria listed above. The bonus points will be awarded at my discretion depending on the quality of the enhancements. If you choose to implement additional features, add a file named README.txt to your submission containing the details of the additional features.

Turning in the Assignment

You must turn in a file named main.ipynb. Submit the program source file to and any additional files that are needed to execute your final project code to the appropriate folder on D2L Failure to add any required files will result in a failing grade for the final project.