OVERVIEW

What better way to internalize key statistical concepts than to actually use them with your own data?!

For this project contribution you will define, collect, organize, visualize, and analyze a single set of data using the concepts and skills learned in this course. (This will be an application of the DCOVA framework.)

A contribution to the project portfolio will be required for each module. An example project piece demonstrating the requirements for these contributions for each module are explained in each module. In this first module, you will collect some data of your choice and begin organizing and analyzing that data.

INSTRUCTIONS

This project is scaffolded; in other words, you will build your project piece-by-piece throughout the semester, from module to module. The Module 5 project contribution will be your project, fully complete in it's final form.

For Module 1, you will accomplish the following tasks.

1. Come up with a single (one) question or problem that you are interested in (at least for the purposes of this project). Recent questions that projects have been built on were: How much money did you spend on groceries last month? How many pairs of shoes do you own? How many pets have you owned in your lifetime? etc, etc.
2. Collect 30 data points needed for this project from 30 answers to your one question.
   1. This data needs to be of a quantitative variable (numbers).
   2. You do NOT need to make this a big deal. Just talk to 30 co-workers or 30 customers at work (with your supervisors permission if needed), solicit 30 responses from Facebook friends, research data on the internet, etc.