Question $3$ Project $(45$ marks$)$

Place all your coding work for this question in the lab notebook template and your project report in

the TMA word processing template.

In answering this question, you will benefit from the experience you gained in the previous question.

In this question, you will formulate your own research question OR hypothesis and investigate it and

write a report of your findings in your Solution document. The research question OR hypothesis

should be related to investigating the relationships between a selected independent variable and a

selected dependent variable. You can also investigate the differences between two or more groups

with respect to a variable.

Your investigation must include the use of a proper measure of correlation$/$other suitable measures

to show the relationships$/$ differences between your selected variables and appropriate visualizations.

Visualizations can be provided either by utilizing folium or matplotlib.

For example, you may wish to investigate the relationship between

$$ Frequency of alcohol intake and obesity level

$$ Mode of transportation and obesity level

$$ Intake of high calorie food and obesity level

$$ Frequency of physical activity and obesity level

The above given relationships are just samples, there are many other relationships that you can

investigate.

Study the data sets, analyze it$,$ and then prepare a research document according to the following

report structure:

$1.$ Executive summary

$$ A summary of your project $(2$ marks$)$

$2.$ Aims and objectives

$$ A brief description about the general aims of your project $(1$ mark$)$

$$ and more detailed objectives to achieve those aims $(2$ marks$)$

$3.$ The Research Question$/$ Hypothesis

$$ State your research question$/$Hypothesis by:

i$.$ identifying the independent variables $(2$ marks$),$ and

ii$.$ the dependent variables you wish to investigate $(2$ marks$).$

$4.$ Analysis and Findings

$$ Produce convincing correlations demonstrating a statistically significant correlation

among your chosen independent and dependent variables. You must choose an

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appropriate statistical method for the types of measure in the variables in your study.

$(4$ marks$).$

$$ Give your critical interpretation and conclusions about those observed correlations.

$(2$ marks$)$

$$ Produce tabular summaries of the data in the form of crosstabs or pivot tables $(4$

marks$),$ along with your critical interpretation of those tables $(2$ marks$).$

$$ At least two relevant visualizations $(6$ marks$)$ along with your critical interpretations

of each visualization $(2$ marks$).$

$$ Your final answer to the research question$/$ hypothesis you posed $(2$ mark$)$

$$ and critical comment on your conclusions. $(2$ mark$)$

$5.$ Reflection

$$ Reflect on:

i$.$ your experience with the project $(2$ mark$),$

ii$.$ what you learned $(1$ mark$),$

iii. what you went well $(1$ mark$),$

iv$.$ what went wrong $(1$ mark$)$

v$.$ and how can you benefit from this experience in future projects $(1$ mark$)$

$6.$ References

$$ At least $6$ references. All references must be in the Harvard style of referencing and

must be accompanied by proper citations in the text. $(6$ marks$)$