Project 1 Final Deliverable
For this project, you and your group will collaborate to produce a stylized, publication-ready report. The report will include an exploratory data analysis complete with styled visualizations and polished tables which address at least two research questions posed by your group.
Along the way you will learn how to:
- write data summary functions,
- iterate over those functions,
- acquire data from APIs and webscraping, and
- create professionally styled visualizations and tables.
Final Deliverable
The final report you create must have the following elements.
Data Acquisition
- describes the context of the original data
- acquire new country-level data using APIs and webscraping
- joins new data with original data
Research Questions
- addresses at least two research questions using the original data
- addresses at least one research question using the new (country-level) data
Data Summaries & Visualizations
- at least three data summaries which address the research questions posed
- at least one of these summaries need to be produced with a custom function.
- at least one of these summaries need to include iteration (either inside or outside of a function).
- creates professionally formatted summary tables (for all data summaries)
- every table must have formatted values (e.g., decimals, percentages, currencies), boldface headers, and captions, and
- at least one table must incorporate additional styling (e.g., color, row group labels, spanner labels)
- creates two professionally formatted visualizations
- every visualization must have alternative (alt) text, non-default colors, a non-default theme, and clear labels
- at least one visualization must use a more complex geometry (e.g.,
geom_segment(),geom_density_ridge()geom_ribbon(),geom_tile(),geom_hex())
Data Model
- fits one statistical model addressing one of the research questions posed
- professionally formats the output of that model to communicate the results (must satisfy requirements for professionally formatted tables)
Quarto Document
- uses a non-default theme
- uses headers and subheaders to delineate the sections
- uses table and figure numbers to reference findings
The colors from the document theme you chose should match the colors in your plots and tables!
Peer Review
In Week 4 your group will give (and receive) feedback to another group as it relates to the layout of the report and the visualizations / tables included in the report.
Submission
Your final submission varies based on the course in which you are enrolled. Please see below for the expectations for your course.
STAT 431
For your final submission, your group will submit one GitHub repository link and one HTML document. This means, you will need to choose which group member’s repository will be submitted as the final version.
STAT 541
For your final submission, your group will submit one GitHub repository link and one link to the published HTML document. This means, you will need to choose which group member’s repository will be submitted as the final version.
To publish your document, you will need to sign up for a free Connect Cloud account. I would recommend signing up with your GitHub account, since the documents you will be publishing for Project 1 and Project 2 live in a GitHub repository!
Once you’ve signed up, you need to follow these steps to publish your document:
- Click on the “Publish” button on the left sidebar
- Select the “From GitHub” tab
- Select “Quarto” as the framework
- Input the URL of your GitHub repository
- The branch you want to push from should be “main”
- Input the name of the HTML document you want to publish (e.g.,
project-1.html) - Select “Publish” to publish your document!
I would recommend toggling on the “Automatically publish on push” option, so your document will automatically update when you push changes to your GitHub repository.