Projects

Project prompts for Stat041 live here

Prompts

Project 1: Graph Glow Up (and down)

Project 2: Fitting a Model

Project 3: Explaining a Concept

Final Project Checklist and Resources

Where to look for datasets:

Collections of datasets on many different topics:

FiveThirtyEight + Associated R Package (See available data here).
HelpMeViz
DataIsPlural
TidyTuesday
Urban Institute’s Data Catalog

Specific datasets that may be interesting:

COVID 19 and policing
St. Louis Lead Levels
Stanford Open Policing Project
Redlining and Environmental Justice in California
Supreme Court Cases
Chicago Criminal Justice Data Collaborative or Cook County Prosecutor’s Office Data
Education Data Explorer
National Longitudinal Survey of youth (data on race, education, and salary)

…. I’ll continue to add more as we go.