Final Research Report

Lime cat sez use your brain. 

What do you need to create for the final research report?   The description of the assignment is  here:
Read these instructions:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kQQHDh6uhIuaoWl_LWCDaAYobMGSRriBFiFUT8YYQG8/edit
USE THIS DATA: http://db.tt/JjeomqVk

Create your document and share it with Ted Now:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dC00N0padE03NTZGM3FROWlfc2ZRbkE6MQ

See newly added examples on using excel here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bsW0w9XxYwpiHOxDz-5b6c9CNPdXeHK0BOOg5_L8Ibw/edit


But here are the instructions in a nutshell:

1. Use the data we collected to describe patterns in the variables we collected. 
1. use your brain to find interesting things to look at
2. Here is the link to the final data set.   please download it and save a version of your own on your computer, or to your USB drive, or to Dropbox-- wherever you prefer to store your important files: USE THIS DATA: http://db.tt/JjeomqVk
2. look for patterns in how some variables are related to others. 
1. Use your brain to come up with interesting variables
2. Display the results in interesting ways
3. Then right up what you found in a summary with the same general format as the abstract assignment. 
1. The details of what to include are in the link above
4. The dataset is NOW ready.  
1. The first step is to create some basic descriptive statistics, and create some new variables that might be interesting. 
2. Next step would be to make some graphs that would be potentially informative.
5. This is an exploratory study--  you need to do some exploring.  Not all of your explorations will end up being noteworthy.  
1. I will start adding examples of things you can create in excel.   I will start with how to make transformed versions of your variables.
6. The phrase "use your brain"  is a joking way to emphasize that there are many hard parts of doing research-- but one of the most difficult is figuring out how to learn something interesting from the data. This takes effort, and is hard to teach, but is demonstrated in the research that we read for HW2.