DAT520 Milestone One Project

June 25, 2020

Data Mining for the Masses Project Proposal

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For your DAT520 Milestone One project, choose a data set from the curated list of sources (Final Project Topics and Sources.xls), or you may submit your proposal for a different data source than these listed. Refer to the Final Project Notes document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics folder for further guidance on this milestone.

Your submission should include all of the following:

A research question that is relevant to the decision analysis techniques you will employ.
A data set choice that is complementary to the research question.
An explanation of the data set, why it was chosen, and what its relationship is to the research question.

Guidelines for Submission:

Submit 1 to 2 pages of writing explaining your intended research question. The document should be double spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. Your submission should include your selected data set and explanation for choosing it and your research question and explanation for choosing it.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Research	Research question has the qualities of being	Research question needs some rework to	No research question is provided, or is not	30
Question	appropriate for decision analysis techniques	become appropriate for decision analysis	viable for decision analysis
Data Set Choice	Research question and chosen data set(s) are	Research question and data set(s) are	Data set(s) and research question are not	30
	complementary	partially complementary	appropriate for each other
Explanation	Characterizes the chosen data set(s), source,	Limited characterization of the data and	No characterization of the data and sources	30
	and how it relates to the research question.	sources	was provided
Articulation of	Submission has no major errors related to	Submission has major errors related to	Submission has critical errors related to	10
Response	grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
		that negatively impact readability and	that prevent understanding of ideas
		articulation of main ideas
			Earned Total	100%

DAT 520 Final Project Topics and Sources

Domain	Topic	Research Question
Firefighting	Wildfires	What is the human-caused ignition source that presents the largest potential loss of acreage for CAL FIRE annually?
Healthcare	Health programs	Which of these programs will be most valuable to implement first? (Diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and hypertension.) Corollary to that is the development sequence for which program will be built next until all five programs are completed.
Education	AP tests	If a student is only going to take one AP math or science course while in high school, which one should he or she take?
Real Estate	Real estate	Is it worth the investment to hire a bicoastal real estate company to assist in expanding the investor’s real estate collection?
Sports	Football	What in-game activity is required to win in the National Football League?
Education	Education funding	Do states whose public schools achieve certain interquartile performance levels, as defined by combined fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math scores, exhibit any common traits in per-pupil expenditures in the categories of instructor wages, instructor benefits, pupil support, instructional staff support, general administration, and school administration expense?
Finance	Failed banks	Can we say which geographic region will have the greatest chance of experiencing the most bank failures in the future?
Education	Student performance	How does the level of faculty effectiveness affect student performance in reading and mathematics, and can this be used to help a particular school focus on the faculty members teaching a particular subject?
Elections	Predicting elections	Can demographic changes in population be utilized in lieu of polling for the purpose of predictive electoral analysis?
Sports	Baseball	Are winning teams built based on pitching or hitting?
Social Services	The homeless	Based on the data, which subpopulation (chronically homeless individuals/families, chronic substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, severely mentally ill, veterans, and/or victims of domestic violence) should be targeted to provide more services in Louisiana?
Education	Student loans	What type of schools have undergraduate students that need to borrow the most amount of subsidized and unsubsidized loans?
Real Estate	Home values	How do certain modifications affect home valuation?
Foster care	At-risk youth	Which high-risk foster care youth category is most amenable to an intervention strategy?
Education/Health	Childhood obesity	To which state or pair of states should money for childhood obesity interventions go?
Healthcare finance	Reimbursements	How to determine if it would be possible to function solely on Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement or if they need to contract with private payers that are prevalent in the area.
Housing	Construction spending	Which four construction projects will boost the economy and whether the relative standard error for total construction is less than 3% because anything higher would cause a loss. The four construction categories are residential, non-residential commercial, educational, and healthcare.
Education	Parental involvement	Are parents’ education level and their involvement in their child’s education good predictors for a student’s success in school?

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