DAT520 Milestone One Project

June 25, 2020

Last updated on October 3rd, 2023 at 02:11 pm

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.

DAT520 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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