Project Proposal (10 points)

Generate a research project topic using a computational social science research design

Elements of a project proposal

Clearly state a research question
- Maybe give a few citations (not a full literature review)
- Give a little information about why it is interesting
- Give a little information about what your contribution will be
Describe how you will answer that question
- What data will you use?
  - Give a good figure/plot/table
- What theory will you use to interpret the data?
- What analyses and computational tools will you use?

You should prepare a 5 minute quasi-Ignite-style presentation using slides
- Exactly 10 slides, auto-advancing every 30 seconds
- Use any software you want to generate the slides as long as you include a PDF version
Push your slides to your project repository on GitHub in the Proposal folder no later than 11:59pm, Tuesday, April 3

State your research question clearly
- Usually a narrower scope is better
- Title should refer to a question
Make sure to use a computationally-enhanced research design
- This could involve computational elements for data collection or statistical learning methods
- This could involve running a digital survey or experiment or simulation
- What you should not prepare - a basic OLS/logistic regression model reevaluating a commonly used observational data set. Do something more challenging!
Make sure you can get the data
Manage your time during the presentation
Don't spend too much time on the literature
Answer questions but don't get derailed