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?

2-3 pages double-spaced
Push your proposal to your project repository on GitHub in the Proposal folder no later than 11:59pm, Wednesday, April 10

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