Submit a brief project proposal (1 page) to the 'Term Project: Preliminary Proposal' discussion forum. This week, you should start to obtain the data you will need for your project. The proposal must identify at least two (preferably more) likely data sources for the project work, since this will be critical to success in the final project. Over the next few weeks, you will be refining your proposal. Next week you will submit a first revision of your project proposal based on feedback from me and your continued work in developing your project. During week 5, you will receive feedback from other students. This will help you revise a more complete (final) proposal which will be due in Week 6. For a quick reminder, view Overview of term project and weekly deliverables [1]
This week, you must organize your thinking about the term project by developing your topic/scope from last week into a short proposal.
Your proposal should include:
I realize, at this point, that you may feel that your knowledge is too limited for the last point in particular (Analysis). Skim through the lessons from the course web site [2] where the page you are reading now is hosted using the menu at the right-hand side and visit the syllabus where there is an overview of each lesson and the methods you will be learning.
The proposal does not have to be detailed at this stage. Your proposal should be no longer than about 1 page (max.). Make sure that your proposal covers all the above points, so that I (Lesson 3 & 4) and others (Lesson 5 – peer review) evaluating the proposal can make constructive suggestions about additions, changes, other sources of data, and so on.
Post your preliminary proposal to the 'Term Project: Preliminary Proposal' discussion forum.
Please use the Discussion - General Questions and Technical Help discussion forum to ask any questions now or at any point during this project.