Answer a question with public data The Counting Room
Pick a question and a public dataset, then write a 600-word brief with three numbers, a method note and a notebook link. Two students work out your headline number from the same source.
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- In detail
- Own question on public-domain or openly licensed data: a 600-word brief with three numbers, a method note, stated limits and a notebook link at a fixed revision
- What you leave with
- Piece page
- Who confirms it
- Two students at other colleges worked out the headline number themselves from the source. Tillyard compared their figures with yours.
- What goes on your résumé
- Projects: Analysed 2019 to 2024 IPEDS transfer rates at Ohio public universities; headline figure re-derived from the source by two students at other colleges
An example. Yours will say what you did.
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You own what you make here. If you made it for a class, a lab or an employer, someone else may have a claim on it, so leave it out. You do this unpaid and by choice, and you do not work for Tillyard. You are keeping a record of something you chose to do.