ECO 230: Business and Economics Communication and Research

Practice Exams

Practice Exam 1
R Output for Practice Exam 1

Practice Exam 2
R Output for Practice Exam 2

Final Projects

Financial Behaviors

Dataset: findata.RData

Documentation:
Code book
Survey

YMCA

Data: gymdata.RData
Survey: Gym Demand Survey

Grand Bluff Race Management

Data: grandaddata.RData
Survey: Half Marathon Survey

Presentations

Live Client Presentations

Client Presentation Expectations and Schedule

Narrated PowerPoint

Use your same PowerPoint presentation that you give live to your client
Optional: You may edit the PowerPoint slides if you see fit
Record audio for every slide
Export as video
Due Wednesday, December 20 at 5:00PM

Final Report

First draft due Friday, December 8 at 11:59PM
Final draft due Wednesday, December 20 at 5:00PM
Final Report Description and Rubric

Scaffolding Assignments

Mini Presentation (1-2 Minutes)

In-class on Thursday, December 7
I will pick one member of your group at random
Have one or two slides prepared with results (table or plot)
Describe your finding

Data Exploration Group Assignment due Wednesday, November 29 at 11:59PM

Stastical Modeling HunkeR: Hands on out-of-class help on using R for your research projects.
Monday, November 27, 5:30PM - 7:30PM

Module 7: Survey Design and Implementation

Class Notes

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Reading

Errors in survey research: Zikmund, Ch 9, pp. 184-193
Questionnaire design: Zikmund, Ch 15, pp. 333-349

Exercises

In-Class Exercise

Questionnaire Due Tue Nov 21
(final project groups)

Module 6: Ethical Considerations in Research

Class Notes

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Reading

Zikmund, Ch 5, pp. 89-93

Exercises

NIH Tutorial on Protecting Human Research Participants
Due Tuesday, November 7

Module 5: Proposing New Research

Class Notes

Research Process:
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Research Proposal:
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Reading

Zikmund, Ch 6, pp. 106-118

Exercises

Research Proposal: Pick One
RFP: Tourism
RFP: Training Programs
Expectations / Grading Rubric
Group Assignment Due Fri Nov 3

Peer Observation Guide
Due before class Thurs Nov 9

Final Draft due Tue Nov 14

Module 4: Bivariate Relationships

Class Notes

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R tutorials:

Reading

Zikmund, Ch 22, pp. 531-533 -skim over math-

Ch 23, pp. 561-566 -skim over math-

Exercises

Module 3: Data Visualization

Class Notes

Best Practices

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R tutorials:

Reading

R for Data Science
by Hadley Wickham and
Garrett Grolemund
Chapter 3
Zikmund, Ch 25, 622-628.

Exercises

Group Homework Assignment

Literature Review
Due Mon Oct 23 11:59PM

PowerPoint Video Presentation
Due Fri Oct 27 11:59PM

Module 2: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics

Class Notes

R tutorials:

Reading

Zikmund et al., Ch 22, pp. 534-547
-skim over math-

Exercises

Homework: Introductory Stats
Data set: facebook.RData
Due Tue, Sept 26, to D2L Dropbox

Module 1: Introduction to Data

Statistics Tutorial

Introduction to Data

Reading

Scale of measurement:
Zikmund, Ch 13, 293-298

Datacamp Tutorials

Factors: Due Fri Sept 8
Data frames: Due Sat Sept 9
Language of data: Due Sun Sept 10

https://www.datacamp.com

R Resources

Installing R

Rstudio is a great Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This is the graphical user interface that you use to interact with R, which is actually a separate software package than the R computing package.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. You can learn more about it and when you are ready, download R to install to your Windows, Linux, or Mac computer.