National Financial Capability Study
Codebook  Survey

More information:
usfinancialcapability.org

La Crosse County Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Codebook  Survey

More information:
cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs

National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Codebook  Survey

More information:
cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs

Annotated Bibliography
Due Mon Nov 12 11:59 PM

Research Proposal
Proposal Guidelines
Proposal Rubric

Requests for Proposals
RFP: Financial Behaviors
RFP: Children Health

Proposal Due
Fri Nov 16 11:59 PM

Final Presentation Expectations and Rubric

Practice Presentations
Tuesday, December 4
Five-Minute Group Presentations
Preliminary / Incomplete Work OK!
Business/Community Leader Coaches
Guidelines for Coaches

Final Presentations
Tuesday, December 11
Friday, December 14 (12:40p sec)
Monday, December 17 (2:15p sec)

Final Report Expectations and Rubric
Past Student Example

First draft due
Tues Dec 4, 11:59 PM

Final report due
Wed, Dec 19, 11:59 PM

Slides, Printer-Friendly

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

Example Surveys
Bike Survey (Needs a lot of work)
YMCA (Stronger)
Memorial Pool (Even Stronger)

Slides, Printer-Friendly

Slides, Printer-Friendly

Zikmund, Ch 5, pp. 89-93

Weapons of Math Destruction

Ghostbusters!

Data Visualization with GGPlot2 is due Monday, October 15, 11:59 PM!Expected Completion Time is 4-5 hours

Join RStudio ECO 230 Space

Homework Assignment
Financial Behaviors
OR..
Youth Risk Behaviors
Due Fri Oct 26 11:59 PM

Introduction to Data

Free Online Book: R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 4: Workflow: Basics
• Chapter 5: Data Transformation

https://www.datacamp.com

Cloud software: Rstudio.cloud

National Financial Capability Study
Dataset: findata.xlsx
Codebook  Survey

More information:
usfinancialcapability.org

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Dataset: yrbs.xlsx
Codebook  Survey

More information:
cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs

Presentation Tue Sept 24!
One slide with one graphic
Length: 60-90 seconds
Tell a story
(Individual presentations /
work together)
Easy A

Short Report
Write a two-page report following this template, ReportTemplate.docx
Convert to PDF (like this!)
(Individual reports, but work together)
Due Fri, Oct 5, 11:59 PM

Example Reports
U.S. Trade
Household Debt

Slides
Printer Friendly

Getting Started With Tableau
Focus on Steps 1, 2, some of 3, some of 4.

Don't read your book on this topic. It is really bad.

Homework: Marketing Metrics
Assignment description
Dataset description
Dataset: facebook.xlsx
Due Mon Sept 17 11:59 PM CDT
Upload to Canvas

In-class dataset: zillow.xlsx
Completed spreadsheet:
    zillow-plots.xlsx

Slides
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Keeping Up with the Quants
Davenport and Kim (2013)
Chapter 1
Posted in Canvas

Zikmund et al. (Textbook)
Chapter 13, pp. 293-298

Merging Data in Excel
Creating Pivot Tables in Excel

Datacamp Tutorial
Join ECO 230 Datacamp Course
Datacamp course:
    Data Analysis with Spreadsheets
Due Mon Sept 10 11:59 PM

In-class dataset: county-rent.xlsx
Completed spreadsheet:
    county-rent-finished.xlsx