After ideas for a research question that needs to use public available data sets.
My imagination is poor, so wondering if any oz bargainers have any ideas.
any topic is OK.
thanks
Research question ideas that need to use public available datasets
Donaldhump on 24/07/2018 - 09:59
Last edited 24/07/2018 - 10:33
Last edited 24/07/2018 - 10:33
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what do you mean by context, it can be on anything
Wait, literally anything? No subject matter limitations at all?
no
@unclesnake: Then I'd work backwards - find the best quality data-set you can, and base your topic around that. Far better than doing a tonne of work thinking of the subject and planning an analyses, only to find out you can't get the data.
Have a look here: http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/
I'm an (amateur - don't work in the field) econ guy. Property is always a big topic (though you might rub your teacher/lecturer the wrong way), and the ABS has tonnes of residential property data there. As an example:
"How much is population as a factor in long-term property price trends?"
Then looking at geographical population data and property price data, you can plot the two against each other and test for correlation. You can further it break it down by demographics (working age population vs total population, for example) to expand on the base question.
If you don't get a strong, or any, correlation, you can then test other potential factors as a tangent - GDP (of the city/state), income and earnings trends (as opposed to population), etc.
@HighAndDry: thats exactly the approach i am taking, i just have no imagination of making a question.
thanks for ideas
Looking at GovHack?
Your problem is more likely getting good public data.
You can explore datasets on these for some inspiration:
https://data.world/
https://www.kaggle.com
https://aurin.org.au/Disclaimer: I am doing research using AURIN data, and use data.world to run SPARKQL queries.
Context?
Also, capitalization… and punctuation in general.