Deliverable 1: Final Project Data Selection

This will be the first of four deliverables centered around the development of your final project.

N.B. Please choose your data carefully as you will be using it to complete all the course related deliverables culminating in the final project report and presentation.

Deliverable 1: Use a source or multiple sources of your choice or one of the data repositories or sources which were discussed in this class to obtain data which you will be mining for your final project. The deliverable should be no more than 1000 words.

Describe your data: Write a paragraph or create a table describing your data source, one should consider the following:

1- When was the data collected?

2- Who collected the data?

3- For what purposes was the data initially collected?

4- What is the context and content of the data, what dimensions/attributes does it describe? (Is it spatial data, we log data, transaction data, survey data or health data...)?

5- How big is your data, number of rows and columns?

6- Discuss the quality of your data, how complete is it? Are there any known sources of errors or biases?

Deliverable 1, Data Selection Evaluation Rubric