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Project proposal
This planning document will also form the introduction of your argument.
Nelson Mason - Date: 10/29/2025
Overarching Question
What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5 sentences to describe why you are interested in it.
I want to know about what relationship exists, if any, between an adult (18 +) person's age and their weight (I'll use metric). I'm trying to find out at what age, on average, do people experience a dramatic weight gain or loss, if at all? I'm curious to find out if such a dramatic increase or decrease in weight can be captured in a one-time snapshot database, where individuals are NOT tracked over a period of time, but ONLY once.
What specific research questions will you investigate?
List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable using your data set. What number or percentage can be used to accurately indicate a dramatic change in weight by age? How do I determine what "dramatic" is?
Data source
What data set will you use to answer your overarching question?
Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.
Where is this data from?
Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.
What is this data about?
Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows and some of the columns which will be important to you.
Methods
How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).