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+# Project Proposal (10 points)
+
+**Produce a research question and proposal for your term project using a computational social science research design**
+
+
+## Elements of a project proposal
+
+1. Clearly state a research question
+ * Maybe give a few citations (not a full literature review)
+ * Give a little information about why it is interesting
+ * Give a little information about what your contribution will be
+2. Describe how you will answer that question
+ * What data will you use?
+ * Maybe give a preliminary figure/plot/table
+ * What theory will you use to interpret the data?
+ * What analyses and computational tools will you use?
+3. What do you think your answer might be?
+ * What are the potential channels and alternatives?
+
+
+## Proposal format
+
+1. You should prepare a [5 minute quasi-Ignite-style presentation](http:https://www.ignitetalks.io/) using slides
+ * Exactly **10 slides, auto-advancing every 30 seconds**
+ * Use any software you want to generate the slides **as long as you include a PDF version**
+ * Here is a [LaTeX slides template](https://github.com/UC-MACSS/persp-research-econ_Spr19/blob/master/templates/LaTeXslides_template.tex) you can use if you wish.
+2. Push your slides to your project repository on your GitHub fork in the `Proposal` folder no later than 11:59pm, Tuesday, April 9.
+3. You will present your proposal with slides in class on Wednesday, April 10.
+
+
+## Things to watch out for
+
+* State your research question clearly
+ * Usually a narrower scope is better
+ * Title should refer to a question
+* Make sure to use a computationally-enhanced research design
+ * This could involve computational elements for data collection or statistical learning methods
+ * This could involve running a digital survey or experiment or simulation
+ * What you should not prepare - a basic OLS/logistic regression model reevaluating a commonly used observational data set. Do something more computationally cutting edge.
+* **Make sure you can get the data**
+* If you have a title slide, know that we will spend 30 seconds there
+* Manage your time during the presentation
+* Don't spend too much time on the literature
+* Answer questions but don't get derailed
+
+
+## How to come up with a good project
+
+* What topic areas are you interested in?
+ * Read the most current articles.
+* Extend one of those papers in a small way.
+ * New data
+ * New population
+ * Question about different part of the data
+ * New/better methods
+* Talk to faculty.