Programming Homework Help

ADD: Background Information (2 PARAGRAPHS)

• What work has been done on racial disparities in state prisons?
• Do a brief literature review to contextualize your question. Cite appropriately!

ADD: How does input and output variables relate? (2 PARAGRAPHS)

ADD: Data Collecting Tools – Where? How? (WRITE AS MUCH AS YOU NEED TO ANSWR THE QUESTION)

Data collection tools is the MOST important part. You need to operationalize this concept into quantifiable and analyzable data; find and acquire the data; prepare the data for analysis, including integrating disparate data sources; and identify potential pitfalls. You need a relational database to store your data and manipulate it to create a dataset.

• Details on how you will organize sources of data
• Examples of how you used data acquisition and management tools
• If you’re using surveys, please provide an example survey and your survey strategy. If you’re using pre-made datasets, look around to see what’s out there and tell me what your dataset will look like and what vars you’re pulling from where.
• How would you use the tools listed below? You will need a relational database to store your data and manipulate it to create a dataset.

You must incorporate one or more of the skills listed below to collect and prepare needed data:

• simple download of existing datasets to web scraping and parsing, insert these successfully into a PostgreSQL database
• using pre analysis methods built into SQL to check your expectations and build variables
• implement data integration by creating new typologies represented in coding categories
• Data acquisition – scraping, parsing, and programmatic data updates
• Basic Python skills, coupled with regular expressions and the urllib and psycopg2 modules, to build a scraper to get data from the web (used for data that are not available as a downloadable dataset), to parse those data after you acquire them, and to insert and update the data into a database

USE AT LEAST 4 OF THESE:

• Surveys
• Inner Joint Charts
• Polls
• Questionnaires
• Pre-made Datasets
• Tables

ADD: Why This Work Matters: (2 PARAGRAPHS)

ADD: How answering my research question can lead to change: (2 PARAGRAPHS)

CITE ALL SOURCES! (MLA FORMAT)

See attached for outline.