Web Exercises
- Using the site: https://www.data.gov/data-policy, discuss how you would go about selecting a topic of interest and using data to test for causality. How would this differ from looking at correlations between variables?
- Review the following site for what trends are important in modern public sector workplaces: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/. Afterward, discuss how you may go about studying what causes employees to be motivated. What factors in particular would you want to examine that tend to affect employee success / decisions in the workplace?
- After exploring the crime statistics website provided at: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats/, discuss what factors may cause increases or decreases in crime rates. How would you specifically go about studying these trends?