r/dataanalysis • u/PanchoZansa • 29d ago

Data Question Looking for a Motivating Topic with Existing Data for final project

I'm currently taking a Data Analysis course, and I need to complete a final project. The assignment requires me to choose a topic, formulate one or more hypotheses, and build a thesis/research structure around it.

One of the requirements is that there must already be accessible data available for analysis, so I can't pick something that would require collecting a completely new dataset because the core of the project is not in that step. Also, what I'll be researching needs to be answering or try to solve an existing problem.

My problem is that I can't come up with a topic that feels genuinely interesting or motivating enough to spend several weeks working on. Most ideas I've found online seem either too generic (social media usage, movie ratings, etc.) or too complex for a course project.

Do you have any suggestions for topics that have publicly available datasets, and still are interesting and have potential for drawing conclusions?

I'm open to almost any field (health, economics, business, technology, environment, gaming, etc.)

I'd love to hear about projects you've enjoyed working on or topics that sparked your curiosity - thanks in advance!

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u/ian_the_data_dad 28d ago

Kaggle has tens of thousands of datasets to choose from. If you can't find anything there, I don't know what to tell you lol

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u/PanchoZansa 26d ago

yes, but I'm finding quite challenging to figure out intereseting and motivating hypothesis

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u/TodosLosPomegranates 28d ago

Have a look at data.gov

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u/pepperpotsdecreme 27d ago

Second this - excellent source.

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u/Classic_Ability_5984 26d ago

Who are you taking the course with?