class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Week 1 ## Introduction & Asking Questions ### Dani Cosme --- ## Welcome! -- Introductions * Name (& pronouns if you'd like to share) * Year & Major * Role in PLTV * Experience with research and using R (or other programming languages) * One thing you're excited to learn in this seminar * One fun (alt: boring) fact about yourself --- ## Learning objectives -- By the end of this seminar, you will be able to: -- * Develop research questions related to your work with PLTV -- * Identify ethical issues related to your research -- * Test research questions using observational and experimental methods -- * Design and implement surveys using Qualtrics -- * Execute and modify scripts to tidy, analyze, and visualize data in R -- * Summarize and interpret results --- class: small ## Schedule | Week | Date | Topic| Assignment | | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | | 1 | February 26 | Introduction & Asking Questions | +Develop a research question | | 2 | March 5 | Experimentation | +Develop newsletter frames | | 3 | *March 19 | Survey design | +Create a Qualtrics survey | | 4 | March 26 | Data wrangling | Execute and modify R script | | 5 | April 2 | Data visualization | Execute and modify R script | | 6 | April 9 | Quantitative analysis | Execute and modify R script | | 7 | April 16 | Text analysis | Execute and modify R script | | 8 | April 23 | Summary, Synthesis, & Interpretation | +Generate HTML file summary | <br> \*No meeting March 12 (Spring Break) <br> \+Collaborative work --- ## Workflow -- * Friday meetings * Provide background, context, and practical skills directly relevant to your research activities * Weekly "assignments" (collaborative research activities or coding activities in R) * Progress check-ins * Will be recorded for folks who can't be here (assuming folks are okay with this) -- * Slack * Communicate about assignments during the week * Get and give feedback on assignments * Collective troubleshooting --- ## Logistics -- * Course website: https://dcosme.github.io/pltv-seminar/ -- * Communication on [Slack](https://pennleadsthevote.slack.com/) -- * [Prework](https://dcosme.github.io/pltv-seminar/prework/) ✅ Join Slack ✅ Complete CITI certificate ✅ Download [R](https://cran.r-project.org/) and [RStudio](https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/) ✅ Complete [R Bootcamp modules](https://dcosme.github.io/pltv-seminar/prework/) by Week 4 (March 26) & post questions to Slack --- class: center, middle ## Goal for this week Collectively identify a research question to test this semester<br><br> --- ## Asking research questions -- ### Start big <img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/l2Sq3IKvquddMcvlK/giphy.gif" width="50%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <center>What is the meaning of life?</center> --- ## Asking research questions ### Refine it -- * **WHO** is is about? * Residents of South Park -- * **HOW** will you operationalize it? * Ranking of options in a survey -- * **WHAT** is your hypothesis? * We expect that residents of South Park will rank *keeping Kenny alive* as the meaning of life compared to other alternatives --- ## PLTV staff brainstorm recap Link to [Jamboard activity](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1U_CKJIRKycC7BGD-PKZzKtlbs6M8s9rB3rLeVNvMM1g/edit?usp=sharing) <img src="imgs/pltv_brainstorm.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ## Let's brainstorm Key research activity: message framing experiment ### Research question ideas... .can-edit.key-likes[ - idea one - idea two ] --- ## Assignment Using this [Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ilhDSANkEeMWEjDG7Vo6ZX04EDygMBiR367ptOwsoY/edit?usp=sharing), work together via Slack to define and refine a research question by answering the following questions: -- * What is your research question? -- * What population do you want to draw inference about? -- * How will you operationalize your research question? -- * What is your hypothesis? -- * Are there ethical issues related to your question to consider?