Day Summary

In this tutorial, you’ve learned about how to construct a research project. You now know how to:

• Identify a phenomenon and ask a good research question

• Do a literature review to determine what is already known about the phenomenon

• Choose a dataset to address your research question

• Form a good, testable hypothesis

• Draft and implement data analysis

• Interpret your results

• Communicate your findings to a broader audience

Feel free to refer back to this section as you work on your own research projects for reminders about the scientific process and how to avoid pitfalls.