LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
MAC286: Data Structures
Project
Core Competency and Ability: Global Learning and Oral
Write a scientific research paper by choosing any topic related to Computer Science
which ties to Global learning competency. Global learning focuses on transnational
economic, political, environmental, physical, social and cultural issues and their
implications. It enables students to advance their knowledge and understanding of global
issues, events and histories, and apply learning to take responsible, ethical action in
contemporary global contexts.
Examples of topics that can be used are:
Analyzing the world stock market and how it impacts global economy
Analyzing the social media data based on demographics and how it affects the
global activities such as politics etc.
Analyze the data from WHO (World Health Organization)
https:
www.who.int/gho/en/
Use appropriate data from NY state or any other
o Look accident data and see if there is any relation with economic
development etc.
Analyze Global warming data and find out its causes, impact etc. Example:
https:
www.stateofglobalair.org/data/#/ai
table
Analyze World Happiness data and figure out the factors that lead to happiness of
a country, role of economy that determine happiness of a country, etc.
Crypto cu
ency and its impact on financial industry, global economy.
From World Inequality data, analyze how global inequality has changed and is
predicted to continue changing in the future.
Phase I: Project proposal guidelines 20 Points
• Create a word document names YourName_Project. Do not use any other file names.
• Project proposal should be one to two pages long in an essay style and should include
following: Title of the project, Group member’s names.
• Why did you choose this topic? What is the main research question?
https:
www.who.int/gho/en
https:
www.stateofglobalair.org/data/#/ai
table
• What are the key ideas/ concept behind the project?
• What are the resources you have used and why did you choose those? (List all the
esources you have used) Resources should be from IEEE, ACM or listed under Google
Scholar.
• What are some of the related areas of research under the topic you have chosen?
(Different then what you are doing)
Phase II: 80 Points
A scientific paper can be divided into 7 parts as follows:
● Introduction
● Literature Review
● Methodology
● Results (programming)
● Discussion of Results
● Conclusion
● Annotated Bibliography
● Appendices
● PowerPoint slides and classroom presentation
You must begin with an Introduction that explains the purpose of your investigation and
your hypotheses or a set of hypotheses based on what you would expect your results to
validate. It should analyze the dynamics of global issues.
The Literature Review section discusses existing scholarly articles in a particular
esearch area. It summarizes prior research and how your work can be linked to it. This
section also demonstrates what you have learned from the existing research work and
how you identified the starting point of your new idea in that research area.
The Methodology section should include a step by step description of the experiment
you run, the programs you write as part of this experiment, and how you group and
analyze the results of your experiments. Please keep the methodology to no more than 2
pages in length.
The Results section which includes only the data generated by the experiments that you
an in a one-page chart. You need to clarify and explain the chart so that it is
understandable to the reader. Please keep this section no longer than two pages including
the chart.
The interpretation of your results as it relates to your Introduction should be given in a
separate section called the Discussion of Results. In this section you must clarify/justify
any discrepancies you may have found based on your randomized trials. This is the main
ody of your work and should be between 2 and 4 pages. Be sure to cite the literature
where applicable. You should refer to known results from the literature and cite them in
your Bibliography.
The Conclusions section should summarize the main results and relate back to the
hypotheses specified in the Introduction. It should also include recommendations for
further study based on questions that you may have thought of but did not resolve during
your research. This section must contain a summary of what you learned from conducting
the trials and your examination of the literature. The conclusion should not be more than
1 page.
You must also include an Appendix that shows the well documented code that produced
the results specified in the Results section of your report.
This assignment is a group project with each group having a maximum of 2 students.
Within each group I expect that you will be editing each other’s work with respect to
content, grammar and style.
The group will be presenting their work during the last week of the semester using a
PowerPoint or any other medium presentation (you may also use the computer to
illustrate
un some of your programs.)
Grading Criteria:
Each stage of the assignment will be weighted as follows:
Section Percentage
Introduction 10
Literature Review 10
Methodology 10
Results 10
Discussion of Results 10
Conclusion 10
Annotated Bibliography 5
Appendix 15
Oral Presentation 20 percent
Make sure to use your core ePortfolio to upload your work and deposit your
ePortfolio page into the digication.