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The Purpose Of The Signature Assignment Is To Have You Work With Real

The purpose of the Signature Assignment is to have you work with real-life data to answer a real-life question using the tools, technology, and skills of MTH/219. In the first week, you must develop a question that can be answered with numerical data and that spans over at least ten years. For example, "How has the population of the world changed over the past 50 years, and when will the population be unsustainable?" In a Microsoft ® Word document, write the topic/question you are addressing, where you plan to find your data even if it is one of the below sources, and why you chose this topic. Your paper should be 30 to 45 words long. You can either choose a topic from the Student Topics and Questions List or can create your own.

If you chose to create your own, you must get instructor approval. Here is a list of possible data sources to find your data: Healthcare data; Educational data; Criminal data. Select the type of table under Law Enforcement or Incarcerations. Select year. Then select the type of data you are looking for from the dropdown menus and click on the Microsoft ® Excel ® table, which will automatically download on your computer. Mortgage data; Census data (Population, economy, business, education, employment, health, housing, income, trade); UN data (income, trade, religion, health, poverty); Health data; Globalization, health, and agriculture data; UCR data (crime). You may choose to find data elsewhere, but you must get it approved by your instructor.

It is very important the data you collect meet the following requirements: It has data from a trusted/peer-reviewed source that is numeric per year. You can collect at least ten data points (data over at least ten years old). Your question can be answered with the data.

Paper For Above instruction

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze long-term demographic trends to address a specific, data-driven research question. My chosen question is: "How has the global average temperature changed over the past 20 years, and what implications does this have for future climate predictions?" I plan to source my data primarily from NASA's Global Climate Change data portal, which provides peer-reviewed, reliable temperature records, ensuring data integrity for a decade or more. I selected this topic because understanding climate change is crucial for policy development and environmental conservation efforts, and the data available allows for a clear, numerical analysis of temperature trends over time.

NASA's publicly accessible climate data includes annually recorded global temperature averages, providing a consistent and credible source for longitudinal analysis. The dataset spans over 20 years, getting from reliable sources supports the necessity for factual accuracy. The topic also aligns with societal concerns about climate change and sustainability, making the data both relevant and actionable. Additionally, analyzing temperature change over time helps in modeling future climate scenarios, which can inform policymakers and the public about necessary mitigation strategies.

The data will be organized in a spreadsheet, illustrating temperature trends over the chosen years. Descriptive statistics and trend analysis will be applied to reveal whether the average temperature has significantly increased, stabilized, or decreased, and projections will be made based on current data trends. By examining this long-term data, I aim to answer the question of how climate has shifted and what this might mean for future environmental conditions. The insights gained from this analysis can contribute to ongoing discussions about climate resilience and policy planning at both local and global levels.

References

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