"Write an interesting introductory paragraph that provides context to this topic. This paragraph should include a description of the current homicide situation in the region. You should use government and/or police reports, and descriptive statistics from your dataset. Be sure to cite any sources you use by placing a [#1] beside the cited sentence, and then the full reference at the bottom of the page. Under this paragraph, include an image collected from a public website. Be sure to cite the source of the photo directly under the image on the webpage.#2"
"Write a brief paragraph explaining the objective of this project. Do not mention that it is part of an assignment; instead, focus your writing on the public who can learn something from your work. In this paragraph, you should describe your objective, how you will accomplish this objective, and why it is important to conduct this work. Do not get into the nitty-gritty details here (don’t mention R or specific methods or equations). Instead, this paragraph should be easily understood by a general audience."
"Write a brief paragraph explaining the City of Victoria"
"Describe the dataset you are using for this project and provide a link and reference. You could also include a map of the dataset if you want – that would be a nice touch."
"Write this section as a narrative rather than as a methods and results section. It can be very boring for the general public to read equations and try to understand the math behind everything, therefore you need to clearly and concisely explain the methods you used and what they produced. I recommend having two main sections, each focused on one of the two questions posed by your supervisor (check the Assignment 2 instructions in Top Hat)"
"To answer this question, provide a few sentences explaining each method you use and what it does, and then a brief paragraph describing the results."
"To answer this question, provide a few sentences explaining each method and what it does, and then a brief paragraph describing the results."
"Describe anything that the reader should be aware of with your findings. For example, did the number of quadrats in the quadrat analysis or the bandwidth in the KDE impact your results? The key here is not to make it sound as if your methods are bad. Instead, you simply want to make the reader aware of anything that they need to consider when making sense of your findings. Be honest, but not overly self-critical."
"*IMPORTANT: for the nearest neighbour analysis, you NEED to include the n and the area of the study site. You can include these in the text when describing this method."
"Write a paragraph that summarizes your findings from the previous section. This is where you pull everything together to answer your two questions you ask in the opening paragraphs. Don’t just reiterate what you wrote in the Analysis section. Instead, write an interesting summary that brings it all together."
"For your final paragraph, provide a takeaway message for the reader. What has this analysis revealed? What could be the possible drivers of what your results show? Do these findings agree or disagree with conventional wisdom (provide citations for conventional wisdom). This is the paragraph that people will remember after reading your report, so it has it be clear, impactful, and provide insight into this topic."
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1. Reference 1
2. Reference 2
3. City of Victoria. (2019). Neighbourhood Boundaries in the City of Victoria. [shapefile - 2019-09-21]. Accessed 2019-09-23 from http://opendata.victoria.ca/datasets/neighbourhood-boundaries/data