TDSM 1.3

Data.gov is a collection of large datasets from various fields. Some interesting fields with their dataset names are:

- College Scorecard [1]. This data collects certain important information of all the universities and colleges in the United States. Some of this information includes:

  - The latitude and longitude of where the institute is located.
  - The Male/Female ratio in the institute.
  - The average Salary of Undergraduates and Graduates after pass out.
  - Average SAT and GRE scores of the admitted candidates.

 This information can be used to build many interesting applications, some of which are:
  - To what extent the SAT/GRE score decides the salary that a student will be offered after graduation.
  - What factors decide the graduation salary of a student? Is it the location of the institute, the avg. SAT/GRE, the faculty-student ratio?
  - Does the presence of a university in a region affect its economy?

- American FactFinder Dataset [2]. This dataset is a collection of population, economic, geographic and housing information of several regions in the United States. Interesting questions that can be answered with this dataset are:

  - Is the economy of a region dependent on a particular race?
  - Which region contributes most to the economy of United States and what factors is this contribution dependent upon?
  - How is the average family income dependent on the demographic distribution of a region?

- Crime data [3]. This dataset contains a listing of all the crimes from 2001 to present happened in the city of Chicago. A lot of interesting insights can be generated if we combine this data with the demographic data of Chicago. Some interesting questions worth exploring are:

  - How crime affects the economy of the area?
  - What causes crime to increase in a certain locality? Education, average family income?
  - What factors are negatively related to crime and will the crime decrease if we pay emphasis on these factors that curb crime.