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Every project ends in something real. Filter by what you want to make, or the career you want to try on.
Every project ends in something real. Filter by what you want to make, or the career you want to try on.
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You're going to pick a real question with a real answer (how much your school district spends on athletics versus arts, why a local landmark closed, what your city actually does with recycling) and answer it with primary documents, not opinion. The skill is reasoning from evidence: figuring out what the records actually prove versus what you assumed going in, and claiming only what you can defend. That's what investigative journalism actually is, proving something true with evidence, and doing one tells you fast whether chasing the real answer is your kind of work.
You're going to take a real question you care about, find a public dataset that can answer it, and publish a piece that argues a finding with real charts. The skill is analytical judgment: deciding what the data actually supports versus what you hoped to find, and not over-claiming when it's close. That's the real work of a data analyst, the call about what's true and what isn't, and doing one tells you fast whether digging for an honest answer is your kind of work.