Milestone 3

Due date: April 1, 2025 (with HW7)

Purpose: The goal of Milestone 3 is to make progress on the goals you set out earlier, refine your research question through the process of writing, and get tailored feedback on next steps.

Task (requirements for passing this Milestone):

1. Complete the steps in your plan from Milestone 2 (the plan with feedback from the instructional team).
2. Write a short blog post (no more than 500 words) about your results so far. Focus on the motivation and rationale. Create a Milestone3.qmd file in your results folder within project repository on Github and render to generate an HTML file for this post. In this post, you should:
   • Motivate the importance of the topic (use external sources to strengthen the importance)
   • Lead the reader through the rationale for the narrowing/focusing of the scope via the main 2-3 broad questions
   • Tie any results (plots and modeling output) to the broad questions and explain how all results fit together
   • End with main takeaways, limitations with regard to the data context and ethical considerations, and future directions