What is a Research Question?

Heather Krause
4 min readOct 8, 2020

Here at We All Count, we spend a lot of time talking about research questions. Step 3 of the Data Equity Framework is Project Design, and that’s where you want to embed equity while crafting your research question(s), but in order to that, you need to know what a research question is.

A data project research question defines what information you want from the data, written in a way that is concrete, measurable

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Heather Krause

Data scientist & statistician (one of only 150 accredited PStats worldwide). Providing data science services grounded in an equity lens. https://weallcount.com