BUA 302 Group Analysis Submission

This report analyzes NSF funding trends across 14 institutional peers, including Colorado State University (CSU), using R and Tableau. The study explores total awards and award counts from the dataset through various visualizations: • Bar charts highlight award distribution across institutions. • Scatter plots examine the relationship between award amount and count. • Bubble plots visualize award distribution with size indicators. • Time series plots track NSF funding trends over multiple years, with CSU highlighted for comparative insights. The analysis applies data wrangling (dplyr, stringr) and data visualization (ggplot2, ggrepel, scales) in R Markdown. This project underscores the significance of NSF funding trends, institutional comparisons, and the impact of research funding on universities.

A short introduction to simple linear regression using a practical real-world example estimating house prices based on square footage.