Social Science is an information heavy topic to talk about. It’s an information heavy topic because to talk about any social issue without knowledge can make you sound foolish or all over the place due to how big the history can be for certain subjects. That is why good sources and databases are a must when researching a social issue. Which can be hard because there are many databases that have been deemed worthy enough for usage, you just have to be able to tell if information is accurate because at times the information can prove to be false. Take Wikipedia for example. Wikipedia is a go to for many people in the world but people sometimes fail to realize that the information on Wikipedia can be edited by anyone in the world. This is why I have learned to use the databases that are provided by Ramapo College. The library at Ramapo offers many databases to use, such as, JSTOR, ProQuest, and Academic Search Premier and those are just a few databases. That’s not mentioning the other sources provided by the professor such as the Jane Addams Digital Edition, which holds newspapers and historical information for a variety of topics. But I usually just stick to using Ramapo College databases because they have everything I need. They have full text pdf, scholarly journals and sources, and they have the source already cited. I don’t ever have to worry about the credibility of the source I want to use because I know it’s credible. But questions I plan to ask my data are, how long has racism and discrimination been an issue on college campuses, how does racism and discrimination affect that colleges attendance rate and what is being done to combat this issue on campus. Finding data for some of these questions will not be easy at all. Proper wording of the question or the correct keys used will be important when finding data. I believe the most difficult question to find data for is how would racism and discrimination affect college attendance rates. This would be most difficult in my opinion because that kind of data is hard to attain. For that data to have any kind of statistical truth, people would have to confess to that being a reason why they make the choice to not attend a college. Not too many people would do that because not a lot of people like admitting that they are scared. So I believe a little cleaning would be needed for that question and data to be used. The process of analyzing and visualizing data can be difficult if you have no idea what you are doing. If you do not have the correct information to answer the question then the data you have would mean nothing. But the questions I plan to ask will cover a range of fields for me. I plan to ask questions that will give the history of the issue, that will tell me how the people feel about the issue, and will inform me of what is done to stop the issue.