Peer Review for Birth_Rate_Analysis

[kaavyakalani26]

• The main page looks good and contains all the relevant files and folder.
• child_expendure_graphs.qmd seems to be out our place so I would recommend moving it to the appropriate folder.

Readme

• Title of the readme should change
• Overview can be expanded
• LLM Usage statement needs to be updated. It mentions that "entire chat history is available in inputs/llms/usage.txt" but this path does not exist in your folder.

Scripts folder

• The scripts folder has a lot of scripts in it, possibly imported by the started folder but never used or updated. I would recommend cleaning up the scripts folder to contain the scripts being used by you.
• In the files coded by you in scripts folder, consider adding a preamble at the beginning of each file for an external person to understand the purpose of the files

Data folder

• Your data folder looks good and seems like it contains all the files you are using.
• Similar feedback as the scripts folder, remove the files and folders not being used by you

Other folder

• Seems like the folder only contains started folder files. I would recommended cleaning that up to make sure it only contains the files and folders you need
• No sketches included. Would recommend doing some as it helps you have an idea of how your dataset should look like

Output folder

• Your output folder looks great and seems to contains all the figures you have generated!

Paper folder

• Reccurring feedback but remove the files and folders you do not need
• Folder seems to contain a csv? Consider moving it to the data folder

Feedback for the paper

• Interesting topic
• Add a line to the footnote about where to find the replication aspects
• The paper overall looks very incomplete and is missing a lot of things so a fair feedback is hard to give.
• Missing abstract
• Clearly define your sections and subsections as right now it is very unclear with the difference in font sizes and styling at different places.
• Consider adding a table of contents so that the reader knows whats to come and where to find what.
• The points under introduction seem like a good brainstorming of the structure and contain a good direction.
• File contains a lot of raw R code - a big no no! make sure to remove any raw R code from your pdf
• A lot of cross references do not link to anything
• The content and visualisation under "Analysis Results" looks nice and promising. The statistics' and trends' discussion really adds to your content.
• Consider enhancing the graphs. For example, the figure "Average Number of Births" has a lot of overlapping y axis state names.
• The discussion point graphs look nice. Do add some text talking about the graphs and addressing the mentioned discussion points.
• Add captions to your tables and images, for example : "Figure 1: ..."
• Reference section present and contain R citation. Nice!!
• Overall, great topic and visualisations. Excited to see the complete paper.