I recommend and encourage you to consider registering for ODU CS 395 Spring 2020 -- Research Methods in Data and Web Science course by Michael L. Nelson. This course will get you up to the speed for academic research, data analysis, writing grant proposals, and publishing papers. The course will have no conventional examinations. Talk to the course instructor if you are interested in it.
I recommend and encourage you to consider registering for ODU CS 395 Spring 2020 -- Research Methods in Data and Web Science course by Michael L. Nelson. This course will get you up to the speed for academic research, data analysis, writing grant proposals, and publishing papers. The course will have no conventional examinations. Talk to the course instructor if you are interested in it.