centralize open-ended assignment info

assignments.md

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       - [Ed]({{discussions_url}})
       - [Office hours](https://python-public-policy.afeld.me/en/{{school_slug}}/syllabus.html#instructor-information)
 
+## Open-ended assignments
+
+_[Homework 1](hw_1.md) and the [Final Project](final_project.md)_
+
+### Open data portals
+
+There are countless places to get data, notably:
+
+- Local:
+   - [NYC Open Data](https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/)
+      - [Scout](https://scout.tsdataclinic.com/explore/NYC) can be used to find datasets with certain columns
+   - [BetaNYC](https://data.beta.nyc/)
+- U.S. Federal:
+   - [data.gov](https://www.data.gov/)
+   - [Census Bureau](https://data.census.gov/)
+   - [Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
+- [United Nations](https://data.un.org/)
+- [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/)
+- [World Health Organization (WHO)](https://www.who.int/data)
+- [Economic Policy Institute](https://www.epi.org/data/)
+- [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets)
+- [Google Dataset Search](https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/)
+- [Black Wealth Data](https://blackwealthdata.org/)
+- Lists of open data portals:
+   - [DataPortals](https://dataportals.org/)
+   - [Open Data Network](https://www.opendatanetwork.com/)
+
+### Inspiration
+
+For starters, see the [Final Project examples from past semesters](final_project/examples.md).
+
+Probably not realistic to make visualizations that are as fancy as these ones made by professionals, but they may give you ideas. Some also include links/downloads of the source data.
+
+- [FiveThirtyEight Interactives](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/)
+- [The Guardian Visual Journalism](https://www.theguardian.com/interactive)
+- [New York Times Graphics](https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics)
+- [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/)
+- [ProPublica News Apps](https://www.propublica.org/newsapps/)
+- [Visual Capitalist](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/)
+
 ### Storing data
 
 {% if id == "columbia" -%}

final_project/proposal.md

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 ## Process
 
-1. [Find a dataset](resources.md#open-data-portals) that seems interesting.
+1. [Find a dataset](../assignments.md#open-data-portals) that seems interesting.
    - Use at least one dataset that you aren't familiar with.
      - Using data from a primary source is preferred.
    - To meet the [requirement](../final_project.md#analysis-requirements) that your project "not be trivial," you probably want a dataset that's large enough that you can't understand it at a glance. In other words, you probably want it to have 500+ rows.

final_project/resources.md

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 # [Final Project](../final_project.md) resources
 
-## Open data portals
-
-There are countless places to get data, notably:
-
-- Local:
-   - [NYC Open Data](https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/)
-      - [Scout](https://scout.tsdataclinic.com/explore/NYC) can be used to find datasets with certain columns
-   - [BetaNYC](https://data.beta.nyc/)
-- U.S. Federal:
-   - [data.gov](https://www.data.gov/)
-   - [Census Bureau](https://data.census.gov/)
-   - [Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
-- [United Nations](https://data.un.org/)
-- [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/)
-- [World Health Organization (WHO)](https://www.who.int/data)
-- [Economic Policy Institute](https://www.epi.org/data/)
-- [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets)
-- [Google Dataset Search](https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/)
-- [Black Wealth Data](https://blackwealthdata.org/)
-- Lists of open data portals:
-   - [DataPortals](https://dataportals.org/)
-   - [Open Data Network](https://www.opendatanetwork.com/)
-
-## Inspiration
-
-For starters, see the [examples from past semesters](examples.md).
-
-Probably not realistic to make visualizations that are as fancy as these ones made by professionals, but they may give you ideas. Some also include links/downloads of the source data.
-
-- [FiveThirtyEight Interactives](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/)
-- [The Guardian Visual Journalism](https://www.theguardian.com/interactive)
-- [New York Times Graphics](https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics)
-- [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/)
-- [ProPublica News Apps](https://www.propublica.org/newsapps/)
-- [Visual Capitalist](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/)
+Seee also: [open-ended assignment information](../assignments.md#open-ended-assignments)
 
 ## Counting lines of code
 

hw_1.md

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 ## Coding
 
-1. [Find a dataset.](final_project/resources.md#open-data-portals)
+1. [Find a dataset.](assignments.md#open-data-portals)
    - It must have:
      - At least one numeric column
      - Between one thousand and one million rows

syllabus.md

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 Students are more than welcome to share approaches and code snippets in the Discussions, so long as they aren't giving the full solution away.
 
-Students may post their [Final Project](https://python-public-policy.afeld.me/en/{{school_slug}}/final_project.html) publicly (on GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.) since it's open-ended. Other assignments (with "correct answers") cannot be posted publicly, to avoid cheating in future semesters. You are, however, more than welcome to share any of your notebooks with specific people, such as future employers.
+Students may post their [open-ended assignments](https://python-public-policy.afeld.me/en/{{school_slug}}/assignments.html#open-ended-assignments) publicly (on GitHub, LinkedIn, etc). Other assignments (with "correct answers") cannot be posted publicly, to avoid cheating in future semesters. You are, however, more than welcome to share any of your notebooks with specific people, such as future employers.
 
 #### Generative AI