"do a projection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to predicting or estimating how a future event or situation may turn out, based on current or past trends. For example, "We need to do a projection to forecast sales for the coming quarter."
Moodys does a projection, and its for the U.S. market, a 3.6% default rate for 2010, which is quite a sharp drop because it was 13% last year.
If we do a demographic projection forward 50 years, we know we cannot continue doing so or allowing other countries to do so.
He is concerned about being typecast but, he says, "comedically, when I do a posh divvy projection of myself, or whatever it is, I find it a lot better for finding laughs and making it funnier".
Below 2 nM, many of the cells were still dividing and did not make a projection.
I do a lot of 3D projection and experiential installations, and I also have a background in graphic design, so I usually bring that into a lot of my projects to complete the aesthetic.
"When I sit with investors from the western world," he said, "they do a PowerPoint presentation about projections, cash-flows, profit and loss accounts, income statements, balance sheets, risk assessments and all these flamboyant graphs.
The temporal discretization is done using a projection scheme and the spatial discretization is done using a finite element method.
The redesign plan did not specify the new flight patterns exactly, but the F.A.A. did release a projection of the noise impact.
It also must do a two-year cash-flow projection to show it can repay all its obligations.
But his observation that Western monotheism has "always offered... scandalously literal claims" is misleading — suggesting, as it does, an unexamined projection upon the past.
