The project is designed to give you experience collecting or finding your own dataset, determining the appropriate questions to answer about the data, and planning how to execute analysis of the data. The project involves several parts. The project represents 13% of your final grade for ETC1010.
Regarding Groups
For Semester 1, 2020, we strongly suggest that you stay in the groups you were in for assignment 2. If you would like to change groups for your project, you should do this before Milestone One, and email Nick.
Steps taken to complete the project
Locate a suitable data source and determine appropriate questions that could be answered using this data. It cannot be data set from kaggle, or Tidy Tuesday, or something where the data has been tidied up and ready for data analysis. It needs to be from an original source. If it is is csv format, there need to be more than one file or multiple sheets. Challenge yourself to work with data addressing a problem in today’s world.
Cleaning of your data, in order to answer your questions. This is the important part to illustrate in your project, because we are expecting you to be able to demonstrate your ability to take a messy data set and organise it for later analysis.
Simple analysis using methods covered in class; exploratory data analysis, numerical and visual summaries of the data, and the application of basic modeling strategies. The focus is on trying to answer some of the questions you posed. You are not expected to answer all, if you have a long lots of questions.
Describe your cleaning procedures and analytics in web story board, which can be done using a slideshow, created xaringan, a flexdashboard, or a simple shiny app. You should include why you chose the data and what learned about the problem by completing this project. We can upload these to the departmental shiny server for everyone to see, and so that you can show it off to future employers or your family members.
Present your data analysis in class, a 5 minute oral presentation, recorded with zoom.
This project will be conducted collaboratively, with team of your choices, and with a maximum team size of 4 To ensure correct marks are awarded, please carefully document, in detail, your individual contributions to the project. Each team member is expected to participate substantially in all aspects of the work, including the writing and oral presentation.
| Due date | Turn in | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Milestone 1: 15th May at midnight | Prospective team members and topics | 5 |
| Milestone 2: 22nd May | Team members and team name, and paragraph describing possible data sets, with links to the data sources. | 5 |
| Milestone 3: 29th May | Electronic copy of your data, and a page of data description, and cleaning done, or needing to be done. | 10 |
| Milestone 4: 5th June | Final version of story board uploaded | 20 |
| Milestone 5: 8th June | Upload project presentation video by 4pm | 20 |
| View + mark videos: 9th-12th June | Project presentations during class periods. All students are expected to attend, and points will be de- ducted for non-attendance. | 30 (peer evaluation) 5 points will be deducted from your presentation score if you do not mark all presentations. 5 points if you skip the class where you did not present. |