Lab 13: Final Group Project Meeting

Preamble

The purpose of this lab is to select the dataset that your team will recommend to be included in future iterations of SDS 100.

After completing this lab, your group will have selected the dataset for the final project including the document explaining your group’s decision and have a plan for how to complete your final project.

You will know that you are done when you have:

  • Selected one dataset that your group will submit
  • Submitted a plan to Moodle with your group’s selection paragraph and a list of assigned roles/tasks.

Why are we here?

Preliminary work

If you haven’t yet, take a minute to read all of the rotation documents and reflect on which one you would like to recommend for inclusion in future iterations of SDS100.

Lab instructions

Today will be a structured group meeting with the goal of laying out a plan for completing the final project. This meeting is intended to take about an hour. The last 15 minutes of class will be for Q&A about the final project.

To begin, please spend the first 10 minutes of class reading the individual recommendation paragraphs.

Question

Now that you have each read the recommendations, discuss the following questions as a group:

  • What similarities did you notice?
  • What differences did you notice?
  • What ideas did you find the most compelling? What metrics are you using to determine which is the most “compelling”?
  • Where in SDS 100 do you see these datasets fitting?
Question

Make a selection and write a paragraph about why your group selected the final dataset

  • You might have comparisons between the various datasets
Question

Now that your group has selected the one dataset that you will use for the final project, it is time to craft a plan for how to finish the project.

Here are a series of recommendations (but not requirements) that you might consider while detailing a plan to complete the final project:

  • Identify roles for completing the project. Ones you might consider are: revising, restructuring, editing, formatting checks, grammar checks, consultation with Jacobson Center, final submitter
  • Identify a timeline and expectations. Be explicit! Who is doing what and by when?
  • Identify norms for the final work. Be explicit! Will you work like a relay (individually, but passing the document) or collectively (all meeting a few times together) or something else? How will you communicate with each other: phones, slack, texting, WeChat, etc?

Use the list above to create a plan for submitting your final project.

Question

Throughout this lab, you and your group have worked to build a plan for completing your final project. Before you leave for today, what questions would you like answered in order to feel that you can be successful with this project?

Submitting this lab

For this lab submission, you will be selecting your final project dataset and making a plan for how to complete your project.

Submit the group completion plan

Open the “Final project completion plan” assignment on Moodle and paste your paragraph explaining why your group selected the dataset and a list of the roles and timeline for completing the project. This is a group submission, meaning that one person will submit for the whole group.

Do this before you leave the room!

Submit the group .qmd document

By 11:59pm on the first day of finals, submit the document that you chose as part of this lab under the “Final project” assignment on Moodle. This is a group submission, meaning that one person will submit for the whole group.

Please submit ALL of the following:

  • .qmd file (Quarto source file)
  • .html file (HTML output file)
  • .bib file (citations)
  • any other files required to render the .qmd file (e.g. a CSV with your data if you’re importing from a local file)

Make sure that you have embed-resources: true in your YAML header!

There is no Moodle quiz for this lab.

Complete the Reflection

Once your group has turned in their final submission, each member should individually complete the Reflection assignment under Lab 13 on Moodle. This assignment will ask you to reflect on how your team worked together over the course of the final project. Your responses on this assignment will be one of several factors in helping me determine everyone’s final project participation token.