Final project notes

[ykharitonova]

• Have a peer-review assignment as a checkpoint submission: perhaps a week before the assignment is due, allow/assign teams to peer-review their work. To accomplish this, need to have the teams submit their project topics in advance, so that we have a list of teams/projects available.
• give LaTeX examples in advance of the project, so that students can use it for the final report.

Final report structure / notes

• Separate data / methods into their own sections; align them with the rubric.
• Including references at the end of the report without referencing them in the text is not how citations work. Citations should be referenced in the text. Specify the citation style.
• For the submitted notebook section: "It is most helpful if the notebook has a structure to it.
  If we have a question from reading the report, we should be able to load the notebook and re-run it to get the same chart / see the calculations used in the analysis, so it is within your interest to make it easy to find."

[afranks86]

To include next time:

• Define population, sample, and sampling frame.
• Require PCA next time? Almost nobody used it.
• Ethical issues: students focus on ethics of the dataset not the ethics of their analysis. What are the ethical implications of the results of their analysis.

[afranks86]

• Explicit examples of how we want them to cite literature. E.g. "studies have shown that giving explicit instructions helps students (Franks, 2020)."