Final Project

Intermediate Data Programming

Embark on a journey where you’ll harness your data programming prowess to transform raw data into compelling narratives. Your mission: select a dataset that intrigues you, meticulously organize and analyze it, and craft insightful visualizations that tell its story. This project culminates in a presentation where you’ll showcase your findings, demonstrating the powerful insights that effective data programming can unveil.

IMPORTANT: You may NOT reuse work that you may have done for another class or club. For example, you cannot take your Data Science project done for TSA. Everything must be new.

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During this Final Project you will have four dates to deliver each of the items below. This is an overview of the deliverables at the various stages of your Final Project.

Be sure to review the project tips here Project Tips

Other references specific to Intermediate Data Programming are also available here: Resources.

#1: Discovery Document and Raw Data

You will deliver your initial proposed project and scope.

  • A Markdown or Google Document.
  • Your GitHub of your raw_data (or link to data > 1GB)

#2: Data Organization

You will deliver the following:

  • Reduced and partially organized dataset uploaded to GitHub
  • Code that partially organizes the data
  • Sketches of target plots
  • Perhaps some Unit Tests (Challenge Goal)
  • Perhaps Web Scraped data or data downloaded via API (Challenge Goal)

#3: Final Code & Research Document

You will deliver your final code in GitHub using the original starting project provided to you in class as well as a polished research document. The document will focus on the plots and the insights they provide.

#4 Challenge Tasks

You will implement and deliver these either with the Data Organization and/or Final Code and Report deliverable.

#5: Final Presentation

This will be your story – a verbal presentation of your Data Science results colored by your subjective journey through the project. You will introduce your research topic, provide context and goals. In short, show plots and explain the results. You will have a slide deck that is almost exclusively a collection of the plots that tell a story.

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