The project is a fundamental part of your learning, it is an opportunity to apply what you have learned in the workshops and your bibliographic research.
The objective of the project is to provide you with a simulation that will enable you to mobilize the knowledge acquired during the workshops. At the end of this project you should be able to present, a data analysis in an effective way by telling a story that facilitates decision-making.

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Definition

Group: The project must be realized in pairs on the same dataset but each student have to produce its own deliverables.

Data: You are free to choose the dataset you want to analyze. However, it is recommended to choose one, on which you already have an overview of interesting things to say. Interesting means you can define 2 Big Ideas, with recommendations and a call for action; for both Big Ideas, the dataset allows you to describe a problem and a goal, and a solution to reach the goal.

Assessment: The final assessment is individual and is based on the developped skills. The “Achieved” level is judged in relation to your presentation, the “Beyond Expectations” level in relation to your assessment of one of your peers.

Deliverables

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Before the presentation: Each student will have to put on Moodle, a zip archive named name_firstname.zip and containing:

  • big idea sheet,
  • storyboard sketching pad (or story template),
  • (optional) dataviz: high quality images and/or link toward interactive graphs embedded in webpage (e.g. Tableau Public),
  • slides in PDF named name_firstname.pdf.

Deadline: The day before the presentation

Presentation: For each pair, each student will have 3 minutes to present a convincing-and different-story by highlighting a Big Idea and presenting two, three or four graphs that meet all quality criteria. Each student is expected to provide 1 to 3 visuals. The presentation contains a maximum of 5 slides: 1 cover page, 1 to 3 graphics, and 1 concluding page.

Assessment: Each student will have to evaluate another student (who will be randomly selected on the day of the presentations) and submit their report named name_firstname_assessment.pdf on Moodle. The evaluation should position the work on the basis of several criteria present in this assessment grid and argue these choices by highlighting the positive and negative points and proposing improvements.

Deadline: The day of the presentation

Tools

To help you finalize your project you can rely on this checklist.