Final Project Information

Presentation Schedule on May 10 6:30 pm

• Each presentation can be short as 5 minutes but no longer than 10 minutes.
• Presentations will go in the following order

Title	Student(s)
Opioid Prescription Rates	Fay
COVID-19 Hospital Data Coverage Detail	Jacqueline, Lena, & Selma
Gun violence in the US	Angie
Gender in the Workforce	My Vo & Ha Linh
Analysis of Doctor Who Series: characteristics that impact popularity and rating	Liann
Exploring the Key Characteristics of Popular Netflix Movies and TV Shows from 1954 to Early 2023	Samantha R., Chelsea, & Johana
Kiki’s Statistical Delivery Service	Jullie & Sydney
Unraveling Cultural Narratives in Art History Textbooks: A Data-Driven Analysis of Artist Demographics	Sophie
Password Strength	Kat, Hannah & Hamdi
Exploring Factors Affecting Ramen Ratings: An Analysis of the Ramen Ratings Dataset	Muskan
Sugar Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in United States Agriculture	Sam M.
Uncovering Climate Patterns in the US: A Comprehensive Analysis of NOAA’s Weather	Celia

How Your Final Report will be Graded

• Recall: Your Final Project is 20% of your Final Grade; 85% of that will be your final project report.

• A turn in link for this is in Moodle here. Your final project folder (with the required files and directories) is due on or by Friday May 12 at 11:59 pm.

Technical requirements	Possible points	Outstanding	Good	Passing	Struggling Effort	Not Making Sufficient Effort
Code and output is included and properly formatted in an .Rmd (which knits) and all required files (including the proposal) are placed in given directory structure	10
No error messages are included (or left unexplained)	4
Generated data visualizations are appropriate, compelling, Include captions that include the data source(s)	15
Use of concepts covered in class is present (other concepts may be explored)	10
Summary statistics, comparison, or any other type of quantitative analysis is present and supports the analysis; explanations for why you are removal entire rows (do you need to?); have at least 50 observations even after row removal if are doing that; reasons for imputation if appropriate and you use.	15
Dataset description is included (or referenced) and comments on the attributes and their units are present	10
Data analysis is fully reproducible (or special requirements for reproducibility are detailed)	6

Narrative	Possible points	Outstanding	Good	Passing	Struggling Effort	Not Making Sufficient Effort
Discussion on findings is sound and coherent	5
The analysis is carefully thought-out and there’s not a bunch of plots or without reason or explanations.	10
Future work is included (and/or commentary of limitations is included)	5
Results are clear and a convincing argument is present	8
All data sources, images that are not yours, and sites that you used are referenced when you used them and all references are listed at the end of your report. See example report.Rmd	2

How Your Final Presentation will be Graded

• Recall: Your Final Project is 20% of your Final Grade; 15% of that will be your final project presentation.

• The presentation should consist of about 5–10 slides. You should briefly describe the research question, the data involved, the analysis performed, and the conclusions drawn from the analysis.

Presentation requirements	Possible points	Outstanding	Good	Passing	Struggling Effort	Not Making Sufficient Effort
.Rmd knits and is part of the final project folder submission	5
Data retrieval, curation, and size information provided	5
Total Presentation length is within 5-10 minutes for your topic, everyone presents	10
You should briefly describe the research question, the analysis performed, and the conclusions drawn from the analysis.	20
Use echo=FALSE to focus on output	4
Responds well to questions	10
Accurate, clear, dynamic, and stimulating responses are consistently provided	10
Visualizations are well-formatted with appropriate captions and titles	15
Coherent and concise narrative throughout the presentation	13
*You filled out the evaluation for the final project - Pick Appropriate Link (below)	8

*Project Evaluation Link

• Evaluation of the final project form - due by Friday May 12 at 11:59 pm

  • If you did yours in a group: https://forms.gle/1HfCu9Hdha9od2ko9
  • If you did yours by yourself: https://forms.gle/7r9ZLoVVJdHTESWt8

• General Information that you have already seen from about the final project is here