Week 1

Materials

Slides

Schedule

1:00 - 1:30 : Overview of EDS 411, Capstone Project, and DIP

1:30 - 2:00: Client relations workshop - Miya Scheble, Bren School

2:00 - 2:05: BREAK

2:05 - 3:00: Communication roles activity

3:00 - 3:10: BREAK

3:10 - 3:50: Capstone project group roles, alias, and summary

3:50 - 4:00: Checklist for next class

To do by next week

Client meeting

Goals for first client meeting (to be held before next class):

☑️ Clarify what the objectives are (if you have any questions - know what they are before the meeting)

☑️ Address any issue with accessing data (determine beforehand what these might be)

☑️ Find out who the audience for your product will be and if there will be people who can test it

Before meeting the client meeting, develop an agenda, including:

  • who will be the meeting facilitator/chair and who will take notes
  • agenda (with times)
  • list of clarifying questions you want to ask the client
  • any questions about the data - make sure you know how to access it

After meeting: reflect with your team on how it went and what could be improved.


Read & Prepare

Read:

☑️ MEDS Capstone Project Guidelines, available at Bren’s Academic Resources webste

☑️ Sample DIPs

☑️ Ten simple rules to cultivate belonging in collaborative data science research teams

Prepare with your capstone team 3 slides covering:

  • An ultra summarized version of what your capstone project will do
  • The datasets you’ll use
  • One graph showing exploratory visualization of your data

Pick a person or two who are ready to do a 3 minute presentation next. class


Submit

Submit by 5pm on Tuesday 1/16: Project roles. Update them on the EDS 2024 Capstone Assignments

Submit by 5pm on Friday 1/19: Finalize your summary paragraph for Bren website, add to Capstone Summaries. Your advisor must review your summary before submitting it.