Week 1
Materials
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.