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Project Expectations and Grading Rubric

Expectations

The 1 page project plan should summarize your goals and intended deliverables for the project. Since it can be difficult to estimate the time it will take to complete tasks, organize goals from certain to complete to more aspirational. The exact deliverables will vary significantly from project to project. However I expect most projects will involve about 40 hours of work from each student and produce hundreds of lines of code and many figures. My feedback on your project plan will help ensure that you have targeted the right level of project difficulty.

Each group will give a 20 minute presentation using slides. The project report and code will be stored in a group github repository. Email me (jlong@stat.tamu.edu) a link to the project repository on May 1. Make sure the repository is public. The report itself could be a compiled pdf, a Jupyter notebook, or some other file type that renders nicely on github (eg .rst). If you have a strong preference for another format, contact me to discuss. See Example Github Repos below for some examples of nice looking github project repositories.

Grading Rubric

Project Suggestions

You are encouraged to come up with your own project topic. If nothing comes to mind, here are some ideas:

Example Github Repos

You will submit your project as a github repo. The repo should contain the report. One option is to write your report in the README.rst or README.md file, similar to this project but with more text. That way the report will be the first thing I see on your repo.

Another option is for your readme just to describe the where code / report are. For example this project has a short README.md advertising what is in the repo which refers users to the files demo_R.ipynb and demo_python.ipynb.