Assignments Due
Week 13 checkpoints should be submitted by Monday, 04/09/2018 at 11:59 PM PDT.
Last week you rebuilt the prompt into something you felt some ownership over. Let that be an evolving blueprint for how to execute on the remainder of your data science design.
Begin a draft both of your written composition and your slide deck. Let these formats work in tandem as you develop your ideas, with your write-up as the more formal of the two.
Your instructor will be pleased if you shed the scaffolding of the course, see your objective clearly, and design a data science concept that captures your team vision. The prompt and the templates are useful starting points, but you should endeavor to create a product that stands under its own weight, so to speak.
Distribute the workload fairly, and be sure to leave time for editorial work to integrate each individual contribution into a coherent whole. Not all of this editing needs to be done for the work-in-progress, but it will be important to polish the Week 14 final submissions.
Perform
Final: Presentation (50%)
Your client is proposing a data science investment at next month’s board meeting, and she directs your data science team to prepare a design memo and presentation to persuade the board to greenlight the concept. Time to stretch it out, munch on some user stories, and scrum your way to the finish line!
You will prepare your final in two formats, a write-up and a presentation. You should begin work on your presentation after finalizing the outline of your write-up, because the write-up should be more like the master plan, and the presentation more like the publicity for the project. The write-up should be more formal and precise, the presentation more inviting and conversational. Both have the same goals of compelling the client to invest in your data science design and of keeping relevant stakeholders on your side (or at least not giving them reasons to oppose you!).
How to submit
You should use Google Slides, and you may but are not required to use the slide deck template, though please retain the file naming convention if you use a different format. Try to keep pace with the development of your write-up (see below), that is, you should finish your slides up until Act 1.5, That means finishing Act 1, and getting through half of Act 2. The final deck will be 7-10 slides, so aim for 3-5 slides for this checkpoint.
Save your deck in this folder as a working Google Slides doc and as a PDF of the work-in-progress. Be consistent with your file names–the work-in-progress PDF should be overwritten with the most recent version, so that only file for your team is ever in the submission folder, and the last version is your final submission.
Compose
Final: Design (66%)
Your client is proposing a data science investment at next month’s board meeting, and she directs your data science team to prepare a design memo and presentation to persuade the board to greenlight the concept. Time to stretch it out, munch on some user stories, and scrum your way to the finish line!
Last week you assigned yourselves a new prompt in the form of a memo from your client, and now it’s time to execute on Act 1.5! The \(\frac{1}{2}\) here would be the beginning of your Act 2, which could be a strong curtain leading into your technical solution. Your beginning should cover Act 1 and a curtain, such as asking a research question or introducing your Sonic Blade, that indicates where Act 2 will be heading. Work as far as you want, but a draft of Act 1 should be a minimum achievable goal before live session.
How to submit
Continue replacing boilerplate in the write-up template that you began last week. You should fill in the title, abstract, keywords, Act headings, and then body text for at least Act 1 and half of Act 2.