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CMSE495 Data Science Capstone

In-Class Assignment: SCHOLAR Tutorial Review

Agenda (110 Minutes)

TechTalk

Why Email Still matters

Today’s Tech Talk explores the idea that data is a map, not the destination. While understanding your data is an important part of any project, successful teams stay focused on the problem they are trying to solve rather than letting the dataset become the project. We will discuss data discovery, exploratory data analysis (EDA), data schemas, data dictionaries, and data bibliographies as tools for understanding and documenting datasets.

We will also explore how projects can make meaningful progress even when data is not yet available. By defining project goals, identifying information needs, creating schemas, and using synthetic or pilot datasets, teams can begin planning solutions long before the final data arrives. Just as you can plan a trip before you have a complete map, you can often design and prototype a project before obtaining all of the data needed to complete it.

Group SCHOLAR Review

Your group is expected to review all of the tutorials. However, today we will start with just assigning a single tutorial per person. Do the following:

  1. Clone the SCHOLAR repository.
  2. Follow the directions and get your tutorials “working”.
  3. Add “issues” to the git issue list for all things that need to be improved in the tutorial. Make sure the issue is well written and clearly states the file/tutorial that needs fixing. Every student should add at least one issue for that person to get credit. If you can’t find an issue move on to the next tutorial (Hint: we can always make things better).

Getting Credit for this assignment

Each member of the team should author at least one NEW git issue (comments to existing issues do not count). More is better but help each other out and try to make good quality issues that have substance and are not redundant and/or just filler. There is always something that is missing or needs improvement.

NOTE: I realize we are using a lot of jargon. This is normal when you start a new job. Please research anything you don’t understand and talk with your team. Come to your instructor with questions if you can’t figure out something together.