Assignments

Published

December 4, 2022

Please review the Syllabus for more details on our assignments (deliverables) this semester.

Welcome to 431 Survey

Please fill out the Welcome to 431 Survey to help us get to know you a little better.

  • Note that you must log into Google via your CWRU account in order to access the survey.
  • The survey should take 15-20 minutes to complete, and we encourage you to complete it as soon as you can, ideally before our first class.
  • Thanks to those of you who’ve already completed this task.

Main Semester Assignments

During the semester, the assignments include Minute Papers, Labs, Quizzes and Projects, as linked below.

Minute Papers

Minute Paper materials appear at https://github.com/THOMASELOVE/431-minute-2022.

Labs

Instructions for Labs are available at https://github.com/THOMASELOVE/431-labs-2022.

Quizzes

Quiz instructions will appear at https://github.com/THOMASELOVE/431-quizzes-2022.

Deadlines for all Quizzes are in the Course Calendar

Project A

The Project A website, with all instructions, is now available.

Project A is the first of two real data science projects you’ll be doing this semester. For Project A, Professor Love has provided a lot of information but also much less flexibility than you’ll have in Project B. In particular, you’ll each be working with part of the same data set (the County Health Rankings 2022 data.) The three key analytic tasks you’ll complete are:

  1. Visualizing and modeling the relationship between a quantitative outcome and a quantitative predictor.
  2. Visualizing and modeling the relationship between a quantitative outcome and a categorical predictor (with 2-5 levels).
  3. Visualizing and modeling the relationship between a quantitative outcome and a quantitative predictor, after adjustment for the state in which the county is located

You can work alone, or with one other person on Project A. If you work as a pair, you create one project together, and each of you receive the same grade.

There are two sets of deliverables for Project A, and the deadlines for each are in the Course Calendar:

  1. A Project A Proposal which requires you to answer a few specific questions after creating a clean data set (a “tibble” with 200-400 rows “counties” and a specific set of variables you will choose from the available options.) You can (and should) do this work in September.
  2. A Project A Final Submission, including three elements: (a) a report in R Markdown, and knitted to HTML, (b) a short video which highlights some of your key findings from the report, (c) a self-evaluation Google Form, which you’ll complete after submitting the report and video. You will do this work in October.

Again, detailed instructions for Project A are now found at the Project A website.

Project B

The Project B website, with all instructions, is now available. I strongly encourage you not to worry about Project B until you’ve completed Project A in late October.

All Project B deadlines are in the Calendar. Project B involves the completion of four tasks, which you’ll start working on in early November:

  1. You will complete a Registration Form to obtain my approval for your plan, let me know if you’re working with a partner, and schedule your oral presentation.
  2. You (and your partner, if applicable) will present your project sometime between 12-12 and 12-15 to Dr. Love in his office.
  3. You will build R Markdown and HTML reports describing your work.
  4. Finally, you will complete a Self-Evaluation form, as you did in Project A.

Again, detailed Project B instructions are found at the Project B website.