Week 1

Materials

๐Ÿ“• Class slides

๐Ÿ“— TA Office Hours Logistics - Sandy Sum - Sandy Sum, EDS 411 TA & Bren Ph.D. Candidate

๐Ÿ“˜ Client Relations Presentation - Miya Scheble, MEDS Career Development Program Manager

๐Ÿ“– Capstone Guidelines

Schedule

1:00 - 2:00 : Overview of EDS 411, Capstone Project, and DIP

2:00 - 2:30: Client relations workshop - Miya Scheble, Bren School

2:30 - 2:35: BREAK

2:35 - 3:00: Communication roles activity

3:00 - 3:10: BREAK

3:10 - 3:50: Capstone project summary

3:50 - 4:00: Checklist for next class

Upcoming capstone deadlines

To do by next week

๐Ÿค Client meeting

Goals for first client meeting (to be held before next class):

โ˜‘๏ธ Clarify what the objectives are (if you have any questions - know what they are before the meeting)

โ˜‘๏ธ Address any issue with accessing data (determine beforehand what these might be)

โ˜‘๏ธ 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
  • PRO TIP: use the agenda template provided during the Fall quarter.

After meeting: reflect with your team on how it went and what could be improved.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Prepare a flash talk

Prepare 4 slides covering:

  • Slide 1: A cover slide
  • Slide 2: An ultra summarized slide covering what your project will do
  • Slide 3: A brief overview of the datasets youโ€™ll use
  • Slide 4: One graph showing exploratory visualization of your data

Pick a person or two who are ready to do a 3 minute presentation next class Add slides to Week 2 - Flash talks.

Focus on:

  • Avoiding big blocks of text.
  • Seamless transitions between sections, clear, and precise speech.
  • Practice and time it!
  • Listen for every qualifier you use. โ€œKind ofโ€ โ€œsort ofโ€ โ€œI guess.โ€ Avoid these!

Flash talks are the first steps in practicing for the faculty reviews.

๐Ÿ“„ Read

Read the following resources:

โ˜‘๏ธ MEDS Capstone Project Guidelines.

โ˜‘๏ธ Sample DIPs*

โ˜‘๏ธ Ten simple rules to cultivate belonging in collaborative data science research teams

Come prepared with questions about the guidelines and the sample DIPs. The โ€œTen simple rulesโ€ฆโ€ paper will give you a good background for your team management plan (weโ€™ll work on it next week).

*We have reworked the DIP this year to streamline it. So, the sample DIPs from previous years do not completely match the new DIP format. However they will still give you a good idea of the information that will go into it.

๐Ÿ“ฅ Submit

Submit by 5pm on Friday 1/17: Finalize your summary paragraph for Bren website, add to Capstone Summaries. Your advisor must review your summary before submitting it.