Week 1 Project Design

Get acquainted with the projects, the technology, the workflow, and create a personal development plan for the skills you want to acquire during the course 🧰

Fig. 48 The Turing Way project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807. Weblink: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/_images/project-design.jpg

Tasks

Joint Class Activities

Activity
Title
Date
Intro Welcome to Community-Engaged Data Science Mon, 2 May
Workshop Project Questions and Brainstorming Tue, 3 May
Workshop Meeting with project partners Wed, 4 May
Workshop Project Plan and Kanban Thu, 5 May

Project Specific Activities

Activity
Title
Date
Library trip MPAC library newspaper search Thu, 5 May
Field Trip NECSA/Manoment Project: Sampling Field Trip Fri, 6 May

Optional Morning Tutorials (sign up as part of PDP)

Title
Date
Time
Introduction to the community Tue, 3 May 10.00-11.00 am Harward Center
Personal Development Plan Check-ins Wed, 4 May 4.00-5.00 pm DCS Lounge
RStudio, tidy data and dplyr verbs Thu, 5 May 10.30-12.00 am DCS Lounge
Personal Development Plan Check-ins Thu, 5 May 1.00-2.00 pm DCS Lounge

Assignments

Assignment
Title
Due
Due this week
PDP 01 Personal Development Plan Tue, 3 May, 23:59 EST
TC 01 Team Contract Wed, 4 May, 23:59 EST
PM 01 Project Plan and Kanban Thu, 7 May, 23:59 EST
Due next week
E 01 Ethics Assessment Tue, May 12, 23:59 EST
C 01 Project Presentations Thu, 14 May, 23:59 EST
PDP 02 Personal Development Plan Progress Reflection Fri, 15 May, 23:59 EST

Readings

📄 Course syllabus Required
📖 Planning for Project Design, The Turing Way Required
📄 A beginner’s guide to agile and scrum Required
📄 Project Readings: Check your project page Required