Preparing for the project mockups INFO 4470 John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber March 28, 2011

Elements of project ● Description of problem/question ● Sketch of solution/answer ● Data to be used in solution/answer ● Methodolody used ● Results

Project mockups ● Goal: a preliminary version of the class project ● Should have most of the elements of the final presentation/etc. ● Should have close-to-final methodology ● Need not have final data analysis – can have fake numbers that can provide a hint at the final data ● Should be in the form (possibly not interactive) that the final presentation will have ● If providing a paper, a summary presentation should accompany it

Course project preview ● Update and expand it by Friday, April 1 (Lab 9) ● Assess yourself for each item the progress with respect to the final implementation (0- 100%)

Updated course project template ● Outline ● Should be finalized: (100%) ● Data ● Sources: should be finalized (90-100%) ● Knowledge of quality issues and solutions: >50% ● Statistical methods ● Choice should be final (90-100%) ● Issues may still be present (>50)

Updated course project template ● Visualization, other components ● Choice of visualization tools should be close to finalized (90-100%) ● Actual implementation may still lag (>25%) ● Results ● Some preliminary results (>10%) ● Presentation thereof need not be in final form (graphic, etc.)