Project Tasks

Author

Gabriel I. Cook

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Overview

In order to complete the project, there are different components that can be easily broken up and delegated among team members. During weekly team meetings, team members can discuss accomplishments and progress, and check off tasks. Provided many of you have never taken on such tasks and thought about how to break tasks into smaller bite-sized pieces, a general framework maybe be helpful for you.

Large-Scale Tasks

Some tasks have to be performed in a sequential order (e.g., all Git files) but others can be integrated throughout other tasks. For example, describing the motivation of the project, explaining the data and variables used, describing how you prepared the data, presenting findings, etc. are all part of the Report Drafting process. Components can be, and should be, worked on in piecemeal so that they are all not delayed until the end.

  1. Determine a public data set (some fun suggestions provided) to use for telling a story with data

  2. Review and understand the structure of the data and identify a story/theme and relevant variables

  3. Outline the project plan and develop a timeline (consider how timeline maps onto course topics)

  4. Read data, clean and prepare raw data or data for any summaries

  5. Create visualization scripts for plots (or tables if you really need them, though not covered in the course)

  6. Add, commit, and push your project contributions regularly

  7. Merge/integrate collaborator contribution files (e.g., into your branch, into test branch)

  8. Build/render website regularly

  9. Finalize website build