Grading
The Final Project accounts for 40% of your total grade for ISYE 6414.
Grade Breakdown
The Peer Ratings are per student, while the Analysis Plan, Final Report, and Code grades will be assigned to each member of a Group.
No Rubrics
Internally, we will use rubrics to grade all of the Final Project components, but we will not release these to deter gaming the rubric and missing out on the joy of structured but fairly open-ended research.
Useful Guidelines
- Make sure you pattern your Literature Review on those you see in high quality peer-reviewed research papers (which should form the bulk of your citations).
- Have at least 20 citations.
- Each individual analysis must meet the 3d+3d+ requirement (3 datasets from 3 different data sources, joined together), with at least one dataset having a few hundred rows: part of your job is joining data to search for insights.
- You're probably going to want to report performance: you better split between train and test. You'd be even wiser if you're going to pick from amongst the various models you'll build as a group by splitting into train, test and validate sets.
- Make sure you're checking model assumptions.
- Include graphics when they're useful. Everyone likes pretty pictures: appropriate context and utility is what makes them pretty in data analytical paper.