• Collaborative Research Project

• Peer discussion/feedback

• Further work on Collaborative Research Project

Purposes: Pose an interesting research question and try to answer it using data analysis and standard academic practices. Effectively communicate your results to a variety of audiences in a variety of formats.

Deadline:

• Presentation: In-class Monday 2 May

• Website/Paper: 13 May 2016

The project can be thought of as a 'dry run' for your thesis with multiple presentation outputs.

Presentation: 10 minutes maximum. Engagingly present your research question and key findings to a general academic audience (fellow students).

Paper: 5,000 words maximum. Standard academic paper, properly cited laying out your research question, literature review, data, methods, and findings.

Website: An engaging website designed to convey your research to a general audience.

Project total: 50% of your final mark.

• 10% presentation

• 10% website

• 30% paper

As always, you should submit one GitHub repository with all of the materials needed to completely reproduce your data gathering, analysis, and presentation documents.

Note: Because you've had two assignments already to work on parts of the project, I expect high quality work.

Find one other group to be a discussant for your presentation.

The discussants will provide a quick (max 2 minute) critique of your presentation–ideas for things you can improve on your paper–pose questions.

I will have normal office hours every week for the rest of the term.

Please take advantages of this opportunity to improve your final project.

Be prepared.

First: take ~12 minutes to come up with a five minute pitch for your project:

• What is your research question? Why is it interesting?

• What data did you gather/methods did you use?

• What are your results? How do you plan to present these?

• What issue do you still have/questions you want to ask?

Second: Pair with one other group and give your pitch + ask the other pair at least two questions about their project.

Third: Show the other group your GitHub repo. Explain how it is organised. Pick one file and explain what this file does in detail.

Work on your project.

Ask me/other groups questions.