The following table maps course session dates, lesson topics, references, and content links for DAT-281: Project in Data Analytics
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| DAT-281 | Mon 1-FEB'21 |
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Intro to course
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| DAT-281 | Mon 8-FEB'21 |
2 |
Discussed project management paradigms |
Develop a high-level view of a project management flow |
For 15-Feb'21: Distill your project ideas down to a Statement of Work (SOW, what are you going to do?) to guide the development of your project & document that inquiry question in a evolving project management flow diagram of your design. Get your hands on a dataset of some scale related to your inquiry question, or at least have attempted a search for one Post either in the shared google directory or on your git repository for feedback from peers next week. |
| DAT-281 | Mon 15-FEB'21 |
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Review of project idea seeds
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Continue honing your driving project questions. Create a draft project plan containing key milestone and the threads which interleave to arrive at your core deliverables on schedule. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 22-FEB'21 |
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Collaborative Git
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Students will use git from the command line to create new branches and then use github.com to request inclusion of that branch's commits via a pull requests. Cope with merge conflicts during branch collapse. |
Push a rough project plan to your git repository's remote location. Practice cloning down a peer's repository, creating a change on a unique branch, push that branch, and create an online pull request. |
| DAT-281 | Mon 1-MAR'21 |
5 |
Students will use the git logging tools to successfully navigate a number of collaborative git processes. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 8-MAR'21 |
6 |
Guest SpeakerAbsent Will Walker |
Spring '21 TODOIn preparation for the 15-March, for next week, please prepare and push to a remote git repo a project plan, including your inquiry question, primary data sets, analytical strategy, and milestones with target dates which, if adhered to, would likely guide your work all the way to a completed project. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 15-MAR'21 |
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Project plan peer reviewPrepare for a formal informal sharing of your project plan for feedback. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 22-MAR'21 |
8 |
Peer review of model output(s)Goal: Mock or actual visualization of variables which inform answers to your central inquiry question. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 29-MAR'21 |
- | Spring break: No Class all week! | Renew, rejuvinate, refactor! | Catch up if you're behind. |
| DAT-281 | Mon 5-APR'21 |
9 |
Session RecordingActivity Flow chartingSample activity flow from steve |
Create an activity flow diagram which supports achivement of milestones and includes activity relationships (PMBOK Precedence diagramming method 6.3.2.1) |
Create a draft of your activity sequence, including the milestone(s) to which they contribute. Ideally you have this in a sharable location, such as an image of paper pushed to a git repo or an image export from a drawing application, such as diagrams.net. |
| DAT-281 | Mon 12-APR'21 |
10 |
Review activity flow diagramsBuild activity scheduling facilities to attach to our activities. |
Estimate time requirements for activities to create a realistic milestone achivement timeline. |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 19-APR'21 |
11 |
RecordingProjects UpdateSnappersBrandynSteve |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 26-APR'21 |
12 |
MS Project Tinkering with PaualSession Recording |
Create a project management tool depicting key milestones and progress toward those milestones |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 3-MAY'21 |
13 |
Project Worktime |
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| DAT-281 | Mon 17-MAY'21 |
14 | 7:00pm Start: Final session; final project sharing Work State Goal: Project design and planning doucments specific to your inquiry question which includes 2-5 Key Milestones and activites (2-5 per milestone) which, if completed, will amount to completing the milestones. Pushed to a public-facing git repository, with apporpriate documentation written in markdown files. | Push revised work to your git repository |
