Mini Project¶

To prepare for the individual course project, each cohort will collectively work on the selected parts of the mini project while each student will work individually on the other parts. The purpose of this mini project is to practice the skills and techniques that will be needed for the project that each student will complete themselves individually. The data set for this project will be assigned to the cohort as a whole. On three successive classes the cohort, working as a team, will:

understand the abstraction created by the data set
map the structure of the data
identify limitations imposed by the data on the answers to the questions.
understand the social impacts of the project

Each student individually will:

decide on a question to be answered,
write the algorithm to produce visualization(a)s to answer the question,
describe how the visualization(s) answer the question, and
produce a web (.html) page from a Jupyter Notebook of their project
upload the web page and the Jupyter Notebook to Canvas.

Each student in a cohort should identify a different question to be answered and work on the parts of the project related to that question. For example, the code for manipulating the data set and producing the visualization(s) required to answer that question should be the sole responsibility of the cohort member dealing with that question.

The cohort should not organize its work so that different cohort members are each responsible for one of the bullet items above (e.g., one member maps the data, a second member defines the questions, a third member writes the code, etc.). This organization should not be used because it defeats the purpose of preparing each cohort member to perform all of these steps in the final, individual project that follows.