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Master on Fundamentals of Data Science: Final Project

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Master on Fundamentals of Data Science: Final Project

Guidelines to Master’s Project Proposal

The Master Project can be individual or a teamwork project of a maximum of 3 students working on the same subject. Projects will naturally be expected to require an effort proportional to the number of team members (300 hours per student). Students may choose a project from a list of suggested projects (see below) or propose one of their own ideas.

Stages of Development of Master’s Project

  • Form a team of 2-3 students if you want to develop a teamwork project.
  • Write a prioritized list of projects.
  • The Master’s Project Coordinator, Laura Igual (ligual@ub.edu) will assign you a project, by looking for a (maybe global) maximum of the function that represents your global preferences.
  • Discuss the research questions, goals, approach you intend to take, methodology, data needed and time plan with your project supervisor.
  • Construct a logical outline for the project. Include analysis steps and expected outcomes.
  • For temwork projects, define a clear role for all members of the group.
  • Fill in details of the project + role definition in a short document (max 2 pages).
  • Hand in this document to your supervisors and start the project development!

The final project delivery must include:

  • all code produced in a GitHub (or similar) software repository.
  • a project report (see the Report Template directory).

See these examples:

Project Assessment

The quality of the projects will be graded by using three sources of information:

  • The delivered information at the end of the project. We will use a “Project Evaluation Rubric” to assign an individual mark to each member of the project.
  • The public presentation of your project. Your presentation should be professional enough to give at a technical conference (e.g. organized approach, prepared slides, a short demo or video if appropriate).

Calendar (2021/2022)

  • Dec 15, 2021: Publication of a list of suggested projects.
  • Jan. 12, 2022: Deadline for sending (form) your project priorities.
  • Jan. 19, 2022: Assignment of projects to students.
  • Feb - Jun 2022: Period of development of your project.
  • Jun 9: Deadline to fill the form with the TFM information.
  • Jun. 30: Limit for final delivery of your project (via Campus Virtual task).
  • Jul. 1-15: Public Presentations.

Master’s Project Report

  • Use the latex report template available in this repository.
  • Every student has to submit an individual report, even for a teamwork project. In this last case, the report should have a different title specific for every member of the teamwork project and some parts can be different depending on the role of the author.
  • For teamwork projects, the report should contain a final appendix where the contribution of each of the team members should be detailed. Each member will be evaluated based on this information.
  • The report should contain:
    • between 45-55 pages for a teamwork project.
    • between 25-35 pages for an individual project.
    • Reports that do not meet these length limits will not be accepted.
  • The report should contain a link to the project Github repository.
  • Delivery should be only digital by Campus Virtual.

Guidelines for the Project Deliveries

Formal requirements for the TFM document:

  • Here you can find the style guide Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts in English which aims to facilitate interuniversity communication and improve the quality of the institutional English-language documents we produce for international readers.

Guidelines for code documentation in GitHub:

  • For the basic structure of your GitHub you can use Cookiecutter
  • You can find Notebook examples here.
  • For non-publicable projects: use private Bitbucket repositories.

Master’s Project Presentation:

  • Presentations will be 20 minutes for individual projects, 30 minutes for projects of 2 students and 40 minutes for projects of 3 students, followed by 10 minuts of questions.