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EDS 411A: MEDS Capstone

Week 10

Instructor: naomi

Email: tague@ucsb.edu

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Today in 411A

1:00 - 1:20: Faculty Review recap, questions, what to turn in this week
1:20 - 2:00: Best Practices for what’s coming…
2:00 - 2:15: Peer & Self Evaluations, EDS 411A Evaluation

Work on DIP

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1 - 1:20: Faculty review recap, questions, what to turn in this week

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Brainstorm

What did you find successful?
What did you find challenging?
What were some common things that came up during reviews that we can all learn from?
What is one thing your group plans to work on / improve that came out of the faculty reviews?

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Moving forward

You decide what bits of the faculty review need to be incorporated into your project (i.e., this is not a line-by-line response to reviewer feedback as in peer review)
Your faculty advisor’s suggestions / recommendations & client needs are most important (they know the most about what you’re doing)
You don’t have to follow up with faculty reviewers unless there is a comment that you want to get more information on because it seems useful for your project, or if they requested you reach out to them

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What you’ll be submitting this quarter

Final Design and Implementation Plan - Due Friday, March 17

Your final Design and Implementation Plan is due to your faculty advisor and client and must be uploaded to Box by Friday, March 17. Professor Tague and I have access to this folder so you don't need to email us.

Upload your Design and Implementation Plan in PDF format with your Capstone Project short name (e.g., Best Capstone Design Implementation Plan.pdf).
You must also email your Design and Implementation Plan to your faculty advisor and client.

Project Repository - Due Friday, March 17

Enter a link to your project repository on this Google sheet. This can be a link to your Capstone project GitHub organization or a specific repository. We recognize this may change as you continue your project, we just want to track where you are at now with this information.

Peer/Self Evaluation - Due Friday, March 17

Each student must complete a Capstone Project Peer & Self Evaluation Form for Winter Quarter. The form is due Friday, March 17.
Upload your evaluation forms to Box and please save your document with your Capstone Project short name and your full name as the file name (e.g., Awesome Capstone Case Emily). Profesor Tague and I also have access to this folder and we can view your forms there.
You must also send your evaluation directly to your faculty advisor.

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Course wrap-up & looking forward

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This quarter: prep & plan.

Design & Implementation Plan (degree requirement): Experience in how clearly articulating goals of a project is both hard and critical. Planning is hard - practice
Faculty Review (degree requirement): Aggregation of different project pieces into a cohesive story, required research storytelling & presentation skills, provided insight into questions about your work.
Project Work: Gained familiarity with data, models, testing, domain expertise, new tools & methods, data management, reading & synthesizing, data viz.
Project Management: running meetings, collaboration, tracking projects, timelines, scoping, tools, presentations, research storytelling, communication, and more!

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Next quarter: deliver.

MEDS requirements:

Deadline	Item
April 2 (Week 2)	Technical Documentation Outline
May 5 (Week 5)	Technical Documentation Draft & Repo
June 2 (Week 9)	Public Presentations (at Bren)
June 9 (Week 10)	Final Project Materials due

While also: continuing to develop your deliverables for your client.

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Design & Implementation Plan:

How you will accomplish objectives.

Complete your client deliverables: Priority.

Technical Documentation:

Here’s our product and how to use it.

Repo: organized, well documented, accessible

Expect overlap, especially in: Background / motivation, summary, solution design, deliverables, testing summary (this will be bulked up as you actually get into testing)

Brainstorm: Where can you minimize redundancy? Allocate-review-allocate-review

Next quarter.