February 7 Introductions & Getting Started
Due: Proposed datasets to work with and project ideas
- Introductions and interests
- Overview of project and administrata
- Expectations for interactions (introducing charters, codes of conduct, and MOUs)
- determine shared interests/ discuss dataset
- Introduce Project Plan
Feb 14 – Project Planning Part I
Due: Project Proposals
- Problem statement –
- Opportunities for research
- Why now?
- Environmental Scan
- Resource Assessment
- Datasets
- Skills inventory
- Technical and physical resources
- Collaborators
- Scope of work
- Project deliverables – various
Feb 21 – Working with Data
Due: Refined proposals, Preliminary Exploration of Datasets
- Explore data
- Data Types
- What questions can you ask?
- Introduction to Ethics
Feb 28 – Project Planning (Stage II)
Due: Revised proposal(s)
- Vote on / Select dataset
- Roles and responsibilities
- Deliverables
- Workplan – [A workplan is an agreed upon list of deliverables, due dates (milestones), and someone responsible for completing the task.]
- Technologies to use
Mar 6 – Project Management
Due: Project Charter
- Milestones, Evaluation, Measuring progress
- Internal Communication
- data management
Mar 13 – Ethics
Mar 20 – Publicity and Outreach
Due: Website, GitHub Repository
March 27 – TBD
Apr 3 – TBD
Apr 10 – SPRING BREAK
Apr 17 – SPRING BREAK
Apr 24 – TBD
May 1 – TBD
May 8 – TBD
May 1 – TBD
May 12 GC Digital Showcase 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Due: Project Launch



